The National Defense Council of the German Democratic Republic was created in 1960 as the supreme state body of the German Democratic Republic in charge of national defense matters, including mobiliza
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Erich Honecker
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Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of Gen
National Defence Council (East Germany)
…leading political force in the SED, as he became the NVR's first chairman, even though Wilhelm Pieck was still president of the GDR at the time. Upon Erich Honecker's rise to power in 1971, he replaced Ulbricht as chairman of the NVR. Egon Krenz became chairman of the NVR on 24 October 1989 following Honecker's…
Official portrait, 1976
Honecker's childhood home in Wiebelskirchen
Honecker, founder of FDJ, 1946
Honecker, watched by his mentor Walter Ulbricht at the Party's 5th congress, 1958