| Common Name: | Dresden |
| Conventional Long Name: | District of Dresden |
| Native Name: | Bezirk Dresden |
| Subdivision: | District (Bezirk) |
| Nation: | East Germany |
| Image Map Caption: | Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic |
| Capital: | Dresden |
| Stat Area1: | 6738 |
| Stat Pop1: | 1,757,400 |
| Stat Year1: | 1989 |
| Leader1: | Hans Riesner |
| Leader2: | Fritz Reuter |
| Leader3: | Werner Krolikowski |
| Leader4: | Hans Modrow |
| Leader5: | Hans-Joachim Hahn |
| Year Leader1: | 1952–1957 |
| Year Leader2: | 1957–1960 |
| Year Leader3: | 1960–1973 |
| Year Leader4: | 1973–1989 |
| Year Leader5: | 1989–1990 |
| Title Leader: | SED First Secretary |
| Title Deputy: | Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |
| Deputy1: | Rudolf Jahn |
| Deputy2: | Walter Weidauer |
| Deputy3: | Günter Witteck |
| Deputy4: | Manfred Scheler |
| Deputy5: | Günter Witteck |
| Deputy6: | Wolfgang Sieber |
| Deputy7: | Michael Kunze |
| Deputy8: | Siegfried Ballschuh |
| Year Deputy1: | 1952–1958 |
| Year Deputy2: | 1958–1961 |
| Year Deputy3: | 1961–1963 |
| Year Deputy4: | 1963–1982 |
| Year Deputy5: | 1982–1989 |
| Year Deputy6: | 1989–1990 |
| Year Deputy7: | 1990 |
| Year Deputy8: | 1990 |
| P1: | Saxony (1945–1952) |
| Flag P1: | Flag of Saxony.svg |
| S1: | Saxony |
| Flag S1: | Flag of Saxony.svg |
| Year Start: | 1952 |
| Year End: | 1990 |
| Today: | 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.
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.
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.
The Bezirk was divided into 17 Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 15 rural districts (Landkreise):