Lothar de Maizière is a German former politician of the Christian Democratic Union. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this office during the final months before German reunification. Subsequently he briefly served as a minister in the new government of the unified Federal Republic of Germany until his past as a Stasi informant was revealed.
- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, musician, jurist
- Position held
- Prime Minister of East Germany, member of the German Bundestag, member of the Volkskammer, Minister for Foreign Affairs (German Democratic Republic)
- Citizenship
- Germany, East Germany
- Born
