- Daughter Sonja (b. 1. December 1952) with Erich Honecker.
- Minister for People's Education of German Democratic Republic (1963 to 1989).
- Lives with her daughter in Santiago de Chile. (December 2003)
- She required mandatory classes in socialist thought and military tactics, and was one of the most powerful and most feared figures in the repressive regime of 'Socialist Unity Party of Germany'.
- Her father was a factory worker who was imprisoned by the Nazis because of his membership in the Communist Party.
- As a young woman, she was a telephone operator, but quickly rose to prominence as a member of Germany's postwar Communist Party. In 1950, she became the youngest member of parliament in the newly-formed East Germany.
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