The Bezirk Halle was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Halle.
District of Halle Bezirk Halle | |||||||||||
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District (Bezirk) of East Germany | |||||||||||
1952–1990 | |||||||||||
![]() Location of Bezirk Halle within the German Democratic Republic | |||||||||||
Capital | Halle | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 8,771 km2 (3,387 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1989 | 1,776,500 | ||||||||||
Regierung | |||||||||||
SED First Secretary | |||||||||||
• 1952–1953 | Bernard Koenen | ||||||||||
• 1953–1954 | Heinz Glaser | ||||||||||
• 1954–1958 | Franz Bruk | ||||||||||
• 1958–1963 | Bernard Koenen | ||||||||||
• 1963–1971 | Horst Sindermann | ||||||||||
• 1971–1981 | Werner Felfe | ||||||||||
• 1981–1989 | Hans-Joachim Böhme | ||||||||||
• 1989–1990 | Roland Claus | ||||||||||
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk | |||||||||||
• 1952–1954 | Werner Bruschke | ||||||||||
• 1954–1958 | Helmut Becker | ||||||||||
• 1958–1966 | Otto Leopold | ||||||||||
• 1966–1984 | Helmut Klapproth | ||||||||||
• 1984–1990 | Alfred Kolodniak | ||||||||||
• 1990 | Wolfgang Süss | ||||||||||
• 1990 | Klaus Keitel (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1952 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1990 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Deutschland |
History
editThe 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.
Geography
editPosition
editThe Bezirk Halle bordered with the Bezirke of Magdeburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, Leipzig, Gera and Erfurt.
Subdivision
editThe Bezirk was divided into 23 Kreise: 3 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 20 rural districts (Landkreise):
- Urban districts : Dessau; Halle; Halle-Neustadt.[1]
- Rural districts : Artern; Aschersleben; Bernburg; Bitterfeld; Eisleben; Gräfenhainichen; Hettstedt; Hohenmölsen; Köthen; Merseburg; Naumburg; Nebra; Quedlinburg; Querfurt; Roßlau; Saalkreis; Sangerhausen; Weißenfels; Wittenberg; Zeitz.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Former city, now a quarter part of Halle
External links
editMedia related to Halle District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons