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    Erich Honecker

    Former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party

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  1. 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.

  2. 5 days ago · Erich Honecker was a communist official who, as first secretary of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED), was East Germany’s leader from 1971 until he fell from power in 1989 in the wake of the democratic reforms sweeping eastern.

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  3. Jul 29, 2017 · From the throne to jail: Erich Honecker was hunted, homeless, exiled and jailed in his last years of life. The former East German strongman fell with his state. He was arrested on July 29,1992.

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  5. Learn about the political career of Erich Honecker, who became the leader of the GDR after Walter Ulbricht and pursued a policy of détente with West Germany and the West. Explore the challenges and failures of his foreign, economic and social policies, and the role of the Stasi and the peace movement in his downfall.

  6. 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.

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  7. A biography of Erich Honecker, the leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1971 to 1989. Learn about his rise to power, his policies, his role in the Berlin Wall, and his downfall and exile.

  8. May 30, 1994 · Erich Honecker, the stolid Marxist who ruled East Germany for 18 years until a people's uprising swept him aside in October 1989, died yesterday in Chile. He was 81.

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