KARL SCHIRDEWAN, FORMER TOP OFFICIAL IN EAST GERMANY.(News/National/International)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: August 4, 1998 | Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

Karl Schirdewan, a communist imprisoned by the Nazis for treason who became a top official in East Germany before falling out of favor with hard-line Stalinists, is dead at age 91.

Mr. Schirdewan, who had been ill for some time, died July 15 in a hospital in Potsdam, just outside Berlin, said Baerbel Ritter, a spokeswoman for the party of former East German communists.

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