| District of Dresden Bezirk Dresden | |||||||||
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| District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||
| 1952–1990 | |||||||||
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 Location of Bezirk Dresden within theGerman Democratic Republic | |||||||||
| Capital | Dresden | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1989 | 6,738 km2 (2,602 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1989 | 1,757,400 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| SED First Secretary | |||||||||
• 1952–1957 | Hans Riesner | ||||||||
• 1957–1960 | Fritz Reuter | ||||||||
• 1960–1973 | Werner Krolikowski | ||||||||
• 1973–1989 | Hans Modrow | ||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Hans-Joachim Hahn | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||
• 1952–1958 | Rudolf Jahn | ||||||||
• 1958–1961 | Walter Weidauer | ||||||||
• 1961–1963 | Günter Witteck | ||||||||
• 1963–1982 | Manfred Scheler | ||||||||
• 1982–1989 | Günter Witteck | ||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Wolfgang Sieber | ||||||||
• 1990 | Michael Kunze | ||||||||
• 1990 | Siegfried Ballschuh(asRegierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1952 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
TheBezirk Dresden was adistrict (Bezirk) ofEast Germany that lasted from 1952 to 1990. Dresden would be reabsorbed intoSaxony after thereunification of Germany. The administrative seat and the main town wasDresden.
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, with the disestablishment of the oldGermanstates. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished uponGerman reunification, becoming again part of the state ofSaxony.
The Bezirk Dresden was the easternmost Bezirk of East Germany. It, bordered on the 'Bezirke' ofCottbus,Leipzig andKarl-Marx-Stadt, as well as onCzechoslovakia andPoland. It was broadly similar in area to the laterDirektionsbezirk Dresden, which functioned from 1990 to 2012.
TheBezirk was divided into 17Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 15 rural districts (Landkreise):
Media related toDresden District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons
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