:Bezirk Rostock

{{Short description|District of East Germany}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}}

{{Infobox Former Subdivision

|common_name = Rostock

|conventional_long_name = District of Rostock

|native_name = Bezirk Rostock

|subdivision = District (Bezirk)

|nation = East Germany

|image_flag = File:Flagge_der_Hansestadt_Rostock.svg

|image_coat = Coat of arms of Bezirk Rostock.svg

|image_map = District of Rostock in German Democratic Republic.svg

|image_map_caption = Location of Bezirk Rostock within the German Democratic Republic

|capital = Rostock

|coordinates =

|stat_area1= 7075

|stat_pop1 = 916,500

|stat_year1 = 1989

| leader1 = Karl Mewis

| leader2 = Harry Tisch

| leader3 = Ernst Timm

| leader4 = Ulrich Peck

| year_leader1 = 1952–1961

| year_leader2 = 1961–1975

| year_leader3 = 1975–1989

| year_leader4 = 1989–1990

| title_leader = SED First Secretary

|title_deputy = Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk

|deputy1 = Erhard Holweger

|deputy2 = Hans Warnke

|deputy3 = Harry Tisch

|deputy4 = Karl Deuscher

|deputy5 = Willy Marlow

|deputy6 = Eberhard Kühl

|deputy7 = Götz Kreuer

|deputy8 = Hans-Joachim Kalendrusch {{small|(as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)}}

|year_deputy1 = 1952

|year_deputy2 = 1952–1959

|year_deputy3 = 1959–1961

|year_deputy4 = 1961–1969

|year_deputy5 = 1969–1986

|year_deputy6 = 1986–1989

|year_deputy7 = 1989–1990

|year_deputy8 = 1990

|p1 = Mecklenburg (1945–1952)

|flag_p1 = Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg.svg

|s1 = Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

|flag_s1 = Flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.svg

|year_start = 1952

|year_end = 1990

| today = Germany

}}

The Bezirk Rostock was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Rostock.

History

The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was dissolved following German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Geography

=Position=

The Bezirk Rostock, the northernmost of DDR, was situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea, in front of the Danish coasts. It bordered with the Bezirke of Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. It bordered also with Poland and West Germany.

=Subdivision=

The Bezirk was divided into 14 Kreise: 4 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 10 rural districts (Landkreise):

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