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Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
Painted in 1990, it has become one of the best known pieces of Berlin Wall graffiti art. The painting depicts Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss, reproducing a photograph taken in 1979 during the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic .
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Oct 29, 2014 · But Erich Honecker was proud of the Berlin Wall. East Germany’s last effective leader not only built it. He sang its praises and claimed it prevented a Third World War. Yet in the end it...
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May 25, 2024 · In 1961 he was put in charge of building the Berlin Wall. His influence in the SED grew rapidly, and in 1967 he was designated as the successor to the East German leader, Walter Ulbricht. He became leader of the SED in 1971 and chairman of the Council of State in 1976, thus heading both party and government.
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Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was a long serving socialist politician and the ruler of East Germany between 1971 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Oct 19, 1989 · Under Walter Ulbricht, it was Honecker who supervised the work of building the Berlin Wall. Opinion-forming Communists in the GDR say their life was harder before the Wall because they had to...
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May 30, 1994 · Erich Honecker, the former East German Communist leader who built the Cold War’s most chilling monument, the infamous Berlin Wall, died of liver cancer Sunday at his home in exile here. He...
