Bezirk Leipzig

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 of Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Leipzig.

District of Leipzig Bezirk Leipzig
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Leipzig within the German Democratic Republic
Capital	Leipzig
Area
• 1989	4,966 km2 (1,917 sq mi)
Population
• 1989	1,360,900
Government
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
• 1952	Karl Schirdewan
• 1953–1970†	Paul Fröhlich
• 1970–1989	Horst Schumann
• 1989–1990	Roland Wötzel
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk
• 1952–1959	Karl Adolphs
• 1959–1974	Erich Grützner
• 1974–1989	Rolf Opitz
• 1989–1990	Joachim Draber
• 1990–1990	Rudolf Krause (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
Legislature	Bezirkstag Leipzig
History
• Established	1952
• Disestablished	1990
Preceded by Succeeded by Saxony (1945–1952) Thuringia Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952) Saxony Thuringia
Today part of	Germany

History

The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished following German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony except kreise of Altenburg and Schmölln, became part of Thuringia.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Leipzig, correspondent to the area of the actual Direktionsbezirk Leipzig, bordered with the Bezirke of Halle, Cottbus, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Gera.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 13 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 12 rural districts (Landkreise):

• Urban district : Leipzig.
• Rural districts : Altenburg; Borna; Delitzsch; Döbeln; Eilenburg; Geithain; Grimma; Leipzig-Land; Oschatz; Schmölln; Torgau; Wurzen.

See also

• Direktionsbezirk Leipzig
• Administrative divisions of East Germany
• Bezirk Dresden
• Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt