Greetings, I'm Egon Krenz, a former East German politician who served as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and the head of state of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Born on March 19, 1937, in Kolberg, Germany, my political career was deeply intertwined with the history of East Germany. Rising through the ranks of the SED, I became a key figure in the East German government during the 1980s. In October 1989, I succeeded Erich Honecker as General Secretary of