Roger Köppel receives Ludwig Erhard Prize
Roger Köppel, publisher and editor-in-chief of *Die Weltwoche*, is receiving the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism. The award comes with a prize of 10,000 euros and will be presented in Berlin.
The prize was donated by former German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. The prize is awarded annually to journalistic or academic contributions that contribute to the promotion of liberalism and the social market economy, as Weltwoche Verlags AG announced on Tuesday. Roger Köppel is the fourth Swiss to receive the Ludwig Erhard Prize after Willy Linder, Gerhard Schwarz and Thomas Straubhaar. The second winner this year is the German business journalist Karen Horn.
