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   Who was Erich Honecker?

   • Erich Honecker replacing Walter Ulbricht as first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany, 1971. He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1946 and was one of the prime movers behind the fusion of the Communist and Social Democratic parties in East Germany into the newly formed SED.

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   Was Erich Honecker a communist?

   • 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 Honecker became a communist at 10 years old.

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   Was Erich Honecker proud of the Berlin Wall?

   • 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 caused his downfall. No other German politician was more closely linked to the Berlin Wall than Honecker.

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   How did Erich Honecker die?

   • On May 29, 1994, Erich Honecker, once the most powerful man in East Germany, died in exile in Santiago. 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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   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.

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   May 25, 2024 · 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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   Jul 29, 2017 · 07/29/2017. 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...

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   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. His doctor said the...

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   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...

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   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...

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    Erich Honecker (August 25, 1912 – May 29, 1994) was an East German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany) from 1971 until 1989. Having joined the Communist Party as a youth, Honecker was arrested and imprisoned during the Third Reich.