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Richard Schüller died in the capital of the United States in 1972, shortly before his 102nd birthday.
Washington was established as the permanent seat of the federal government by the Residence Act of 1790, laid out in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and first occupied by Congress in 1800. In the twentieth century the city became the centre of the US federal apparatus and the seat of international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Several thinkers of the Austrian School worked here in that capacity: Felix Somary was an adviser to the US War Department from 1941 to 1943, Stephanie Braun worked as an economist at the State Department from 1944 to 1947, and Paul Rosenstein-Rodan was an economic adviser to the World Bank from 1947 to 1953. In 1977 Murray Rothbard co-founded the Cato Institute, which was later moved to Washington. From 1971 Gottfried Haberler served as a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the free-market think tank founded in 1938, and died in the city in 1995. It was here that Friedrich August von Hayek received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.
