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...Ulbricht put Honecker to work organizing young East Germans into the Communist-run Free German Youth. Honecker built a movement that embraced every young person from age 14. He also gave it a paramilitary character by introducing flying, parachuting and weapons practice, much like the Hitler Youth...
...Honecker supported Ulbricht against critics who had sought intellectual and cultural freedom in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization campaign. As a reward, Honecker was named to full Politburo membership and given the country's second most important post: Central Committee Secretary in charge of the armed forces and internal security. In 1961, he supervised the building of the Wall...
Honecker proved a dutiful deputy to Ulbricht, affecting the same wide-brimmed Panama hats and gray suits that are the old man's trademarks. Politically, Honecker, now 58, is, if anything, even more doctrinaire and rigid than Ulbricht. "Honecker is a stubborn dogmatist," says Werner Baum, a former East German official who defected two years ago. The years of solitary confinement left their mark on Honecker, an obsessively neat man who wears heavy hornrimmed spectacles and is known as "Granite Face" among East Europeans. "If he were not so utterly dedicated to orthodoxy, one could say he was totally...
...Lenin has become a kind of Communist Christ, Walter Ulbricht, 77, is the self-appointed St. Peter. The oldest and most durable of the Soviet bloc party leaders, Ulbricht alone can lace his speeches with references to what he personally heard Lenin say, and he has used his disciple status to lecture the Soviets and East Europeans interminably on the need for political orthodoxy and extreme caution in dealing with the West. Last week Walter Ulbricht lost the bedrock of his power, the leadership of the East German Communist Party, which he helped found in 1946 and has headed since...
...assembled 131-member East German Central Committee Ulbricht explained that he was retaining his seat in the Politburo and his post as chief of state, which may now become largely ceremonial. But for reasons of health, Ulbricht continued, he was giving up the position of party first secretary. As his replacement, Ulbricht named the party's long-time No. 2 man, Erich Honecker (see box). Willi Stoph, 56, who has been Honecker's rival, remains premier in charge of government affairs. "To be honest, the decision did not come easily," said Ulbricht of his retirement. "Unfortunately," he added...