US EditionGranted the Honeckers accommodation: Pastor Uwe Holmer died
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In January 1990, Uwe Holmer was suddenly in the international limelight: The pastor let the overthrown ruler and his wife Margot move in with him. He has never regretted it.
In 1990, Uwe Holmer co-wrote a piece of German history: He granted the ousted GDR head of state Erich Honecker and his wife Margot asylum in his home in Lobetal for ten weeks. The former theologian and pastor has now died.
His kindness did not stop at the head of the GDR Council of State either. Pastor Uwe Holmer took in the overthrown dictator Erich Honecker and his wife Margot at the beginning of 1990.
Pastor Uwe Holmer, who took in the Honecker couple after the fall of the Wall, is dead.
Pastor und Honecker-Gastgeber Uwe Holmer gestorben
Nach seinem Sturz als DDR-Staatschef fand Erich Honecker eine vorübergehende Zuflucht in einem Pfarrhaus. Der Leiter der Lobetaler Anstalten bei Berlin, Uwe Holmer, nahm ihn Anfang 1990 für zehn Wochen auf. Jetzt ist der evangelische Pastor gestorben
When the ousted GDR head of state Erich Honecker and his wife Margot didn't know what to do in 1990, they found shelter with Uwe Holmer. The theologian has now died at the age of 94.
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