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...helped create the archives may feel the most devastating effects. Revelations of collaboration have already ruined dozens of individuals, including most of the political figures who rose to prominence as the old regime sought to reform. Among them were Ibrahim Bohme, a founder of the eastern Social Democratic Party; Lothar de Maiziere, the first democratically elected East German Prime Minister; and Wolfgang Schnur, founding leader of Democratic Awakening, a once burgeoning political party that collapsed after Schnur's exposure as an informant. Gregor Gysi, head of the Party of Democratic Socialism, which succeeded the old Communist Party, is under suspicion...
Bespectacled and goateed, Lothar de Maiziere always looked less like a politician than a classical musician. In fact, before he became East Germany's first -- and last -- freely elected head of government in April 1990, De Maiziere was once a professional violist. After a nerve ailment ended his orchestral career, he took to defending dissidents in court against the Communists who then ruled the East. Last week he resigned as Minister Without Portfolio from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government after he was labeled with another vocation: informant...
Influence, but not necessarily power. Like Niezabitowska, 40, East Germany's Sylvia Schultz is, at 34, a woman who chose to wield her influence through the man she served. In her case it was East Germany's last Prime Minister, Lothar de Maiziere. She was his chief of staff, the aide who ran the P.M.'s office, advised him on every issue and traveled at his side wherever he went...
...were describing the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in Moscow last week by the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and the two Germanys. As Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looked on, West German Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher and East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere affixed their signatures, followed by the foreign ministers of the four Allied powers. Then the seven men marked the occasion by shaking hands and drinking a champagne toast...
...German leaders, for their part, have pointed out that however rough the transition may be, their country's economic prospects remain brighter than those of Central European nations like Poland and Czechoslovakia. "If we show courage and behave responsibly, we will be out of the woods soon," Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere said in Halle last week...