Margot Honecker

East German politician (1927-2016) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 89

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Honecker congratulates Wilhelm Pieck on his election as the first GDR President in 1949.

Margot Feist (right) in the Volkskammer, 1951. During this period, she was having an affair with Erich Honecker.

Awards

Order of Friendship of Peoples1977

Hero of Labour1969

Order of Karl Marx

Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

Order of Augusto César Sandino

Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío

Family

Margot Honecker

Partners

Spouse Erich Honecker

Child Sonja Honecker

Sibling Manfred Feist

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Margot Honecker was an East German politician and influential member of the country's Communist government until 1989. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of National Education of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). She was married to Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party from 1971 to 1989 and concurrently from 1976 to 1989 the country's head of state.

Country

Germany

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