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Bezirk Dresden

Disestablished district of East Germany


Summary

Disestablished district of East Germany

FieldValue
common_nameDresden
conventional_long_nameDistrict of Dresden
native_nameBezirk Dresden
subdivisionDistrict (Bezirk)
nationEast Germany
image_flagFlag of Dresden (old version).svg
image_coatWappen Dresden DDR.svg
image_mapDistrict of Dresden in German Democratic Republic.svg
image_map_captionLocation of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
capitalDresden
stat_area16738
stat_pop11,757,400
stat_year11989
leader1Hans Riesner
leader2Fritz Reuter
leader3Werner Krolikowski
leader4Hans Modrow
leader5Hans-Joachim Hahn
year_leader11952–1957
year_leader21957–1960
year_leader31960–1973
year_leader41973–1989
year_leader51989–1990
title_leaderSED First Secretary
title_deputyChairman of the Council of the Bezirk
deputy1Rudolf Jahn
deputy2Walter Weidauer
deputy3Günter Witteck
deputy4Manfred Scheler
deputy5Günter Witteck
deputy6Wolfgang Sieber
deputy7Michael Kunze
deputy8Siegfried Ballschuh (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
year_deputy11952–1958
year_deputy21958–1961
year_deputy31961–1963
year_deputy41963–1982
year_deputy51982–1989
year_deputy61989–1990
year_deputy71990
year_deputy81990
p1Saxony (1945–1952)
flag_p1Flag of Saxony.svg
s1Saxony
flag_s1Flag of Saxony.svg
year_start1952
year_end1990
todayGermany

The Bezirk Dresden was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany that lasted from 1952 to 1990. Dresden would be reabsorbed into Saxony after the reunification of Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Dresden.

History

The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, with the disestablishment of the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished upon German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Dresden was the easternmost Bezirk of East Germany. It, bordered on the 'Bezirke' of Cottbus, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt, as well as on Czechoslovakia and Poland. It was broadly similar in area to the later Direktionsbezirk Dresden, which functioned from 1990 to 2012.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 17 Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 15 rural districts (Landkreise):

  • Urban districts: Dresden; Görlitz.
  • Rural districts: Bautzen; Bischofswerda; Dippoldiswalde; Dresden-Land; Freital; Görlitz; Großenhain; Kamenz; Löbau; Meißen; Niesky; Pirna; Riesa; Sebnitz; Zittau.

References

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