Word: gysi
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...European power. Worry is widespread in both Bonn and East Berlin that East Germans' mounting anger at the Communist regime, coupled with emotional longings for "one German * fatherland," could result in violent demonstrations that would paralyze the government. The new leader of the East German Communist Party, Gregor Gysi, last week appealed to the U.S. to play a vigorous role in Europe, mostly to dampen West German pressure for absorbing his country...
Meeting at East Berlin's Dynamo Football Club Gymnasium, the 2,714 delegates overwhelmingly nominated as party leader Gregor Gysi, a reformist lawyer who at 41 becomes the youngest Communist boss in Eastern Europe. Only three months ago, Gysi came under withering attack by hard-liners for representing the opposition group New Forum in its bid for legal status. Now, said Gysi after winning election, the Communists in East Germany will be merely "one party among others...
...Party. After serving as party leader for 47 days, Egon Krenz resigned, along with the entire Politburo and Central Committee. The party's emergency congress then selected Gregor Gysi to replace Krenz...
Party spokesperson Brigitte Zimmermann, briefing reporters on a closed door-session of the party's emergency congress, said Gysi was the only candidate for the post...
...Gysi has spoken out for sweeping political and economic reform and acted as lawyer for the opposition group, New Forum. He has served on the interim party leadership and heads a committee investigating corruption allegations against the ousted leadership...