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Katharina Schmidt, born in 1992, was a research assistant at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 2017 to 2021 and a member of the DFG-funded project "Die Medienbiografien der bundesdeutschen Kanzler und der Kanzlerin". From 2011 to 2017, she studied history and communication science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with stays abroad in Maastricht and Washington D.C. She received her doctorate in 2023 with a thesis on the miracle man Ludwig Erhard. She was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's doctoral program. In April 2024, the book Der Wundermann Ludwig Erhard. Myth, Self-Promotion and Public Relations in the series Öffentlichkeit und Geschichte.