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2 unusual facts about Lothar Späth


Lothar Späth

In 1989, he sponsored the publication of an art portfolio called Kinderstern, featuring original drawings by Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Max Bill, Heinz Mack, Keith Haring and Imi Knoebel, to benefit children cancer patients.

After leaving politics, Späth headed the Jenoptik company, one of the few former Eastern German state owned enterprises, who survived the transformation into a market economy in a united Germany.



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