Edith Baumann
East German politician (1909–1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edith Baumann (1 August 1909 – 7 April 1973) was a German politician.[1] She was a co-founder and official of the Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend / FDJ), the youth organisation that after 1946 became the youth wing of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands / SED). Between 1946 and her death she was a member of the country's powerful Party Central Committee.[2]
Edith Baumann Edith Honecker-Baumann | |
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Born | (1909-08-01)1 August 1909 |
Died | 7 April 1973(1973-04-07) (aged 63) |
Occupation(s) | Political activist Youth leader (FDJ) Party Central Committee member |
Political party | SAPD (1931–1933) SED (1946–1973) |
Spouse | |
Children | Erika Honecker (b. 1950) |
Sources sometimes identify her as Edith Honecker-Baumann. Between the late 1940s and early or mid-1950s, sources differing on both the dates of marriage and divorce (see below), she was married to Erich Honecker, at that time the chairman of the Free German Youth organisation, and from 1971 until 1989, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, East Germany's leader.[3]