"Tino Antoni Schwierzina (30 May 1927, Königshütte (now Chorzów, Poland) – 29 December 2003, Berlin) was an East German lawyer who became a politician. Between May ...
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1990 and January 1991 he served as the first and last freely elected mayor of East Berlin. His term of office was dominated by the fusion of the two halves of Berlin which had been politically (and increasingly also, till 1989, physically) divided since before 1949. By some criteria Tino Schwierzina was also the last mayor of East Berlin ahead of reunification." - (en.wikipedia.org 29.01.2020)