District of Halle Bezirk Halle
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990
Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Halle within the German Democratic Republic
Capital	Halle
Area
• 1989	8,771 km2 (3,387 sq mi)
Population
• 1989	1,776,500
Government
SED First Secretary
• 1952–1953	Bernard Koenen
• 1953–1954	Heinz Glaser
• 1954–1958	Franz Bruk
• 1958–1963	Bernard Koenen
• 1963–1971	Horst Sindermann
• 1971–1981	Werner Felfe
• 1981–1989	Hans-Joachim Böhme
• 1989–1990	Roland Claus
Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk
• 1952–1954	Werner Bruschke
• 1954–1958	Helmut Becker
• 1958–1966	Otto Leopold
• 1966–1984	Helmut Klapproth
• 1984–1990	Alfred Kolodniak
• 1990	Wolfgang Süss
• 1990	Klaus Keitel (as Regierungsbevollmächtigter)
History
• Established	1952
• Disestablished	1990
Preceded by Succeeded by Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952) Saxony-Anhalt Thuringia
Today part of	Germany

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

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 Saxony-Anhalt except Artern kreis, which became part of Thuringia.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Halle bordered with the Bezirke of Magdeburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, Leipzig, Gera and Erfurt.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 23 Kreise: 3 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 20 rural districts (Landkreise):

• Urban districts : Dessau; Halle; Halle-Neustadt.^[1]
• Rural districts : Artern; Aschersleben; Bernburg; Bitterfeld; Eisleben; Gräfenhainichen; Hettstedt; Hohenmölsen; Köthen; Merseburg; Naumburg; Nebra; Quedlinburg; Querfurt; Roßlau; Saalkreis; Sangerhausen; Weißenfels; Wittenberg; Zeitz.