Margot Honecker
Margot Honecker (née Feist; 17 April 1927 – 6 May 2016) was an East German politician. She was a member of the East German communist party and the East German regime until 1989. She was born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.
Personal life
From 1963 through 1989, she was "Minister of People's Education" (Ministerin für Volksbildung) of the GDR. She was married to Erich Honecker, the dictator of East Germany (1971 – 1989) from 1953 until his death of liver cancer in 1994.[1] She and her husband were exiled in Chile during the 1990s.[2]
Honecker died at her home while in exile in Santiago, Chile on 6 May 2016, aged 89.[3]
Margot Honecker Media
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Honecker congratulates Wilhelm Pieck on his election as the first GDR President in 1949.
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Margot Feist (right) in the Volkskammer, 1951. During this period, she was having an affair with Erich Honecker.
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Patriotic Order of Merit GDR ribbon bar gold
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Cinta de la Orden Augusto César Sandino en grado Batalla de San Jacinto.
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NI Ribbon bar of the Grand Cross of the Order of Rubén Dario
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Order friendship of peoples rib
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An official portrait taken in July 1967, when Honecker was 40 years old
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Minister of Education Margot Honecker listens as Assistant Secretary for Culture and Sport Roland Weissig addresses the 11th Council of State meeting in 1968.
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In 1976, the Honeckers attend the banquet-ball for the opening of the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin.
Erich Honecker and his wife take a walk with their daughter Sonja and grandson Roberto around the Waldsiedlung in 1977.
References
- ↑ "The Exile Factor: Wives of Deposed Dictators". The Independent. 22 January 2011.
- ↑ "Margot Honecker, Widow Of East German Dictator, Defends Regime In Shocking Interview". The Huffington Post.
- ↑ "Muere en Chile Margot Honecker, la mujer fuerte de la Alemania comunista". 24horas.cl. 6 May 2016. http://www.24horas.cl/internacional/muere-en-chile-margot-honecker-la-mujer-fuerte-de-la-alemania-comunista-2008225. Retrieved 6 May 2016.