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Administrative divisions of East Germany, the Glossary

Index Administrative divisions of East Germany

The administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic (commonly referred to as East Germany) were constituted in two different forms during the country's history.[1]

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  1. 88 relations: Abolition of Prussia, Allies of World War II, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Bezirk, Bezirk Cottbus, Bezirk Dresden, Bezirk Erfurt, Bezirk Frankfurt, Bezirk Gera, Bezirk Halle, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, Bezirk Leipzig, Bezirk Magdeburg, Bezirk Neubrandenburg, Bezirk Potsdam, Bezirk Rostock, Bezirk Schwerin, Bezirk Suhl, Bogatynia, Brandenburg an der Havel, Chamber of States, Chemnitz, Cottbus, Dessau, Districts of Germany, Dresden, East Berlin, East Germany, Eisenhüttenstadt, Erfurt, Federal republic, Federated state, France, Frankfurt (Oder), Free State of Anhalt, Görlitz, Gera, German reunification, Greifswald, Halle (Saale), Halle-Neustadt, Jena, Johanngeorgenstadt, Landtag, Legal fiction, Leipzig, List of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany, Magdeburg, Mecklenburg, ... Expand index (38 more) »

  2. Subdivisions of East Germany
  3. Subdivisions of former countries

Abolition of Prussia

The abolition of Prussia took place on 25 February 1947 through a decree of the Allied Control Council, the governing body of post-World War II occupied Germany and Austria.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Allies of World War II

Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Berlin

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).

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Bezirk

The German term (plural Bezirke, derived from circulus, "circle") translated as "district" can refer to the following types of administrative divisions.

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Bezirk Cottbus

Bezirk Cottbus was a district (Bezirk) of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Cottbus

Bezirk Dresden

The Bezirk Dresden was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany that lasted from 1952 to 1990.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Dresden

Bezirk Erfurt

The Bezirk Erfurt was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Erfurt

Bezirk Frankfurt

The Bezirk Frankfurt, also Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder), was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Frankfurt

Bezirk Gera

The Bezirk Gera was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Gera

Bezirk Halle

The Bezirk Halle was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Halle

Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, also known as Bezirk Chemnitz, was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt

Bezirk Leipzig

The Bezirk Leipzig was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany that would last from 1952 to 1990.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Leipzig

Bezirk Magdeburg

The Bezirk Magdeburg was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Magdeburg

Bezirk Neubrandenburg

The Bezirk Neubrandenburg was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Neubrandenburg

Bezirk Potsdam

The Bezirk Potsdam was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Potsdam

Bezirk Rostock

The Bezirk Rostock was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Rostock

Bezirk Schwerin

The Bezirk Schwerin was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

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Bezirk Suhl

The Bezirk Suhl was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Bezirk Suhl

Bogatynia

Bogatynia (German: Reichenau in Sachsen) is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Brandenburg an der Havel

Brandenburg an der Havel (Brenna) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, which served as the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg until it was replaced by Berlin in 1417.

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Chamber of States

The Chamber of States (Länderkammer) was the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from its founding in 1949 until 1952, at which time it was largely sidelined, when the five Länder (states) of East Germany ceased to exist and were replaced with smaller administrative regions.

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Chemnitz

Chemnitz (from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden.

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Cottbus

Cottbus or italic is a university city and the second-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after the state capital of Potsdam.

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Dessau

Dessau is a district of the independent city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Districts of Germany

In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a Gemeinde (municipality) is the Landkreis or Kreis.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Districts of Germany

Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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East Berlin

East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. Administrative divisions of East Germany and East Berlin are subdivisions of East Germany.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Eisenhüttenstadt

Eisenhüttenstadt (literally "ironworks city" in German;, Pśibrjog) is a town in the Oder-Spree district of the state of Brandenburg, in eastern Germany, on the border with Poland.

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Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia.

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Federal republic

A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government.

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Federated state

A federated state (also state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frankfurt (Oder)

Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (Central Marchian: Frankfort an de Oder) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after Potsdam, Cottbus and Brandenburg an der Havel.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Frankfurt (Oder)

Free State of Anhalt

The Free State of Anhalt (Freistaat Anhalt) was formed after Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt abdicated on 12 November 1918, ending the Duchy of Anhalt.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Free State of Anhalt

Görlitz

Görlitz (Zgorzelec, Zhorjelc, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialects) is a town in the German state of Saxony.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Görlitz

Gera

Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Gera

German reunification

German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.

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Greifswald

Greifswald, officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: Griepswoold, Kashubian: Grifiô) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Greifswald

Halle (Saale)

Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (from the 15th to the 17th century: Hall in Sachsen; until the beginning of the 20th century: Halle an der Saale; from 1965 to 1995: Halle/Saale) is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the 31st-largest city of Germany, and with around 244,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg.

