Edith Baumann
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Edith Baumann was a German politician. She was a co-founder and official of the Free German Youth, the youth organisation that after 1946 became the youth wing of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity
Baumann in 1946
Edith Baumann (centre-left) and Erich Honecker (right) applauding at the Congress of Young Activists of the "Treuhandbetrieb" Weißensee, 13 November 1948
Margot Honecker
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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 Democr
Edith Baumann
…view Erich Honecker took of matters at the time or subsequently, for Edith their marriage was based on love. However Klaus Herde, a close colleague of the young woman who later became Erich Honcker's third wife, has suggested that Honecker married Edith out of a sense not of love but of duty, when he realised she was…
Honecker in 1986
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.
An official portrait taken in July 1967, when Honecker was 40 years old