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Handelsblatt reported that Hubert Aiwanger, Bavaria’s economics minister and deputy minister-president, had died at the age of 55. The report said the death was confirmed by government circles in Bavaria.
Aiwanger was identified by Handelsblatt as a politician of the Freie Wähler and the party’s leader. He held senior roles in the Bavarian state government, including economics minister and deputy minister-president.
Handelsblatt also reported that politicians reacted with shock and issued condolences after news of Aiwanger’s death. The supplied reports do not name the official or office behind the confirmation.
The available material does not state the cause, time or exact location of death. All three supplied reports were published by Handelsblatt, leaving the account without independent corroboration from another publication organization in the evidence provided.