10 February 2023(2023-02-10) (aged 95) Berlin, Germany
Political party
The Left (2007–2023)
Other political affiliations
Party of Democratic Socialism (1989–2007)
Socialist Unity Party (1949–1989)
Spouse
Annemarie Straubing
(m. 2003)
Children
2
Alma mater
Party Academy Karl Marx
Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin (Dr. rer. oec.)
Occupation
Economist
Locksmith
Politician
Central institution membership
1989: Full member, Politburo of the Central Committee
1967–1989: Full member, Central Committee
1958–1967: Candidate member, Central Committee
Other offices held
1967–1973: Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda, Socialist Unity Party in Berlin
1961–1967: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Berlin-Köpenick
1958: Chairman, Free German Youth in the Volkskammer
1953–1961: First Secretary, Free German Youth in Berlin
Leader of East Germany
← Krenz
de Maizière→
Hans Modrow (German pronunciation:[ˈhansˈmoːdʁo]; 27 January 1928 – 10 February 2023) was a German politician best known as the last communist premier of East Germany.
Taking office in the middle of the Peaceful Revolution, he was the de facto leader of the country for much of the winter of 1989 and 1990. He was a transitional figure, paving the way to the first and only free elections in East Germany and including many opposition politicians in his cabinet.
After the end of Communist rule and reunification of Germany, he was convicted of electoral fraud and perjury by the Dresden District Court in 1995, on the basis that he had been the Socialist Unity Party (SED) official nominally in charge of the electoral process. He was later convicted of the first charge and was given a nine-month suspended sentence. One of the few high-ranking former SED officials to not have been expelled, he was the honorary chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)[2] and was the president of the "council of elders" of the Left Party from 2007.[3]
^Schmidt, Arthur. "Volkskammer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1986–1990, Seite 29" (PDF). gvoon.de. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
^"West German Secret Service Opens GDR Files". Der Spiegel. 16 October 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
^"Modrow: "Die Gefahr von Krieg war nach 1945 noch nie so hoch wie jetzt"". Märkische Allgemeine. 22 February 2019.
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