Common Name: | Neubrandenburg |
Conventional Long Name: | District of Neubrandenburg |
Native Name: | Bezirk Neubrandenburg |
Subdivision: | District (Bezirk) |
Nation: | East Germany |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Bezirk Neubrandenburg within the German Democratic Republic |
Capital: | Neubrandenburg |
Stat Area1: | 10948 |
Stat Pop1: | 620,500 |
Stat Year1: | 1989 |
Leader1: | Willi Wiebershausen |
Leader2: | Max Steffen |
Leader3: | Georg Ewald |
Leader4: | Johannes Chemnitzer |
Leader5: | Wolfgang Herrmann |
Leader6: | Jürgen Zelm |
Year Leader1: | 1952–1953 |
Year Leader2: | 1953–1960 |
Year Leader3: | 1960–1963 |
Year Leader4: | 1963–1989 |
Year Leader5: | 1989 |
Year Leader6: | 1989–1990 |
Title Leader: | SED First Secretary |
Title Deputy: | Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |
Deputy1: | Wilhelm Steudte |
Deputy2: | Hans Jendretzky |
Deputy3: | Horst Brasch |
Deputy4: | Kurt Guter |
Deputy5: | Lothar Geissler |
Deputy6: | Adolf Garling |
Deputy7: | Gottfried Sperling |
Deputy8: | Heinz Simkowski |
Deputy9: | Wolfgang Otto |
Deputy10: | Martin Brick |
Year Deputy1: | 1952–1953 |
Year Deputy2: | 1953–1957 |
Year Deputy3: | 1957–1959 |
Year Deputy4: | 1959–1962 |
Year Deputy5: | 1962–1967 |
Year Deputy6: | 1967–1972 |
Year Deputy7: | 1972–1977 |
Year Deputy8: | 1977–1990 |
Year Deputy9: | 1990 |
Year Deputy10: | 1990 |
P1: | Mecklenburg (1945–1952) |
Flag P1: | Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg.svg |
P2: | Brandenburg (1945–1952) |
Flag P2: | Flag of Brandenburg (1945-1952).svg |
S1: | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Flag S1: | Flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.svg |
S2: | Brandenburg |
Flag S2: | Flag of Brandenburg.svg |
Year Start: | 1952 |
Year End: | 1990 |
Today: | Germany |
The Bezirk Neubrandenburg was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Neubrandenburg.
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 mostly part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Also rural districts of Prenzlau and Templin (on 3 October 1990), municipalities of Nechlin, Wollschow, Woddow, Bagemühl and Grünberg with city of Brüssow in Pasewalk district and municipalities of Fahrenholz, Güterberg, Jagow, Lemmersdorf, Lübbenow, Milow, Trebenow, Wilsickow, Wismar (Uckerland) and Wolfshagen in Strasburg one part of the one of Brandenburg on 9 May 1992.
The Bezirk Neubrandenburg bordered with the Bezirke of Rostock, Schwerin, Potsdam and Frankfurt (Oder). It bordered also with Poland and a little part of it was located by the Stettin Bay, a lagoon separated from the Baltic Sea.
The Bezirk was divided into 15 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 14 rural districts (Landkreise):