Beside the academic influence on the course of German economic history in and immediately after World War II, ordoliberal economists were continuously engaged in giving policy advice to the Nazi regime but were also, especially in the 1940s, in contact with the “conservative opposition” to that regime. During the 1940s the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erwin von Beckerath” served as a meeting point for ordoliberals, their main objective being to discuss and develop the economic order for postwar Germany.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 623