* 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 Germany )

** 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

* CNN Cold War – Profile: Erich Honecker

Honecker was pressured to resign from office and the new government committed itself to reunification with West Germany.

Honecker faced a growing crisis at home, with massive anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig and other East German cities.

Following the definite end of the Cold War, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes and was ousted by the party in late 1989 and removed from power.

Honecker was born on Max-Braun-Straße in Neunkirchen, now Saarland, as the son of Wilhelm Honecker, a coal miner and political activist, who in 1905 had married Caroline Catharina Weidenhof.

At the end of the war, Honecker resumed activity in the party under leader Walter Ulbricht, and, in 1946, became one of the first members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED ), which was formed by the merger of the KPD and the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.

Honecker was a candidate member for the secretariat of the Central Committee in 1950 ; by 1958, he had become a full member of the Politbüro.

In 1961, Honecker, as the Central Committee secretary for security matters, was in charge of the building of the Berlin Wall.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

The Frankfurt years were particularly noteworthy for his performance of Berg's Wozzek soon after the Berlin premiere under Erich Kleiber, and the world premiere of Schonberg's Von heute auf morgen.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* Jacoby, Erich H. Agrarian unrest in Southeast Asia ( 1949 )

* 1929 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler ( d. 1997 )

* 1925 – Erich Göstl, German soldier ( d. 1990 )

All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

* 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot ( d. 1993 )

* 1918 – Erich Löwenhardt, German pilot ( b. 1897 )

The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin.

* 1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander ( d. 1960 )

* 1897 – Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I ( d. 1918 )

An entire group of working architects, including Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut and Hans Poelzig, turned away from fanciful experimentation, and turned toward rational, functional, sometimes standardized building.

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

The main evidence of Liddell Hart's deceit and " tendentious " report of history can be found in his letters to the German Generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, as well as relatives and associates of Erwin Rommel.

* Manstein, Erich von, and Anthony G. Powell.

For π-electron systems, this was the Hückel method proposed by Erich Hückel, and for all valence electron systems, the extended Hückel method proposed by Roald Hoffmann.

February 1968 saw the premiere of The Light in the Wilderness for baritone solo, choir, organ, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel, and Brubeck improvising on certain themes within.