Hans Modrow, the last chancellor of former communist East Germany, has died at the age of 95, the Die Linke party announced on the 11th.
Agence France-Presse reported that Modelo was born on January 27, 1928 in Pomerania (Pomerania, located in present-day Poland). He served as chancellor from November 1989 (four days following the fall of the Berlin Wall) to April 1990. Although Modelo never abandoned communist ideology, he has always been regarded as a reformer, like Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.
In 1990, Modelo’s government set up an agency to assist East Germany’s transition to a market economy. The law that bears his name enables home and farm owners to purchase the land on which their properties stand.
After German reunification, Modelo became a member of the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, and served in the European Parliament. He later criticized the reunification of Germany as “too hasty” and that East Germany had already lost.
