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
Honecker congratulates Wilhelm Pieck on his election as the first GDR President in 1949.
Attending the Volkskammer in 1951. During this period she was having an affair with Erich Honecker.
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Orders, decorations and medals of the German Democratic Republic until 1990, here "Order-Karl-Marks", order on bar.
Cinta de la Orden Augusto César Sandino en grado Batalla de San Jacinto.
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An official portrait taken in July 1967 when Honecker was 40 years old.
Minister of Education, Margot Honecker listens as Assistant Secretary for Culture and Sport Roland Weissig addresses the 11th Council of State meeting in 1968.
In 1976, the Honeckers attend the banquet-ball for the opening of the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin.
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.