Hans F. Sennholz (/ˈzɛnhɔːlts/; German: [ˈzɛnhɔlts]; 3 February 1922 – 23 June 2007) was a German-born American Austrian School economist and prolific author who studied under Ludwig von Mises.
He was drafted into the Luftwaffe during World War II and became the pilot of a Messerschmitt Bf 109, earning the Iron Cross for valor from his engagements in Norway, France, and Russia.
[3] In 1964, William Harrison, a factory worker in Jonesboro, Arkansas, found the journal on the bank of Bay Ditch, a drainage artery bordering 'old' Highway 63.
[5] The journal told the story of its unidentified author's life as a Luftwaffe pilot, being shot down in north Africa and his subsequent time as a German POW in Arkansas.
Willie Weischhoff read the story, which mentioned him by name, and wrote to his friend and fellow German POW, Hans Sennholz, a professor of economics at Grove City College.
As Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, these two brilliant nineteenth-century French economists, who were also masters of economic rhetoric, wrote with such clarity and style that their work was misjudged by their British inferiors as 'shallow' and 'superficial'.