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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 ...
Erich Honecker. Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was a long-serving socialist politician and the ruler of East Germany between 1971 and its collapse in 1989. The son of a coal miner from the Saar region, as a child Honecker witnessed the mistreatment and exploitation of his father and other miners. He was just 10 years old when he joined communist ...
Jul 25, 2014 · The Honecker Bunker (photograph by Ciarán Fahey) Buried under sand and rubble in a nondescript forest north of Berlin lies a massive Cold War treasure with its secrets sealed shut, locked up and ...
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In 1961, Honecker was in charge of the construction of the Berlin Wall. In 1971, he initiated a political power struggle that led, with Soviet support, to himself becoming the new leader, replacing Walter Ulbricht as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party. In 1976, he also became Chairman of the Council of State (Staatsratsvorsitzender). Un...
After the GDR was dissolved in October 1990, Honecker remained in a Soviet military hospital near Berlin, before later fleeing with Margot Honecker to Moscow, trying to avoid prosecution over Cold War crimes he was accused of by the unified German government, specifically involving the deaths of 192 East Germans who tried to escape from East German...
Honecker married Edith Baumann (1909-1973) in 1950, and divorced her in 1953. They had a daughter, Erika (b. 1950). In 1953, he married Margot Feist and they remained married until his death (in official publications of the GDR the dates are stated differently, intended to hide the extra-marital birth of their daughter). They had a daughter, Sonja,...
"The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed." (Berlin, January 19, 1989)
The apparent success of the East German economy under Honecker as a socialist paradise proved a myth following re-unification. The cost to the former West German state in supporting the East has been estimated as 1.5 trillion dollars, and resulted in a slump in the German economy. Honecker presented an image to his nation and to the world as a man ...
Barnett, Thomas P. M. Romanian and East German Policies in the Third World: Comparing the Strategies of Ceaușescu and Honecker. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992. ISBN 978-0275941178Childs, David. Honecker's Germany. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985. ISBN 978-0043540312Honecker, Erich. From My Life. Leaders of the world. Oxford: Pergamon, 1981. ISBN 978-0080245324Honecker, Erich. The German Democratic Republic, Pillar of Peace and Socialism. New York: International Publishers, 1979. ISBN 978-0717805617The fight to preserve Cold War history continues and via a simple monthly donation, you will give me the ammunition to keep this podcast on the air. You’ll become part of our community and get a sought-after CWC coaster as a thank you and you’ll bask in the warm glow of knowing you are helping to preserve Cold War history.
HONECKER, ERICH (1912–1994) East German politician. Erich Honecker presided over both the flowering and the demise of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). His career was emblematic of the Communists who ruled the various states of the Soviet bloc after World War II. Honecker was born into a politically active, working-class family in the ...
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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 was 81.
