Common Name: | Gera |
Conventional Long Name: | District of Gera |
Native Name: | Bezirk Gera |
Subdivision: | District (Bezirk) |
Nation: | East Germany |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Bezirk Gera within the German Democratic Republic |
Capital: | Gera |
Stat Area1: | 4004 |
Stat Pop1: | 742,000 |
Stat Year1: | 1989 |
Leader1: | Otto Funke |
Leader2: | Heinz Glaser |
Leader3: | Paul Roscher |
Leader4: | Herbert Ziegenhahn |
Leader5: | Erich Postler |
Year Leader1: | 1952–1955 |
Year Leader2: | 1955–1959 |
Year Leader3: | 1959–1963 |
Year Leader4: | 1963–1989 |
Year Leader5: | 1989 |
Title Leader: | SED First Secretary |
Title Deputy: | Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |
Deputy1: | Lydia Poser |
Deputy2: | Albert Wettengel |
Deputy3: | Horst Wenzel |
Deputy4: | Rudolf Bahmann |
Deputy5: | Joachim Mittasch |
Deputy6: | Karl-Heinz Fleischer |
Deputy7: | Werner Ulbrich |
Deputy8: | Helmut Luck |
Deputy9: | Peter Lindlau |
Year Deputy1: | 1952–1959 |
Year Deputy2: | 1959–1965 |
Year Deputy3: | 1965–1973 |
Year Deputy4: | 1973–1977† |
Year Deputy5: | 1977 |
Year Deputy6: | 1977–1983 |
Year Deputy7: | 1983–1990 |
Year Deputy8: | 1990 |
Year Deputy9: | 1990 |
P1: | Thuringia |
Flag P1: | Flag of Thuringia.svg |
S1: | Thuringia |
Flag S1: | Flag of Thuringia.svg |
Year Start: | 1952 |
Year End: | 1990 |
Today: | Germany |
The Bezirk Gera was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and main town was Gera.
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, replacing the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished following German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Thuringia.
The Bezirk Gera had borders with the Bezirke of Suhl, Erfurt, Halle, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt, as well as with West Germany.
The Bezirk was divided into 13 Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 11 rural districts (Landkreise):