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Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during the Revolutions of 1989. He succeeded Erich Honecker as the General Secretary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) but was forced … See more
Krenz was born to German parents in Kolberg, then part of Nazi Germany and now in Poland. His family resettled in Damgarten in 1945 during the mass repatriations and expulsions of Germans from Poland at the … See more
Following popular protests against East Germany's communist government, the SED Politburo voted to remove Honecker on 18 October 1989, … See more
In 1997, Krenz was sentenced to six-and-a-half years' imprisonment for Cold War crimes, specifically manslaughter of four Germans attempting to escape East Germany over the Berlin Wall. He was also charged with electoral fraud, along with other criminal … See more
Trained as a teacher and working as a journalist early in his career, Krenz joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) in 1953, as a teenager and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1955. After serving in the Volksarmee from 1959 to 1961, he rejoined the FDJ. … See more
On 6 November, the Interior Ministry published a draft of new travel regulations. While branded as a major change, in truth the draft made only cosmetic changes to Honecker-era rules. … See more
Krenz currently lives in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in a town on the Baltic Sea coast. Unlike other high-ranking former members of the … See more
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