Erich Honecker agenda now being the composition of the Politburo. Krenz and Mielke attempted by telephone on the night of 16 October to win other Politburo members over to remove Honecker. At the beginning of the session on 17 October, Honecker asked his routine question of “Are there any suggestions for the agenda?” Stoph replied, "Please, General Secretary, Erich, I propose that a new item be placed on the agenda. It is the release of Erich Honecker as General Secretary and the election of Egon Krenz in his place." Honecker reportedly calmly responded: "Well, then I open the debate". All those present
Zersetzung whom sustained irreversible damage. Pensions for restitution have been created for the victims. The Stasi, or Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS) by its full name, defined "Zersetzung" in its 1985 dictionary of political operatives as During its first decade of existence, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) subdued political opponents primarily through the penal code, by accusing them of incitement to war or of calls of boycott. To counteract the international isolation of the GDR following the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, judicial terror was abandoned. From the start of the Erich Honecker era in