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Honecker was married three times. After being liberated from prison in 1945, he married the prison warden Charlotte Schanuel (née Drost), nine years his senior, on 23 December 1946. She died suddenly from a brain tumour in June 1947. Details of this marriage were not revealed until 2003, well after his death.
Honecker exchanged wedding vows with his first wife, prison warden Charlotte Schanuel (née Drost), on December 23, 1946. She passed away after a fight with a brain tumour in June 1947. Before Charlotte passed away, Honecker had already begun a relationship with the Free German Youth official Edith Baumann.
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May 3, 2022 · Following the German reunification he successfully evaded prosecution for human rights abuses committed under his regime, finally settling down with his family in Chile in 1993, dying the following year from liver cancer. Erich Honecker (* 25. August 1912 in Neunkirchen (Saar); † 29. Mai 1994 in Santiago de Chile) war ein deutscher ...
- Neunkirchen, Saarland
- Charlotte Honecker, Margot Honecker
- Saarland
- August 25, 1912
Jan 19, 2003 · Dezember 1946 in Berlin die Justiz-Wachtmeisterin Charlotte Schanuel, geborene Drost. Stuhler zufolge war Honecker ihr im Berliner Gefängnis Barnimstraße begegnet, in dem er als NS-Häftling...
Jan 26, 2024 · After being liberated from prison in 1945 he married the prison warden Charlotte Schanuel (née Drost), nine years his senior, on 23 December 1946. She died suddenly from a brain tumour in June 1947. Details of this marriage were not revealed until 2003, well after his death.
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and Chairman of the National Defence Council; in 1976, he replaced Willi Stoph as Chairman of the State Council, the official head of ...
