Common Name: | Magdeburg |
Conventional Long Name: | District of Magdeburg |
Native Name: | Bezirk Magdeburg |
Subdivision: | District (Bezirk) |
Nation: | East Germany |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Bezirk Magdeburg within the German Democratic Republic |
Capital: | Magdeburg |
Stat Area1: | 11526 |
Stat Pop1: | 1,249,500 |
Stat Year1: | 1989 |
Leader1: | Alois Pisnik |
Leader2: | Kurt Tiedke |
Leader3: | Werner Eberlein |
Leader4: | Wolfgang Pohl |
Leader5: | Manfred Dunkel |
Year Leader1: | 1952–1979 |
Year Leader2: | 1979–1983 |
Year Leader3: | 1983–1989 |
Year Leader4: | 1989 |
Year Leader5: | 1989–1990 |
Title Leader: | SED First Secretary |
Title Deputy: | Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |
Deputy1: | Josef Hegen |
Deputy2: | Paul Hentschel |
Deputy3: | Bruno Kiesler |
Deputy4: | Kurt Ranke |
Deputy5: | Siegfried Grünwald |
Deputy6: | Wolfgang Braun |
Year Deputy1: | 1952–1953 |
Year Deputy2: | 1953–1959 |
Year Deputy3: | 1957–1958 |
Year Deputy4: | 1960–1985 |
Year Deputy5: | 1985–1990 |
Year Deputy6: | 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: | Brandenburg |
Flag S2: | Flag of Brandenburg.svg |
Year Start: | 1952 |
Year End: | 1990 |
Today: | Germany |
The Bezirk Magdeburg was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Magdeburg.
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.
The Bezirk Magdeburg bordered with the Bezirke of Schwerin, Potsdam, Halle and Erfurt. It bordered also with West Germany.
The Bezirk was divided into 22 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 21 rural districts (Landkreise):