Hans Modrow, the last Communist prime minister of East Germany, has died at the age of 95, Germany’s Die Linke party says.
oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party said on Saturday.
Although he carried out reforms, he was accused by opponents of trying to delay political change and reunification, which took place in October 1990. He was also criticized for trying to rebrand rather than abolishModrow was found guilty in 1993 of electoral fraud in a municipal election in May 1989 but was not jailed and said the charges were politically motivated.
“In foreign relations, under the GDR, the Cold War did not turn into a hot war,” he said. “And after the violence of World War Two, we succeeded in making friends with Poland.”Modrow was born in 1928 in what was then the German town of Jasenitz — now Jasienica in Poland — and trained as a machinist.
Modrow was a functionary in the Free German Youth, the movement that nearly all East German youngsters joined, and rose through the ruling Socialist Unity Party to become regional party boss in Dresden from 1973 to 1989. He also served in the East German parliament for more than three decades.Modrow became East Germany’s de facto leader after Egon Krenz resigned as SED leader on Dec. 5, 1990, leaving Modrow holding the highest state post.
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East Germany's last communist leader dies at 95BERLIN (AP) — Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany's last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country's first and only free election, has died. He was 95. Modrow died early Saturday, the Left party parliamentary group tweeted.
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