Egon Krenz
German politician, communist leader of East Germany · Germany · Politicians · Born 1937 · age 89
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Born 19 March 1937, Egon Krenz rose through the Socialist Unity Party ranks to become Honecker's deputy from 1984, a loyal apparatus man in a system already cracking. When mass protests forced Honecker out in October 1989, Krenz took over as General Secretary - but the regime was past saving. The Wall came down in November. The party surrendered its monopoly on power shortly after, and Krenz resigned before the year ended. Expelled from the party's successor in January 1990, he was convicted of manslaughter in 2000 for his role in the old regime and served until 2003. He's lived since in the small Baltic town of Dierhagen, one of two surviving Eastern Bloc General Secretaries from that vanished world.
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