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Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (German pronunciation: [ˈeːgɔn ˈkʁɛnts]; born 19 March 1937) is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during the Revolutions of 1989.
- Socialist Unity Party, (1955–1990)
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Egon Krenz, 1984 Unterschrift von Egon Krenz. Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (* 19. März 1937 in Kolberg, Pommern) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Politiker der SED. 1983 in das Politbüro des ZKs der SED berufen, war er vom 18.
Nov 7, 2019 · Egon Krenz, left, with Mikhail Gorbachev in early November 1989 | AFP via Getty Images Krenz, who thanks to his relative youth was the only member of the GDR’s senior ranks to have grown up under communism, says he was convinced the country could survive with open borders by engaging more with the West.
Egon Krenz, Honecker's deputy up to that point, succeeded him as head of state and party leader. Krenz, however, also misjudged the political situation: using the term Wende (which literally means “turning point” but here refers to political change in the GDR), he promised only certain changes of course, not the complete revamping of the ...
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Nov 8, 2019 · Egon Krenz was president of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic. Ines Schwerdtner is an author, political analyst, and co-host of the podcast halbzehn.fm. She lives in Berlin. Loren Balhorn is a contributing editor at Jacobin and co-editor, together with Bhaskar Sunkara, of Jacobin: Die Anthologie (Suhrkamp, 2018).
Oct 9, 2019 · Egon Krenz still takes an interest in politics. And still supports Moscow. "After weak presidents like Gorbachev and Yeltsin, it is a great fortune for Russia that it has [President Vladimir] Putin."
Other articles where Egon Krenz is discussed: Germany: The reunification of Germany: …him with another hard-line communist, Egon Krenz. Under Krenz the Politburo sought to eliminate the embarrassment occasioned by the flow of refugees to the West through Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. On the evening of November 9, Günter Schabowski, a communist functionary, mistakenly announced at a ...
