Editing Hans Modrow (section)

{{Short description|German politician (1928–2023)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Hans Modrow
| image               = File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1117-431, Hans Modrow, Dr..jpg
| imagesize           = 
| caption             = Modrow in 1989
| office              = [[Council of Ministers of East Germany#Chairmen|Chairman]] of the<br />[[Council of Ministers of East Germany|Council of Ministers]]
| 1blankname          = {{nowrap|[[Leadership of East Germany#Heads of state|Head of state]]}}
| 1namedata           = {{Plainlist|
* [[Egon Krenz]]
* [[Manfred Gerlach]]
* [[Sabine Bergmann-Pohl]] (interim)
}}
| term_start          = 13 November 1989
| term_end            = 12 April 1990
| deputy1             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Christa Luft]]
* [[Peter Moreth]]
* Lothar de Maizière
}}
| predecessor1        = [[Willi Stoph]]
| successor1          = [[Lothar de Maizière]]<br />(as Minister-President)
| office2             = First Secretary of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]]<br />in [[Bezirk Dresden]]
|1blankname2        = {{nowrap|Second Secretary}}
|1namedata2         = {{unbulleted list|Lothar Stammnitz}}
| term_start2         = 3 October 1973
| term_end2           = 15 November 1989
| predecessor2        = [[Werner Krolikowski]]
| successor2          = Hansjoachim Hahn
| office3             = Head of the [[Departments of the SED Central Committee#Agitation|Department for Agitation]] of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany#Central Committee|Central Committee]]
|1blankname3        = {{nowrap|[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany#Secretariat of the Central Committee|Secretary]]}}
|1namedata3         = {{unbulleted list|Werner Lamberz}}
| deputy4             = {{ubl|Eberhard Fensch|Hans-Joachim Kobert}}
| term_start3         = 19 June 1971
| term_end3           = 2 October 1973
| predecessor4        = [[Werner Lamberz]]
| successor4          = [[Heinz Geggel]]
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|parliament5   = European
|constituency_MP5 = [[Germany (European Parliament constituency)|Germany]]
|term_start5   = [[1999 European Parliament election in Germany|20 July 1999]]
|term_end5     = [[2004 European Parliament election in Germany|20 July 2004]]
| predecessor5 = ''multi-member district''
| successor5 = ''multi-member district''
|office6       = [[Member of the German Bundestag|Member]] of the [[Bundestag]] <br /> for [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]<br />([[Volkskammer]]; 1990)
| term_start6         = [[1990 German federal election#Campaign|3 October 1990]]
| term_end6           = [[1994 German federal election|10 November 1994]]
| predecessor6        = [[German reunification|''Constituency established'']]
| successor6          = ''multi-member district''
| office7             = Member of the [[Volkskammer]] <br /> for [[Bezirk Neubrandenburg|Neubrandenburg]]<br />(Dresden-Süd, Dresden-West, Dresden-Mitte;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gvoon.de/art/dokumente/1986/volkskammer-ddr-9-wahlperiode-1986-1990/pdf/volkskammer-ddr-9-wahlperiode-1986-1990-seite_029.pdf |title=''Volkskammer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1986–1990'', Seite 29 |last=Schmidt |first=Arthur |date= |website=gvoon.de |publisher= |access-date=2023-07-24 |quote=}}</ref> 1976–1990)<br />([[East Berlin|Berlin]]; 1957–1976)
| term_start7         = [[1990 East German general election|5 April 1990]]
| term_end7           = 2 October 1990
| predecessor7        = ''Constituency established''
| successor7          = [[German reunification|''Constituency abolished'']]
| term_start8         = 11 December 1957
| term_end8           = 5 April 1990
| predecessor8        = Karl-Heinz Kniestedt
| successor8          = ''Constituency abolished''{{Collapsed infobox section end}}}}
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1928|01|27|df=y}}
| birth_place         = Jasenitz, Pölitz, [[Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)|Pomerania]], Prussia<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance -->, Germany<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance --> {{avoid wrap|(now [[Jasienica, Police|Jasienica]], Poland)}}
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2023|02|10|1928|01|27|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Berlin]], Germany
| party               = [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] (2007–2023)
| otherparty          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]] {{nowrap|(1989–2007)}}
* [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]] {{nowrap|(1949–1989)}}
}}
| spouse              = {{marriage|Annemarie Straubing|2003}}
| children            = 2
| residence           = 
| occupation          = {{Flatlist|
* Economist
* [[Locksmith]]
* Politician}}
| alma_mater          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Parteihochschule Karl Marx|Party Academy Karl Marx]]
* ''Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin''
* [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] (Dr. rer. oec.)
}}
| module2             = {{collapsible list
| title = Central institution membership
| bullets = on
| 1989: Full member,<br />[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany#Politburo of the Central Committee|Politburo of the Central Committee]]
| 1967–1989: Full member,<br />[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany#Central Committee|Central Committee]]
| 1958–1967: Candidate member,<br />[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany#Central Committee|Central Committee]]
}}
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{{collapsible list
| title = Other offices held
| bullets = on
| 1967–1973: Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda, [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]] in [[East Berlin|Berlin]]
| 1961–1967: First Secretary,<br />[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]] in [[Köpenick#History|Berlin-Köpenick]]
| 1958: Chairman,<br />[[Free German Youth]] in the [[Volkskammer]]
| 1953–1961: First Secretary,<br />[[Free German Youth]] in [[East Berlin|Berlin]]
}}
| module3          = 
'''[[Lists of political office-holders in East Germany#Overview|Leader of East Germany]]'''
{{flatlist|
* {{big|'''←'''}} [[Egon Krenz|Krenz]]
* [[Lothar de Maizière|de Maizière]]{{big|'''→'''}}
}}
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| title1              = 
}}

'''Hans Modrow''' ({{IPA|de|ˈhans ˈmoːdʁo}}; 27 January 1928 – 10 February 2023) was a German politician best known as the last communist [[premier of East Germany]].

Coming into office amidst the [[Peaceful Revolution]], he was the ''de facto'' leader of East Germany through the winter of 1989-90. He presided over a [[transitional government]], paving the way to [[1990 East German general election|the first and only free elections in East Germany]]. [[Modrow government|His cabinet]] was the last over which the SED presided, as well as the first to include opposition members.

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 (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]] (PDS)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,655350,00.html|title=West German Secret Service Opens GDR Files|work=Der Spiegel|date=16 October 2009|access-date=18 February 2010}}</ref> and was the president of the "council of elders" of the [[Left Party (Germany)|Left Party]] from 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.maz-online.de/Brandenburg/Frueherer-DDR-Ministerpraesident-Hans-Modrow-diskutiert-mit-Potsdamern |title=Modrow: "Die Gefahr von Krieg war nach 1945 noch nie so hoch wie jetzt" |newspaper=Märkische Allgemeine |date=22 February 2019}}</ref>