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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.
Erich Honecker (born August 25, 1912, Neunkirchen, Germany—died May 29, 1994, Chile) 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 ...
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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 on...
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This short documentary describes the political career of Erich Honecker, who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as First Secretary of the SED on May 3, 1971, and later also became head of state of the German Democratic Republic. Honecker’s ascent to power was supported by CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, who had become concerned about Ulbricht ...
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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 978-0717805617Oct 29, 2015 · Erich Honecker was head of state of the DDR from 1971 to 1989 and was responsible for numerous deaths during his time in office. The article looks at the political career from Honecker's rise to his fall.
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. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and Chairman of the National Defence Council; in 1976, he replaced Willi Stoph as ...
