Edith Baumann

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Edith Baumann
Edith Honecker-Baumann
Born(1909-08-01)1 August 1909
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died7 April 1973(1973-04-07) (aged 63)
East Berlin, East Germany
Occupation(s)Political activist
Youth leader (FDJ)
Party Central Committee member
Political partySAPD (1931–1933)
SED (1946–1973)
Spouse
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(m. 1947⁠–⁠1953)​
ChildrenErika Honecker (b. 1950)

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]

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]

  1. ^ Commire, A. (1999). Women in World History. Gale. pp. 261–262. ISBN 978-0-7876-4061-3. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  2. ^ Bernd-Rainer Barth; Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Baumann, Edith (verh. Honecker-Baumann) * 1 August 1909; † 7 April 1973 Generalsekretärin der FDJ, Sekretärin des ZK der SED". Wer war wer in der DDR? (in German). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  3. ^ Regina Haunhorst; Irmgard Zündorf. "Erich Honecker 1912–1994". Lebendiges Museum Online (in German). Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Retrieved 13 April 2016.