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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.
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker ( German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) [7] 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. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ...
Oct 2, 2023 · Died: Uwe Holmer, Pastor Who Forgave a Communist Dictator. When the East German government collapsed, the evangelical minister welcomed Erich Honecker into his home for 10 weeks. Daniel...
Oct 29, 2014 · Fall of the Berlin Wall: History catches up with Erich Honecker - the East German leader who praised the Iron Curtain and claimed it prevented a Third World War | The Independent | The...
- Tony Paterson
- The End of The Honecker Era
- The Criminal Case Before The Berlin District Court
- Honecker’s Last Speech
- History on Trial
For thirteen years, Erich Honecker was the most powerful man in the GDR, in fact he was that for eighteen years in the SED. His era came to an end no less quickly than surprisingly. At the centre of power in July 1989, Honecker was still fairly invulnerable, when suddenly at a meeting of the government heads of the Warsaw Pact states, he had to cut...
Preliminary proceedings against Honecker for abuse of authority and embezzlement were already initiated in East Berlin in 1989, which were expanded in January 1990 to include treason and other crimes against the state. When in the summer of 1990 protocols of the National Defence Council from the year 1974 under its chairman Erich Honecker were foun...
Erich Honecker might have been a great many things, but a great speaker he was not. He mumbled monotonously through his often long-winded public addresses in wooden, party-functionary German. But according to his lawyer Wolff, he had worked on this speech since he was first taken into custody. Honecker gave Wolff an initial typescript on 19 October...
The legal historian Uwe Wesel was certain shortly before the end of the proceedings that it was a historical trial, but was not certain how it should be assessed in the future. One must search far back in German history to find a head of state who was put on trial: in 1268, there was Conrad of Hohenstaufen, who was brought to justice and beheaded. ...
The East German politburo and leader Erich Honecker, however, categorically ruled out reforms in the GDR. The power of (Western) media. Unsurprisingly, GDR television did not cover Leipzig's...
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18 October. The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, has been forced to step down as leader of the country. After 18 years in power he will be replaced by Egon Krenz, currently the...
