Bezirk Dresden

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District of Dresden
Bezirk Dresden
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990
District of Dresden in German Democratic Republic.svg
Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German 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 (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
History 
 Established
1952
 Disestablished
1990
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Flag of Saxony.svg Saxony (1945–1952)
Saxony Flag of Saxony.svg
Today part of Germany

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

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History

The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting 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):

See also

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