Erich Honecker ... 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 …

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 …

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 …

Despite Honecker’s efforts to reform the country’s economic policy under the slogan “unity of social and economic policy,” supply shortages and the collapse of state finances became …

Honecker emerged as an ambitious political player and became the shadowy mastermind behind the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a crucial moment in twentieth-century history.

This biographical project focuses on two areas of research: the importance of biographies in East German power relations and the role Honecker played in the GDR’s long-term political stability …

Erich Honecker was a prominent East German politician who served as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and the de facto leader of East Germany from 1971 until the fall of the …