District of Magdeburg Bezirk Magdeburg | |||||||||||
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District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||||
1952–1990 | |||||||||||
![]() Location of Bezirk Magdeburg within the German Democratic Republic | |||||||||||
Capital | Magdeburg | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 11,526 km2 (4,450 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 1,249,500 | ||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||
SED First Secretary | |||||||||||
• 1952–1979 | Alois Pisnik | ||||||||||
• 1979–1983 | Kurt Tiedke | ||||||||||
• 1983–1989 | Werner Eberlein | ||||||||||
• 1989 | Wolfgang Pohl | ||||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Manfred Dunkel | ||||||||||
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||||
• 1952–1953 | Josef Hegen | ||||||||||
• 1953–1959 | Paul Hentschel | ||||||||||
• 1957–1958 | Bruno Kiesler (acting) | ||||||||||
• 1960–1985 | Kurt Ranke | ||||||||||
• 1985–1990 | Siegfried Grünwald | ||||||||||
• 1990 | Wolfgang Braun (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1952 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
The Bezirk Magdeburg was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Magdeburg.
History
[edit]The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was abolished as part of the process of German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt except Havelberg district, passed to Brandenburg.
Geography
[edit]Position
[edit]The Bezirk Magdeburg bordered with the Bezirke of Schwerin, Potsdam, Halle and Erfurt. It bordered also with West Germany.
Subdivision
[edit]The Bezirk was divided into 22 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 21 rural districts (Landkreise):
- Urban district : Magdeburg.
- Rural districts : Burg; Gardelegen; Genthin; Halberstadt; Haldensleben; Havelberg; Kalbe; Klötze; Loburg; Oschersleben; Osterburg; Salzwedel; Schönebeck; Seehausen; Staßfurt; Stendal; Tangerhütte; Wanzleben; Wernigerode; Wolmirstedt; Zerbst.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit] Media related to Magdeburg District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons