| District of HalleBezirk Halle | |||||||||||
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| District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||||
| 1952–1990 | |||||||||||
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 Location of Bezirk Halle within the German Democratic Republic | |||||||||||
| Capital | Halle/Saale | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • 1989 | 8,771 km (3,387 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
| • 1989 | 1,776,500 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party | |||||||||||
| • 1952–1953 | Bernard Koenen | ||||||||||
| • 1953–1954 | Heinz Glaser | ||||||||||
| • 1954–1958 | Franz Bruk | ||||||||||
| • 1958–1963 | Bernard Koenen | ||||||||||
| • 1963–1971 | Horst Sindermann | ||||||||||
| • 1971–1981 | Werner Felfe | ||||||||||
| • 1981–1989 | Hans-Joachim Böhme | ||||||||||
| • 1989–1990 | Roland Claus | ||||||||||
| Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||||
| • 1952–1954 | Werner Bruschke | ||||||||||
| • 1954–1958 | Helmut Becker | ||||||||||
| • 1958–1966 | Otto Leopold | ||||||||||
| • 1966–1984 | Helmut Klapproth | ||||||||||
| • 1984–1990 | Alfred Kolodniak | ||||||||||
| • 1990 | Wolfgang Süss | ||||||||||
| • 1990 | Klaus Keitel (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Bezirkstag Halle | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| • Established | 1952 | ||||||||||
| • Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
The Bezirk Halle was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Halle.
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 as a consequence of the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt except Artern kreis, which became part of Thuringia.
Geography
Position
The Bezirk Halle bordered with the Bezirke of Magdeburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, Leipzig, Gera and Erfurt.
Subdivision
The Bezirk was divided into 23 Kreise: 3 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 20 rural districts (Landkreise):
- Urban districts : Dessau; Halle; Halle-Neustadt.
- Rural districts : Artern; Aschersleben; Bernburg; Bitterfeld; Eisleben; Gräfenhainichen; Hettstedt; Hohenmölsen; Köthen; Merseburg; Naumburg; Nebra; Quedlinburg; Querfurt; Roßlau; Saalkreis; Sangerhausen; Weißenfels; Wittenberg; Zeitz.
See also
References
- Former city, now a quarter part of Halle
External links
Media related to Halle District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons
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