Bezirk Magdeburg

District of Magdeburg Bezirk Magdeburg
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990
Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Magdeburg within the German Democratic Republic
Capital	Magdeburg
Area
• 1989	11,526 km2 (4,450 sq mi)
Population
• 1989	1,249,500
Government
SED First Secretary
• 1952–1979	Alois Pisnik
• 1979–1983	Kurt Tiedke
• 1983–1989	Werner Eberlein
• 1989	Wolfgang Pohl
• 1989–1990	Manfred Dunkel
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk
• 1952–1953	Josef Hegen
• 1953–1959	Paul Hentschel
• 1957–1958	Bruno Kiesler (acting)
• 1960–1985	Kurt Ranke
• 1985–1990	Siegfried Grünwald
• 1990	Wolfgang Braun (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
History
• Established	1952
• Disestablished	1990
Preceded by Succeeded by Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952) Saxony-Anhalt Brandenburg
Today part of	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):

• Urban district : Magdeburg.
• Rural districts : Burg; Gardelegen; Genthin; Halberstadt; Haldensleben; Havelberg; Kalbe; Klötze; Loburg; Oschersleben; Osterburg; Salzwedel; Schönebeck; Seehausen; Staßfurt; Stendal; Tangerhütte; Wanzleben; Wernigerode; Wolmirstedt; Zerbst.

• Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg

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