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    The Bezirk Leipzig was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany that would last from 1952 to 1990. Leipzig would be reabsorbed into Saxony after the reunification...
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    Bezirk Leipzig and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. Until his surprising death in September 1970, he ruled Bezirk Leipzig...
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    state of Saxony. The Bezirk Dresden was the easternmost Bezirk of East Germany. It, bordered on the 'Bezirke' of Cottbus, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt,...
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    longtime First Secretary of the FDJ from 1959 to 1967 and of the SED in Bezirk Leipzig from 1970 to 1989. Schumann's father, Georg Schumann, was a toolmaker...
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    Regierungsbezirk corresponded to that of the former Bezirk Leipzig which existed from 1952 to 1990. A Regierungsbezirk Leipzig existed already from 1939 to 1943, when...
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    with the Bezirke of Gera, Leipzig and Dresden. It bordered also with Czechoslovakia and West German Upper Franconia. The Bezirk was divided into 26 Kreise:...
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    Bärbel Wöckel (category People from Bezirk Leipzig)
    Bärbel Wöckel (née Eckert; born 21 March 1955) is a former East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she...
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    Kristin Otto (category People from Bezirk Leipzig)
    short course meet at Indiana University in 1983. Otto was born in Leipzig, Bezirk Leipzig (present-day Sachsen), East Germany, and began swimming at the...
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    Marco Rose (category People from Bezirk Leipzig)
    currently the manager of Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, and a former player who was a defender for Lokomotive Leipzig, Hannover 96 and Mainz 05. He coached Mainz...
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    Renate Stecher (category People from Bezirk Leipzig)
    Renate Stecher (German pronunciation: [ʁənaːtə ˈʃtɛçɐ], audio; née Meißner, born 12 May 1950) is a German (former East German) sprint runner and a triple...
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