East Germany's last communist premier, Hans Modrow, dies aged 95: Hans Modrow, who as the last communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany's hard-left Die…
“Last night Hans Modrow left us at the age of 95. With this, our party loses an important personality,” the party, successor to the East German Communist Party, said.
Modrow said he would help turn East Germany into a democracy when he became prime minister of a communist-led transition government on November 13 1989, four days after the opening of the Berlin Wall that divided East and West Berlin for 28 years. The previous communist leadership was forced out as protesters across East Germany demanded democracy and freedom, echoing calls for change across Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe after Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union.
Modrow announced the first and only free election in what was known as the German Democratic Republic in March 1990, though it resulted in him ceasing to be prime minister.
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