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Ex-Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf
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Saxony's former Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf is dead. As the State Chancellery announced, the CDU politician died on Thursday.
He was 91 years old.
Biedenkopf was the first Saxon Prime Minister after reunification and ruled the state from 1990 to 2002. Born in Ludwigshafen and with a doctorate in law, he was considered a close confidante of the former CDU chairman and ex-Federal Chancellor Helmut Hohl.
In the first Saxon state election after the fall of the Wall, he won an absolute majority for the CDU.
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