Hans Sennholz

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Hans F. Sennholz (born February 3, 1922 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is an economist from the Austrian school of Economics who studied under Ludwig von Mises. He taught economics at Grove City College from 1956 to 1992, having risen to the role of department chair before his departure. After he retired he became a private consultant. From 1992 to 1997, Sennholz also served as president of the Foundation for Economic Education.

Fellow Austrian Joseph Salerno has notably praised Sennholz as an under-appreciated member of the Austrian school who,

...writes so clearly on such a broad range of topics that he is in danger of suffering the same fate as Say and Bastiat. 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."