District of Rostock Bezirk Rostock | |||||||||
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District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||
1952–1990 | |||||||||
Location of Bezirk Rostock within the German Democratic Republic | |||||||||
Capital | Rostock | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1989 | 7,075 km2 (2,732 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1989 | 916,500 | ||||||||
Government | |||||||||
SED First Secretary | |||||||||
• 1952–1961 | Karl Mewis | ||||||||
• 1961–1975 | Harry Tisch | ||||||||
• 1975–1989 | Ernst Timm | ||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Ulrich Peck | ||||||||
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||
• 1952 | Erhard Holweger | ||||||||
• 1952–1959 | Hans Warnke | ||||||||
• 1959–1961 | Harry Tisch | ||||||||
• 1961–1969 | Karl Deuscher | ||||||||
• 1969–1986 | Willy Marlow | ||||||||
• 1986–1989 | Eberhard Kühl | ||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Götz Kreuer | ||||||||
• 1990 | Hans-Joachim Kalendrusch (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1952 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
The Bezirk Rostock was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Rostock.
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was dissolved following German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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