An independent 2024 German-language review credits 'spontane Ordnung' as a defining theme of Röpke's Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft, traced to its 1937 first edition

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A book note on Forum Freie Gesellschaft, a German ordoliberal/classical-liberal archive site, by Michael von Prollius, reviews the 13th edition (1994) of Wilhelm Röpke's Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft while dating the work to its "Erstauflage 1937" (first edition, 1937). It states that the book's themes "gehen... mit der spontanen Ordnung und der Koordination der Wirtschaftsaktivitäten als zentrale Aspekte einher" ("come together with spontaneous order and the coordination of economic activities as central aspects").

This is a named, dated, independent characterization of the book — written in German about the German-language text, with no apparent connection to the Bladel/Jacobs English-language priority dispute documented in claim-bladel-2005-disputes-polanyi-priority-argues-ropke-used-spontaneous-order-1937 — that treats "spontane Ordnung" as one of the book's defining concepts rather than an isolated phrase. It corroborates the centrality of the theme and its attribution to the work as a whole (credited from the 1937 edition forward), but it quotes a paraphrase of the theme rather than the specific 1937-vs-1961 wording at issue in claim-ropke-paratext-confirms-1937-first-edition-lineage-not-unrevised-wording, so it supports without independently settling that note's open dating question.