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District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990
Coat of arms of Dresden Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
Capital Dresden
Area
• 1989 6,738 km2 (2,602 sq mi)
Population
• 1989 1,757,400
Government
SED First Secretary
• 1952–1957 Hans Riesner
• 1957–1960 Fritz Reuter
• 1960–1973 Werner Krolikowski
• 1973–1989 Hans Modrow
• 1989–1990 Hans-Joachim Hahn
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk
• 1952–1958 Rudolf Jahn
• 1958–1961 Walter Weidauer
• 1961–1963 Günter Witteck
• 1963–1982 Manfred Scheler
• 1982–1989 Günter Witteck
• 1989–1990 Wolfgang Sieber
• 1990 Michael Kunze
• 1990 Siegfried Ballschuh (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
History
• Established 1952
• Disestablished 1990
Preceded by Succeeded by Saxony (1945–1952) Saxony
Today part of Germany

The Bezirk Dresden was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany that lasted from 1952 to 1990. Dresden would be reabsorbed back into Saxony after the reunification of Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Dresden.

The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished upon German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony.

The Bezirk Dresden was the easternmost Bezirk of East Germany. It, bordered on the 'Bezirke' of Cottbus, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt, as well as on Czechoslovakia and Poland. It was broadly similar in area to the later Direktionsbezirk Dresden, which functioned from 1990 to 2012.

The Bezirk was divided into 17 Kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 15 rural districts (Landkreise):

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