Edith Baumann

Edith Baumann
Edith Honecker-Baumann
Edith Baumann; Edith Honecker-Baumann
	Baumann in 1946
Secretary of the; Magistrate of East Berlin
	In office; 11 November 1963 – 7 April 1973
Lord Mayor	Friedrich Ebert Jr.; Herbert Fechner;
Preceded by	Wilhelm Thiele
Succeeded by	Hannelore Mensch
Secretary for Trade and Supply of the Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 23 November 1961 – 21 January 1963
First Secretary	Walter Ulbricht;
Preceded by	Erich Apel
Succeeded by	Werner Jarowinsky
Head of the Women Department
	In office; 1955–1959
Secretary	Karl Schirdewan; Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Rosel Naumann (acting)
Succeeded by	Hilde Krasnogolowy (acting)
Deputy Chairman of the; Free German Youth
	In office; June 1946 – January 1949
Chairman	Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Gerhard Heidenreich
Personal details
Born	1 August 1909; Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Germany)
Died	7 April 1973 (aged 63); East Berlin, East Germany
Party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1973)
Other political; affiliations	Socialist Workers' Party; (1931–1933)
Spouse	Erich Honecker (m. 1947⁠–⁠1953)
Children	Erika Honecker (b. 1950)
Alma mater	CPSU Higher Party School (Dipl.-Ges.-Wiss.);
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Stenotypist;
	Central institution membership 1958–1963: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1946–1973: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1963–1973: Member,; East Berlin City Assembly of Deputies ;

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Edith Baumann (1 August 1909 – 7 April 1973) was a German politician. She was a co-founder and official of the Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend / FDJ), the youth organisation that after 1946 became the youth wing of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands / SED). Between 1946 and her death she was a member of the country's powerful Party Central Committee.

Sources sometimes identify her as Edith Honecker-Baumann. Between the late 1940s and early or mid-1950s, sources differing on both the dates of marriage and divorce (see below), she was married to Erich Honecker, at that time the chairman of the Free German Youth organisation, and from 1971 until 1989, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, East Germany's leader.