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Date of death: September 2006
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- born in Bitterfeld, Germany
- received best education during a difficult period of German history
- worked as a professor of German history in Potsdam
-worked as a GDR diplomat in Moscow
-had a difficult relationship with his wife who was an internationally acclaimed Chihuahua breeder

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