Premier Seems to Hold Reins in E. Germany
Premier Hans Modrow emerged today as East Germany’s Communist leader and told a 25-member committee to salvage what it can after the entire party leadership quit in disgrace.
Modrow, the 61-year-old reformer and former Dresden party chief, led East Germany’s delegation at the Warsaw Pact summit that began in Moscow today, the official ADN news agency reported.
Also attending the summit are Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer and Egon Krenz, who resigned as party chief Sunday along with the party’s 10-member ruling Politburo and its entire 163-member Central Committee.
Modrow, elected premier Nov. 13 by a Parliament casting off fidelity to the discredited Communists, now appears in charge of day-to-day affairs.
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