Luise Erhard

Luise Erhard ( Lotter; formerly Schuster; 18 April 1893 – 9 July 1975) was a German economist and the wife of Ludwig Erhard, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Biography Luise Lotter was born in Langenzenn and later moved to Fürth; she lived in the same neighborhood as her future husband, Ludwig Erhard, and was friends with his sister. In 1914, she married Friedrich Schuster, a lawyer, but he was killed a year later while serving in the First World War. She reencountered Erhard while studying business management and accounting in Nuremberg in 1919, and they married in 1923. Luise had a daughter from her first marriage, Eleanore, and had a second daughter, Elizabeth, with Erhard.

Although she was an accomplished economist in her own right, Luise Erhard placed her career on hold to support her husband's political career.