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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margot Honecker has received more than 405,460 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Margot Honecker is the 4,028th most popular politician (down from 3,848th in 2019), the 1,112th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,064th in 2019) and the 330th 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 4,028 out of 15,577. Before her are Álvaro Obregón, Victoriano Huerta, Clovis III, Pausanias of Orestis, Prem Tinsulanonda, and Lothar de Maizière. After her are Christos Sartzetakis, Isser Harel, Artur Rasizade, Khalil Sultan, James I, Count of La Marche, and Piast the Wheelwright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Margot Honecker ranks 66. Before her are Raúl Alfonsín, Leszek Kołakowski, Romano Mussolini, F. Sherwood Rowland, Abdul Halim of Kedah, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki. After her are Herbert Blomstedt, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Vernon L. Smith, Narciso Yepes, Kurt Masur, and Marvin Minsky. Among people deceased in 2016, Margot Honecker ranks 67. Before her are Patricio Aylwin, Vesna Vulović, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Sonia Rykiel, Ahmed Zewail, and Toots Thielemans. After her are Michel Tournier, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Gabriele Amorth, Keith Emerson, Queen Anne of Romania, and Iolanda Balaș.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margot Honecker ranks 1,112 out of 6,142. Before her are Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), Konrad Witz (1400), Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), and Lothar de Maizière (1940). After her are Max Klinger (1857), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Rudolf Diels (1900), Charles I of Württemberg (1823), Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (1229), and Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Margot Honecker ranks 330. Before her are Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Erwin Piscator (1893), Otto Georg Thierack (1889), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311), and Lothar de Maizière (1940). After her are Rudolf Diels (1900), Charles I of Württemberg (1823), Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), and Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670).

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