Gottfried Bombach (1919–2010) was a macroeconomist at the forefront of a new generation of academics who reconnected Germany to the international research frontier of economics after World War II. A graduate of the University of Kiel, where his advisor was Erich Schneider, he wrote widely on the core subjects of macroeconomics, mostly from the vantage point of Keynesian theory. His analyses of the interplay between economic growth, income distribution, inflation and employment, both during the period of rapid post-war growth and after the productivity slowdown of the 1970s, were particularly influential. Also, Bombach was an advisor to government, first in Germany, later in Switzerland. This paper reviews some of his major contributions.