Vedic Horoscope for Honecker, Erich

German politician, the President of East Germany from 5/3/1971 to 10/18/1989. As a stolid Marxist, he ruled East Germany for 18 years until a people's uprising in October 1989 swept him aside. On 12/09/1989, almost two months after he had stepped down from his duties, Gregor Guzy took over as president. Honecker's government had badly mismanaged the economy and the environment; East Germany's infrastructure, from telephones to railroads, needed to be rebuilt, and vast sources of contamination had to be cleaned up at enormous expense. Honecker faced charges in the new United Berlin and was placed under house arrest; he eventually was sent to prison. Sy Scholfield cites birth certificate quoted in "Erich Honecker: eine deutsche Biographie" by Norbert F. Pötzl (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2002), p. 17: "«Die Industriestadt Neunkirchen gehörte, als Erich Honecker dort am 25. August 1912 auf die Welt kam, zum preußischen Regierungsbezirk Trier. Laut Geburtsurkunde, die der Standesbeamte Klein fünf Tage danach ausfertigte, zeigte der 31jährige Bergmann Wilhelm Honecker, wohnhaft in Neunkirchen, Karlstraße Nr. 26, an, daß von seiner 29 Jahre alten Ehefrau Karoline Honecker, geborene Weidenhof, »in seiner Wohnung« am vorangegangenen Sonntag »nachmittags um sechs Uhr ein Knabe geboren worden« sei und daß »das Kind den Vornamen Erich erhalten« habe."