Margot Honecker née Feist (born April 17, 1927) is a German Communist politician from Halle. She served as Minister for National Education in the German Democratic Republic from 1963 until 1989. She was married to Erich Honecker, the former leader of East Germany, and they had a daughter together named Sonja born in 1951. Honecker has resided in Chile since 1993. She 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 Honecker speaks about the history of the GDR from her view.
