She was education minister in the GDR between 1963 and 1989 and the wife of Erich Honecker.
Margot Honecker was born in Halle an der Salle in 1927, joined the Nazi youth organisation, Bund Deutsche Mädel (BDM) and in 1945 became a member of the Communist Party (KPD).
As a 15-year-old girl she met Erich Honecker, whom she later married.
She was critical of Gorbatchow and Solidarity in Poland. Held fast to her Communist beliefs and argued that those who were shot while attmpeting to leave the GDR should never have attempted to escape.
She was not the favourite person of many teahcers in the GDR and was indeed ridiculed by the ever-growing opposition to the East German State.
Some years ago she gave an interview to German television in which she expressed her regret for the demise of the GDR.
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