REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz/File PhotoBERLIN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany's hard-left Die Linke party said on Saturday.
With this, our party loses an important personality," the party, successor to the East German Communist Party, said in a statement.
Modrow saw himself as a reformer who had wanted to change the communist party from the inside and make it more democratic.
He also served in the East German parliament for more than three decades.
Modrow became East Germany's de facto leader after Egon Krenz resigned as SED leader on Dec. 5, 1990, leaving Modrow holding the highest state post.