Max Seydewitz was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 politician

Politician

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 (SPD

Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

, SAPD and SED

Socialist Unity Party of Germany

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a communist political party with a Marxist-Leninist ideology...

) and Minister-President

Minister-President

A minister-president is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails, who presides over the council of ministers...

 Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

 in East Germany).

Born in Forst (Lausitz), Seydewitz was the oldest oldest former Minister-President of Germany from November 26, 1985 to May 5, 1991 preceded by Hans Ehard

Hans Ehard

Hans Ehard was a German lawyer and politician, a member of the Christian Social Union party.-Life:...

 and succeeded by Bruno Diekmann

Bruno Diekmann

Bruno Diekmann was a German politician from Kiel and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein ....

. If you only count the Ministers-President of the GDR he was oldest from August 1981 to October 8, 1991; preceded by Karl Steinhoff

Karl Steinhoff

Karl Steinhoff was a Minister-President of the German state of Brandenburg, then part of East Germany, and later served as East Germany's Minister of the Interior....

 and succeeded by Werner Bruschke

Werner Bruschke

Werner Bruschke was an East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from August 13, 1949 until the state was abolished on July 23, 1952.From 1933 he worked as tobacco goods dealer and later an insurance agent...

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Seydewitz died in 1987 in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

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