The last GDR Prime Minister of the state party SED, Hans Modrow, is dead.
He died on Saturday night at the age of 95, according to the Left Party in the Bundestag.
“Our party loses an important personality with this,” said parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch and former parliamentary group leader Gregor Gysi.
From November 1989 to April 1990, Modrow controlled the fortunes of the GDR. After the fall of the Wall, he negotiated the first steps toward rapprochement with the federal government. The longtime SED functionary and later PDS and Left Party politician was considered a convinced socialist who had kept a small piece of critical distance to the all-powerful SED during the GDR era. In the 1970s, Modrow was therefore sent away from the power center in Berlin to become the first district secretary in the provinces of Dresden.
After the fall of the Wall, this qualified him for managerial positions in the renewing SED. Just four days later, on November 13, 1989, Modrow was elected Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers to succeed Willi Stoph – for around 150 days.
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