District of Halle Bezirk Halle | |||||||||||
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District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||||
1952–1990 | |||||||||||
![]() Location of Bezirk Halle within the German Democratic Republic | |||||||||||
Capital | Halle | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 8,771 km2 (3,387 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 1,776,500 | ||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||
SED First Secretary | |||||||||||
• 1952–1953 | Bernard Koenen | ||||||||||
• 1953–1954 | Heinz Glaser | ||||||||||
• 1954–1958 | Franz Bruk | ||||||||||
• 1958–1963 | Bernard Koenen | ||||||||||
• 1963–1971 | Horst Sindermann | ||||||||||
• 1971–1981 | Werner Felfe | ||||||||||
• 1981–1989 | Hans-Joachim Böhme | ||||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Roland Claus | ||||||||||
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||||
• 1952–1954 | Werner Bruschke | ||||||||||
• 1954–1958 | Helmut Becker | ||||||||||
• 1958–1966 | Otto Leopold | ||||||||||
• 1966–1984 | Helmut Klapproth | ||||||||||
• 1984–1990 | Alfred Kolodniak | ||||||||||
• 1990 | Wolfgang Süss | ||||||||||
• 1990 | Klaus Keitel (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1952 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
The Bezirk Halle was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Halle.
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 disestablished as a consequence of the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt except Artern kreis, which became part of Thuringia.
Geography
[edit]Position
[edit]The Bezirk Halle bordered with the Bezirke of Magdeburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, Leipzig, Gera and Erfurt.
Subdivision
[edit]The Bezirk was divided into 23 Kreise: 3 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 20 rural districts (Landkreise):
- Urban districts : Dessau; Halle; Halle-Neustadt.[1]
- Rural districts : Artern; Aschersleben; Bernburg; Bitterfeld; Eisleben; Gräfenhainichen; Hettstedt; Hohenmölsen; Köthen; Merseburg; Naumburg; Nebra; Quedlinburg; Querfurt; Roßlau; Saalkreis; Sangerhausen; Weißenfels; Wittenberg; Zeitz.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Former city, now a quarter part of Halle
External links
[edit] Media related to Halle District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons