Common Name: | Halle |
Conventional Long Name: | District of Halle |
Native Name: | Bezirk Halle |
Subdivision: | District (Bezirk) |
Nation: | East Germany |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Bezirk Halle within the German Democratic Republic |
Capital: | Halle |
Stat Area1: | 8771 |
Stat Pop1: | 1,776,500 |
Stat Year1: | 1989 |
Leader1: | Bernard Koenen |
Leader2: | Heinz Glaser |
Leader3: | Franz Bruk |
Leader4: | Bernard Koenen |
Leader5: | Horst Sindermann |
Leader6: | Werner Felfe |
Leader7: | Hans-Joachim Böhme |
Leader8: | Roland Claus |
Year Leader1: | 1952–1953 |
Year Leader2: | 1953–1954 |
Year Leader3: | 1954–1958 |
Year Leader4: | 1958–1963 |
Year Leader5: | 1963–1971 |
Year Leader6: | 1971–1981 |
Year Leader7: | 1981–1989 |
Year Leader8: | 1989–1990 |
Title Leader: | SED First Secretary |
Title Deputy: | Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |
Deputy1: | Werner Bruschke |
Deputy2: | Helmut Becker |
Deputy3: | Otto Leopold |
Deputy4: | Helmut Klapproth |
Deputy5: | Alfred Kolodniak |
Deputy6: | Wolfgang Süss |
Deputy7: | Klaus Keitel |
Year Deputy1: | 1952–1954 |
Year Deputy2: | 1954–1958 |
Year Deputy3: | 1958–1966 |
Year Deputy4: | 1966–1984 |
Year Deputy5: | 1984–1990 |
Year Deputy6: | 1990 |
Year Deputy7: | 1990 |
P1: | Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952) |
Flag P1: | Flagge Preußen - Provinz Sachsen.svg |
S1: | Saxony-Anhalt |
Flag S1: | Flag of Saxony-Anhalt (state).svg |
S2: | Thuringia |
Flag S2: | Flag of Thuringia.svg |
Year Start: | 1952 |
Year End: | 1990 |
Today: | Germany |
The Bezirk Halle was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Halle.
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.
The Bezirk Halle bordered with the Bezirke of Magdeburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, Leipzig, Gera and Erfurt.
The Bezirk was divided into 23 Kreise: 3 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 20 rural districts (Landkreise):