Former German Democratic Republic Prime Minister Hans Modrow has died at the age of 95. This happened on the night of February 11, according to the Left Party on the official website.
Modrow was the last secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the penultimate head of the GDR. He advocated a gradual unification with the FRG – for this he agreed to hold the first free general elections.
“Hans Modrow wrote history with his work, without him the peaceful course of 1989 would not have been possible”says in obituary.
Hans Modrow was born in 1928 in Prussia. During the war he managed to visit the militia and in Soviet captivity. In the 1950s he studied at the Moscow Central Komsomol School. Upon arrival in the GDR, he was engaged in agitation and propaganda, from 1973 to 1989 he headed the district committee of the SED in Dresden.
After the reunification of Germany, Modrow continued his political career. In the 90s, he was elected to the Bundestag several times, at the beginning of the 2000s he rose to the position of a member of the European Parliament.