Christian Fuehrer, Pastor Who Led GDR Revolt, Dies at 71
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Christian Fuehrer, the Leipzig pastor who rallied East Germans to resist the injustice of the former communist system in a series of peaceful protests before reunification in 1990, has died. He was 71.
Fuehrer, who had suffered from a serious lung disease, died yesterday after an emergency admission to the University Hospital Leipzig, according to public broadcaster MDR in the state of Saxony.