* 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

* Honecker, Erich.

* CNN Cold War – Profile: Erich Honecker

* 1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer ( d. 1974 )

* Neu, Erich ( 1974 ) Der Anitta Text, ( StBoT 18 ), Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.

Emil Erich Kästner () ( 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974 ) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.

The two German states exchanged permanent representatives in 1974, and, in 1987, East German head of state Erich Honecker paid an official visit to West Germany.

" In 1974, Erich Honecker, as Chairman of the GDR's National Defence Council, ordered: " Firearms are to be ruthlessly used in the event of attempts to break through the border, and the comrades who have successfully used their firearms are to be commended.

In The Last Generation of the Roman Republic ( 1974 ), Erich S. Gruen offered an effective opposing point of view, arguing that the traditional view of the Republic's decay is not actually supported by the objective evidence.

Lars Werner ( right ) with Erich Honecker, 1974

* Gruen, Erich S: The Last Generation of the Roman Republic ( University of California Press, 1974 ; reprinted 1994 with new introduction ) paperback ISBN 0-520-20153-1

* Interview with Erich von Daniken, Playboy, August 1974.

* Erich Schmid, Horst Ziegelmann, The quantum mechanical three-body problem, University of California, 1974

* Erich Walter Sternberg ( 1891 – 1974 ), a composer

Erich Neu, Der Anitta-Text ( 1974 )

Subsequent notable acting credits include: Up The Creek ( 1958 ); Studio Four ( 1962 ); Colditz ( 1974 ); Secret Army ( 1977 ); Z-Cars ( 1978 ); Play for Today ( 1981 ); Auf Wiedersehen, Pet ( 1984 ), and Shine on Harvey Moon ( 1982 ), where he played the Austrian Jew, Erich Gottlieb.