:Bezirk Suhl

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{{Infobox Former Subdivision

|common_name = Suhl

|conventional_long_name = District of Suhl

|native_name = Bezirk Suhl

|subdivision = District (Bezirk)

|nation = East Germany

|image_flag = Hissflagge Suhl.svg

|image_coat = DDR Wappen Suhl.png

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

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

|capital = Suhl

|coordinates =

|stat_area1= 3856

|stat_pop1 = 595,200

|stat_year1 = 1989

| leader1 = Adolf Färber

| leader2 = Kurt Schneidewind

| leader3 = Otto Funke

| leader4 = Hans Albrecht

| leader5 = Peter Pechauf

| year_leader1 = 1952–1954

| year_leader2 = 1954–1956

| year_leader3 = 1956–1968

| year_leader4 = 1968–1989

| year_leader5 = 1989–1990

| title_leader = First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party

|title_deputy = Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk

|deputy1 = Fritz Sattler

|deputy2 = Wilhelm Behnke

|deputy3 = Arnold Zimmermann

|deputy4 = Helmuth Vierling {{small|(acting)}}

|deputy5 = Werner Ulbrich {{small|(as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)}}

|year_deputy1 = 1952–1958

|year_deputy2 = 1958–1967

|year_deputy3 = 1967–1990

|year_deputy4 = 1990

|year_deputy5 = 1990

|legislature = Bezirkstag Suhl

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

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 as a consequence of the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Thuringia.

Geography

=Position=

The Bezirk Suhl, the westernmost and the smallest of the GDR, bordered with the Bezirke of Erfurt and Gera. It bordered also with West Germany.

=Subdivision=

The Bezirk was divided into 9 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 8 rural districts (Landkreise):

References