East German politician who was an influential member of the SED and minister of the GDR until 1989.
From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of Educationof the GDR. She was married to Erich Honecker, the leader of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party from 1971 to 1989 and concurrently from 1976 to 1989 the country's head of state.
After 1992 Margot Honecker lived in Chile and kept defending Stalinism.