Erich Honecker

Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker
	Honecker in May 1976
General Secretar o the Central Committee o the Socialist Unity Pairty o Germany
	In office; 3 Mey 1971 – 18 October 1989
Precedit bi	Walter Ulbricht
Succeedit bi	Egon Krenz
Chairman o the State Cooncil o the German Democratic Republic
	In office; 29 October 1976 – 18 October 1989
Precedit bi	Willi Stoph
Succeedit bi	Egon Krenz
Chairman o the Naitional Defense Cooncil o East Germany
	In office; 1971–1989
Precedit bi	Walter Ulbricht
Succeedit bi	Egon Krenz
Personal details
Born	25 August 1912; Neunkirchen, German Empire
Dee'd	29 Mey 1994 (aged 81); Santiago, Chile
Naitionality	German
Poleetical pairty	KPD (1922–1946); SED (1946–1989); KPD (1990–1994)
Spoose(s)	Charlotte Schanuel (m. 1945; d. 1947); Edith Baumann (m. 1950; div. 1953); Margot Feist (m. 1953)
Bairns	2
Profession	Politeecian
Religion	atheists
Signatur

Erich Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 Mey 1994) wis a German politeecian who, as the General Secretar o the Socialist Unity Pairty, led the German Democratic Republic frae 1971 till the weeks precedin the faw o the Berlin Waw in 1989.