The leadership renewal within the SED continues. The regions
Erfurt, Halle and Karl-Marx-Stadt (aka Chemnitz) elected
new regional SED leaders. In Chemnitz, Norbert Kertscher replaces
Siegfried Lorenz, who was only elected a few days ago. In Erfurt,
Herbert Kroker replaces Gerhard Müller, and in Halle, Roland Claus
replaced Hans-Joachim Böhme, who was known as a socialist hardliner.
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