:Bezirk Gera
{{Short description|District of East Germany}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox Former Subdivision
|common_name = Gera
|conventional_long_name = District of Gera
|native_name = Bezirk Gera
|subdivision = District (Bezirk)
|nation = East Germany
|image_flag = Hissflagge Gera.svg
|image_coat = DDR Wappen Gera.png
|image_map = District of Gera in German Democratic Republic.svg
|image_map_caption = Location of Bezirk Gera within the German Democratic Republic
|capital = Gera
|coordinates =
|stat_area1= 4004
|stat_pop1 = 742,000
|stat_year1 = 1989
| leader1 = Otto Funke
| leader2 = Heinz Glaser
| leader3 = Paul Roscher
| leader4 = Herbert Ziegenhahn
| leader5 = Erich Postler
| year_leader1 = 1952–1955
| year_leader2 = 1955–1959
| year_leader3 = 1959–1963
| year_leader4 = 1963–1989
| year_leader5 = 1989
| title_leader = SED First Secretary
|title_deputy = Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk
|deputy1 = Lydia Poser
|deputy2 = Albert Wettengel
|deputy3 = Horst Wenzel
|deputy4 = Rudolf Bahmann
|deputy5 = Joachim Mittasch {{small|(acting)}}
|deputy6 = Karl-Heinz Fleischer
|deputy7 = Werner Ulbrich
|deputy8 = Helmut Luck
|deputy9 = Peter Lindlau {{small|(as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)}}
|year_deputy1 = 1952–1959
|year_deputy2 = 1959–1965
|year_deputy3 = 1965–1973
|year_deputy4 = 1973–1977†
|year_deputy5 = 1977
|year_deputy6 = 1977–1983
|year_deputy7 = 1983–1990
|year_deputy8 = 1990
|year_deputy9 = 1990
|p1 = Thuringia
|flag_p1 = Flag of Thuringia.svg
|s1 = Thuringia
|flag_s1 = Flag of Thuringia.svg
|year_start = 1952
|year_end = 1990
| today = Germany
}}
The Bezirk Gera was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and main town was Gera.
History
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, replacing the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished following German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Thuringia.
Geography
=Position=
The Bezirk Gera had borders with the Bezirke of Suhl, Erfurt, Halle, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt, as well as with West Germany.
=Subdivision=
The Bezirk was divided into 13 Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 11 rural districts (Landkreise):
- Urban districts : Gera; Jena.
- Rural districts : Eisenberg; Gera-Land; Greiz; Jena-Land; Lobenstein; Pößneck; Rudolstadt; Saalfeld; Schleiz; Stadtroda; Zeulenroda.
References
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{{Bezirke DDR}}
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