Margot Honecker
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Margot Honecker née Feist (born April 17, 1927 in Halle/Saale, Germany) is a German Communist politician who served as Minister for National Education in the German Democratic Republic from 1963 until 1989. She was married to Erich Honecker (1912-1994), the former leader of East Germany, and they had a daughter together named Sonja born in 1951. Margot Honecker has resided in Chile since 1993. Margot Honecker receives a survivor's pension and the old-age pension of the German old age pension insurance federation. In 2000 Luis Corvalan, the former Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile, published the book "The Other Germany - the GDR. Discussions with Margot Honecker", in which she speaks about the history of the GDR from her view.