Minister F R Volksbildung (Ddr) - Margot Honecker, Paul Wandel, Fritz Lange, Alfred Lemmnitz, Elisabeth Zaisser, Hans-Heinz Emons, Helga Labs (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Margot Honecker n e Feist (born April 17, 1927) is a former Communist politician, who was a prominent member of the political elite in East Germany. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of Education ("Volksbildung") of the GDR. Known for her hardline political views and hated among much of the population, Honecker was responsible for the enactment of the "Uniform Socialist Education System" in 1965 and mandatory military training in schools. She was also responsible for the forced adoption of children of jailed dissidents or people who attempted to flee from East Germany, which meant that their children were taken away from them and given to communist couples. She was married to Erich Honecker, the head of state of the GDR. Following the downfall of the communist regime in 1989, she fled to Russia with her husband to avoid criminal charges, but was expelled by the Yeltsin government and subsequently emigrated to Chile. Born in Halle, Margot Feist was the daughter of a shoemaker and a factory worker. After graduating from elementary school, she became a member of the Bund Deutscher M del from 1938 to 1945. Her mother died in 1940 when Margot was 13 years old. Her brother, Manfred Feist, was the department leader for foreign information within the central committee of the SED. Honecker congratulates Wilhelm Pieck on his election as the first GDR President in 1949.In 1945 Margot Feist joined the KPD. A year later, with the coerced merger of the SPD and KPD, she became a member of East Germany's new state party, the SED, working as a shorthand typist with the land board of directors FDGB in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1946 she became a member of the secretariat for the board of directors of the FDJ in Halle. She then began a meteoric rise through various departments. In 1947 she was the departmental leader of the FDJ's culture and education in the land board of directors and in 1948 secretary of t...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d