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Halle-Neustadt

Halle-Neustadt, popularly known as HaNeu (like Hanoi), was a city in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

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Jena

Jena is a city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia.

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Johanngeorgenstadt

Johanngeorgenstadt is a mining town in Saxony’s Ore Mountains, 17 km south of Aue, and 27 km northwest of Karlovy Vary.

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Landtag

A Landtag (State Diet) is generally the legislative assembly or parliament of a federated state or other subnational self-governing entity in German-speaking nations.

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A legal fiction is a construct used in the law where a thing is taken to be true, which is not in fact true, in order to achieve an outcome.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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List of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany

This article lists the leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR). Administrative divisions of East Germany and list of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany are subdivisions of East Germany.

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Magdeburg

Magdeburg is the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt.

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Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg (Mękel(n)borg) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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Municipalities of Germany

Municipalities, European Commission, May 2021, pages 58–59.

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Neubrandenburg

Neubrandenburg (lit. New Brandenburg) is a city in the southeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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New states of Germany

The new states of Germany (die neuen Länder / die neuen Bundesländer) are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 "old states" upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Oder–Neisse line

The Oder–Neisse line (Oder-Neiße-Grenze, granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej) is an unofficial term for the modern border between Germany and Poland.

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Plauen

Plauen (Czech: Plavno) is, with a population of around 65,000, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest city in the Saxon Vogtland (German: Sächsisches Vogtland).

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Plauen

Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.

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Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

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Province of Hesse-Nassau

The Province of Hesse-Nassau was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944.

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Province of Lower Silesia

The Province of Lower Silesia (Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Niederschläsing; Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślōnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945.

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Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)

The Province of Pomerania (Provinz Pommern; Prowincja Pomorze) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)

Province of Saxony

The Province of Saxony (Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony (Preußisches Sachsen), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Rügen (district)

Rügen was a Kreis (district) in the northeastern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

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Rostock

Rostock (Polabian: Roztoc), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania.

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Schneeberg, Saxony

Schneeberg is a town in Saxony’s district of Erzgebirgskreis.

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Schwedt

Schwedt (or Schwedt/Oder) is a town in Brandenburg, in northeastern Germany.

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Schwerin

Schwerin (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch Low German: Swerin; Polabian: Zwierzyn; Latin: Suerina, Suerinum) is the capital and second-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as of the region of Mecklenburg, after Rostock.

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Soviet occupation zone in Germany

The Soviet occupation zone in Germany (or label) was an area of Germany that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a communist area, established as a result of the Potsdam Agreement on 1 August 1945.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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State of Brandenburg (1945–1952)

The State of Brandenburg (Land Brandenburg) was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone (until 1949) and state of East Germany (from 1949) which corresponds widely to the present-day German state Brandenburg.

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State of Mecklenburg (1945–1952)

The State of Mecklenburg (Land Mecklenburg) was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone (until 1949) and one of the states of East Germany (from 1949) which corresponds widely to the present-day German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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State of Saxony (1945–1952)

The State of Saxony (Land Sachsen) was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone in Germany (until 1949) and state of East Germany (from 1952) which broadly corresponds with the present-day German state of Saxony.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and State of Saxony (1945–1952)

State of Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952)

The State of Saxony-Anhalt (German: Land Sachsen-Anhalt) was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone (until 1949) and state of East Germany (from 1949) which broadly corresponds with the present-day German state Saxony-Anhalt.

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States of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states.

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Stralsund

Stralsund (Swedish: Strålsund), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Stralsund

Suhl

Suhl is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located SW of Erfurt, NE of Würzburg and N of Nuremberg.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Suhl

Thuringia

Thuringia, officially the Free State of Thuringia, is a state of central Germany, covering, the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states.

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Unitary state

A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Weimar

Weimar is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden.

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West Berlin

West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Western Pomerania

Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (Vorpommern; Pomorze Przednie), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in north-western Poland.

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Wismar

Wismar (Low German: Wismer), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (Hansestadt Wismar) is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city of Mecklenburg after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Zwickau

Zwickau (Polish: Ćwików; Czech: Cvikov) is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District.

See Administrative divisions of East Germany and Zwickau

See also

Subdivisions of East Germany

Subdivisions of former countries

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_East_Germany

Also known as Administrative division of the German Democratic Republic, Administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic, Districts of East Germany, Districts of the German Democratic Republic, East German Administrative Reform of 1952, Länder of East Germany, States of East Germany, Subdivisions of East Germany, Subdivisions of the German Democratic Republic.

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