Werner Leich
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Leich in 1989 | |
| Born | 31 January 1927 Mühlhausen, Thuringia, Germany |
| Died | 17 December 2022 (aged 95) Gotha, Thuringia, Germany |
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Werner Leich (31 January 1927 – 17 December 2022) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor. From 1978 to 1992, he was the longest-serving Landesbischof of the Lutheran Church in Thuringia during the era of the German Democratic Republic, and led the state church’s independence from the regime.