Manfred Feist

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Manfred Feist (born Halle 6 April 1930 died Berlin 17 December 2012) was a German politician and party functionary. He served as Director of the Foreign Information Department of the Central Committee of the ruling SED (party). His notability is enhanced by the marriage, in 1953, of his elder sister Margot to a political high-flyer called Erich Honecker. As a result of this, between 1971 and 1989 Manfred Feist found himself the brother in law of East Germany's de facto head of state. Over the years he was subjected to greater media scrutiny than would normally have been applied to political functionaries at his level of competence: his tongue-in-cheek soubriquet "Manny the Great" ("Manni der Große") allegedly used by colleagues, was publicized even in West Germany. Manfred Feist was born in 1930, during the economically distressed closing years of Germany's Weimar chapter, in the south-inner city (Glaucha) quarter of Halle. Feist's father, Gotthard, was a shoe maker: his mother Helene worked in a mattress factory. Manfred Freist successfully completed his secondary schooling and, in 1947, the year of his seventeenth birthday, joined the new country's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands), along with its youth wing, the Free German Youth (FDJ / Freie Deutsche Jugend). He attended the Regional Party School in Halle and became a District Leader and instructor with the FDJ. He studied law, obtaining a doctorate in 1963.