Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic during the Revolutions of 1989. He succeeded Erich Honecker as the General Secretary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) but was forced to resign only weeks later when the Berlin Wall fell.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Volkskammer, Chairman of the State Council, Chairman of the National Defence Council of the GDR
- Citizenship
- Germany, East Germany
- Born
- March 19, 1937