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Margot Honecker

1927 - 2016

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Margot Honecker (née Feist; 17 April 1927 – 6 May 2016) 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 (Ministerin für Volksbildung) 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. Margot Honecker was widely referred to as the "Purple Witch" ("Lila Hexe" in German) for her tinted hair and hardline Stalinist views. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margot Honecker is the 4,823rd most popular politician (down from 4,426th in 2019), the 1,256th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,203rd in 2019) and the 365th most popular German Politician.

Margot Honecker was the wife of the former East German leader Erich Honecker. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was convicted of murder and sentenced to six years in prison for her role in the shooting deaths of East Germans who attempted to cross the border into West Germany.

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Among politicians, Margot Honecker ranks 4,823 out of 19,576. Before her are Yasovarman I, Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Choudhry Rahmat Ali, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Otto Georg Thierack, and Achila II. After her are Otto, Duke of Austria, Ziusudra, Hetepheres II, Álvaro Colom, Franz Mehring, and Xin Zhui.

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Among people born in 1927, Margot Honecker ranks 79. Before her are Enzo Bearzot, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Herbert Blomstedt, Juan Almeida Bosque, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, and César Milstein. After her are Ibrahim Ferrer, Lee Grant, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Victor Wong, Robert Noyce, and Jean-Claude Pascal. Among people deceased in 2016, Margot Honecker ranks 85. Before her are Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Garry Marshall, Michel Butor, Chyna, and Keith Emerson. After her are Thomas Schelling, Melvin Laird, Edgar Mitchell, Michal Kováč, Kigeli V of Rwanda, and Toots Thielemans.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margot Honecker ranks 1,256 out of 7,253. Before her are Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (1874), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Lothar de Maizière (1940), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601), and Otto Georg Thierack (1889). After her are Wolfgang von Trips (1928), Joachim Sauer (1949), Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658), Karl von Habsburg (1961), John Rabe (1882), and Leo Strauss (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Margot Honecker ranks 365. Before her are William, Duke of Nassau (1792), Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (1874), Lothar de Maizière (1940), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601), and Otto Georg Thierack (1889). After her are Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658), Karl von Habsburg (1961), John Rabe (1882), Alexander Gauland (1941), Christian Wulff (1959), and Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484).

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