Lothar de Maizière
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Lothar de Maizière is a German former politician of the Christian Democratic Union. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this
de Maizière in the aftermath of the 1990 East German general election
General elections were held in East Germany on 18 March 1990. These were the first free elections held in the region since the turbulent Weimar days of 1932 and would become the only truly democratic
Lothar de Maizière
…SED). He was elected party chairman in November of that year and became one of the leading figures in the transition to democracy. In the historic March 1990 election, the first and only free election in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the CDU and its allies emerged victorious, positioning Maizière to take on…
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