Lothar de Maizière
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Lothar de Maizière [də mɛˈzjɛʀ] (born 2 March 1940) is a German conservative politician who served as the first and only democratically elected Prime Minister of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) in 1990.
He was born in Nordhausen and studied viola at the College of Music "Hanns Eisler" in East Berlin from 1959 to 1965. He used to be in the Berlin Symphony Orchestra before he went on to study law (distance learning) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 1969 to 1975.
In 1990 he was elected to the East German GDR Volkskammer as a member of the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany), in the first and only free elections the East German regime ever held. He then became the successor to Hans Modrow as Prime Minister of East Germany and held this position from April 12 until October 2, 1990 - on October 3rd, the East German state was reunified with the Federal Republic of Germany (from 1949 to 1990, the FRG was coloquially referred to as West Germany in English).
After German reunification he was appointed Minister for Special Affairs in the CDU government of Helmut Kohl, until his resignation in 1991.
He belongs to a noble family who, as Huguenots, had fled France for asylum in Prussia in the late 17th century. He is a son of the lawyer Clement de Maizière. His uncle Ulrich de Maizière was Inspector General of the German Armed Forces and his cousin Thomas de Maizière was minister in the state of Saxony and became Head of the Federal Chancellery (Chef des Bundeskanzleramtes und Minister für besondere Aufgaben) in November 2005.
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