Today, 128 years ago, on February 4, 1897 (Calendar 3 January 1897) was born German politician Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard, German politician and economist, ¡°Father of Social Market Economy¡±, who served as the Minister of Economy and Labour of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963, and as the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic from 1963 to 1966.