* 1912 – Erich Honecker, German politician ( d. 1994 )

Castro explained this to Erich Honecker, communist dictator of East Germany, by saying that Siad Barre was " above all a chauvinist ".

In the late summer of 1984, the Soviet Union also prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.

Erich Honecker and guests of honor like Mikhail Gorbachev celebrate the 40th ( and last ) anniversary of the socialist regime of the German Democratic Republic on 7 October 1989.

The transition to Erich Honecker ( General Secretary from 1971 to 1989 ) led to a change in the direction of national policy and efforts by the Politburo to pay closer attention to the grievances of the proletariat.

The two countries exchanged permanent representatives in 1974, and, in 1987, East Germany's leader Erich Honecker paid an official state visit to West Germany.

Unable to stop the growing civil unrest, Erich Honecker was forced to resign in October, and on 9 November, East German authorities unexpectedly allowed East German citizens to enter West Berlin and West Germany.

For example, in 1984, the Soviet Union prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.

The revolts culminated with the revolt in East Germany against the Stalinist regime of Erich Honecker and demands for the Berlin Wall to be torn down.

The grassroots democracy movement that forced the dismissal of East German head of state Erich Honecker in 1989 also empowered a younger generation of reform politicians in East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party who looked to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika as their model for political change.

These developments greatly disturbed hardline communists such as the East German leader Erich Honecker, who condemned the end of the traditional " socialist unity " of the Soviet bloc and appealed to Moscow to rein in the Hungarians.

Wollweber resigned in 1957 after clashes with Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, and was succeeded by his deputy, Erich Mielke.

File: BerlinWall01b. jpg | Mural on the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery featuring Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker riding together in a Trabant ( Spring 2002 ).

* In 1971, Erich Honecker was chosen to lead East Germany, a role he would fill for the whole of the 1970s and 1980s.

** Erich Honecker, East German leader ( d. 1994 )

** The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems, and is succeeded by Egon Krenz.

Erich Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994 ) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well after Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976.

Erich Honecker, watched by his mentor Walter Ulbricht at the 5th Party Congress, 1958

This change from the strict rule of Baron von Stumm to French military occupation provided the backdrop for what Wilhelm Honecker understood as proletarian exploitation, and introduced young Erich to communism.

During a National People's Army exercise in southern East Germany, 1960: Ivan Yakubovsky, Otto Grotewohl, Erich Honecker, Heinz Hoffmann

Erich Honecker, 1974

* Honecker, Erich.

* CNN Cold War – Profile: Erich Honecker

In 1987, Kohl received East German leader Erich Honecker-the first ever visit by an East German head of state to West Germany.

Bahro and his supporters were attacked by the East German state security organization Stasi, headed by Erich Mielke, for his writings, which had laid the theoretical foundation of a leftist opposition to the ruling SED party and its dependent allies, and which promoted new and changed parties.

Brandt's successor Helmut Schmidt with East German party leader Erich Honecker, Döllnsee 1981.

Gauleiter Erich Koch protracted the evacuation of the German civilian population until the Eastern Front approached the East Prussian border in 1944.

Among those attending were Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Franz von Papen and Erich Koch, East Prussia's Nazi governor.

Erich Honecker ( East Germany | GDR, left ) and Helmut Schmidt ( West Germany | FRG ) at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Helsinki in 1975

Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) Helmut Schmidt, Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) Erich Honecker, U. S. president Gerald Ford and Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky

The East German leadership was in disarray following the resignation of party chieftain Erich Honecker in October.

The modern set of rules was published on 29 October 1917 by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz, and Erich Konigh from Germany.

Although the Social Democrats showed strong support for the expellees especially under Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer, social democrats in more recent decades have traditionally been less supportive — and it was under Willy Brandt that West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse line as factual as part of his Ostpolitik.

* Erich Ollenhauer ( 1901 – 1963 ), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1952-1963.

* 1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.

Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen ( November 24, 1909, Greifswald, Germany – August 4, 1945, Prague, Czechoslovakia ) was a German mathematician and logician.

Erich Johann Albert Raeder ( 24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960 ) was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II.

1937 ; libretto by composer, adapted from " Lulu " plays of Frank Wedekind under # Germany | Germany above ); Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Die tote Stadt ( The Dead City ; libretto by composer and Paul Schott ; actor Fritz banters and sings in the guise and costume of Pierrot — an ironic counterpart to the lovelorn main character, Paul ).

Hindenburg's deputy, Chief Quartermaster-General Erich Ludendorff, soon acquired almost dictatorial power in Germany.

After the battle Erich von Falkenhayn reasoned that there is no more possibility for Germany to win the war.

The Beer Hall Putsch ( also known as the Munich Putsch or ) was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Nonetheless, he had a long friendship with German-Jewish musicologist, composer and refugee Erich Katz, who fled Nazi Germany in 1939.

In the semi-finals, Sweden continued their strong run as they defeated West Germany 3 – 1 in a vicious game that saw the German player Erich Juskowiak sent off ( the first ever German player to be sent off in an international game ) and German team captain Fritz Walter injured, which further weakened the German team ( substitutes were first allowed in the 1970 FIFA World Cup ).

General Erich Ludendorff, Generalquartiermeister and joint head ( with von Hindenburg ) of Germany's war effort, stated that Russian communist elements working against the Tsar had betrayed Kitchener's travel plans to Germany.