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.

District of Dresden
Bezirk Dresden
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990

Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
CapitalDresden
Area 
• 1989
6,738 km2 (2,602 sq mi)
Population 
• 1989
1,757,400
Government
SED First Secretary 
• 1952–1957
Hans Riesner
• 1957–1960
Fritz Reuter
• 1960–1973
Werner Krolikowski
• 1973–1989
Hans Modrow
• 1989–1990
Hans-Joachim Hahn
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk 
• 1952–1958
Rudolf Jahn
• 1958–1961
Walter Weidauer
• 1961–1963
Günter Witteck
• 1963–1982
Manfred Scheler
• 1982–1989
Günter Witteck
• 1989–1990
Wolfgang Sieber
• 1990
Michael Kunze
• 1990
Siegfried Ballschuh (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
History 
• Established
1952
• Disestablished
1990
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Saxony (1945–1952)
Saxony
Today part ofGermany

History

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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.

Geography

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Position

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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.

Subdivision

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The Bezirk was divided into 17 Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 15 rural districts (Landkreise):

See also

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References

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  Media related to Dresden District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons