Frieder Lippmann

Frieder Lippmann (3 September 1936 – 18 September 2023) was a German politician (SPD). He was a member of the East German national parliament (Volkstag) and of the regional parliament (Landtag) of Thuringia.

Life Provenance and early years Frieder Lippmann was born into a working-class family at Dorfchemnitz, a small town in the Eastern Ore Mountain region ("Osterzgebirge"), a short distance to the north of the German frontier with what had recently become known as the Czechoslovak Sudetenland. His grandfather had been a committed member of the Social Democratic Party but had died when Lippmann was only ten, leaving the boy to find his own way to an interest in politics only many years later. Elections were held on 14 October 1990: Frieder Lippmann was one of the 21 SPD members elected to membership of the 88 seat legislature. Leadership of the SPD in the Landtag passed to Heiko Gentzel, a man who later described Frieder Lippmann as "the best human being he ever came across in the entire party" ("der sei vom Menschlichen her das Tollste, was ihm in der SPD je begegnet ist."). The respect was presumably mutual, since between 1999 and 2004 Lippmann spoke for the party on economic policy in the Landtag. He died on 18 September 2023, at the age of 87.