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The former Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Harald Ringstorff, is dead. He died on November 19 at the age of 81, the State Chancellery announced on Monday in Schwerin.
"We mourn a great Prime Minister and a great person," said Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD).
For ten years, from November 1998 to October 2008, and thus longer than anyone before and after him, Ringstorff was at the head of the country.
“With his great ties to his homeland, his down-to-earth, calm and at the same time hands-on manner and his love of the Low German language, he excellently filled the office of Prime Minister,” said Schwesig in praise of her predecessor.
In the political turning point of 1989, Ringstorff was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP).
From 1990 to 2003 he was state chairman of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.