Magdeburg_(Bezirk)
The Bezirk Magdeburg was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Magdeburg.
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| District of Magdeburg Bezirk Magdeburg | |||||||||||
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| District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||||
| 1952–1990 | |||||||||||
Location of Bezirk Magdeburg within the German Democratic Republic | |||||||||||
| Capital | Magdeburg | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 11,526 km2 (4,450 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 1,249,500 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| SED First Secretary | |||||||||||
• 1952–1979 | Alois Pisnik | ||||||||||
• 1979–1983 | Kurt Tiedke | ||||||||||
• 1983–1989 | Werner Eberlein | ||||||||||
• 1989 | Wolfgang Pohl | ||||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Manfred Dunkel | ||||||||||
| Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||||
• 1952–1953 | Josef Hegen | ||||||||||
• 1953–1959 | Paul Hentschel | ||||||||||
• 1957–1958 | Bruno Kiesler (acting) | ||||||||||
• 1960–1985 | Kurt Ranke | ||||||||||
• 1985–1990 | Siegfried Grünwald | ||||||||||
• 1990 | Wolfgang Braun (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1952 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
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The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was abolished as part of the process of German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt except Havelberg district, passed to Brandenburg.
Position
The Bezirk Magdeburg bordered with the Bezirke of Schwerin, Potsdam, Halle and Erfurt. It bordered also with West Germany.
Subdivision
The Bezirk was divided into 22 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 21 rural districts (Landkreise):
- Urban district : Magdeburg.
- Rural districts : Burg; Gardelegen; Genthin; Halberstadt; Haldensleben; Havelberg; Kalbe; Klötze; Loburg; Oschersleben; Osterburg; Salzwedel; Schönebeck; Seehausen; Staßfurt; Stendal; Tangerhütte; Wanzleben; Wernigerode; Wolmirstedt; Zerbst.
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