Politician

Margot Honecker

1927 - 2016

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Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Margot Honecker is the 4,822nd most popular politician (down from 4,421st in 2024), the 1,257th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,203rd in 2019) and the 364th 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

Among politicians, Margot Honecker ranks 4,822 out of 19,576Before 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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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Margot Honecker ranks 79Before 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 85Before 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 1,257 out of NaNBefore 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).

Among Politicians In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Margot Honecker ranks 364Before 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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