Leipzig administrative district
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| Basic data | |
| State : | Saxony |
| Administrative headquarters : | Leipzig |
| Area : | 4,387.62 km² |
| Residents : | 1,069,441 (August 31, 2007) |
| Population density : | 244 inhabitants per km² |
| District structure: | 94 municipalities in five rural districts and one urban district |
| Regional Council | |
| District President : | Walter Christian Steinbach |
District government address : |
Braustraße 2 04107 Leipzig |
| Website : | www.rpl.sachsen.de |
| Location of the administrative district of Leipzig in Saxony | |
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The administrative district of Leipzig was one of three administrative districts within the Free State of Saxony . It was located in the northwest of the state and was built on January 1, 1991 by resolution of the Saxon state government on November 27, 1990. With around 1 million inhabitants, it was the smallest of the three administrative districts in the Free State of Saxony.
As early as the middle of the 19th century, there were state middle authorities in the Kingdom of Saxony, which at the time were called "district chiefs " and which have changed their borders several times in the course of history. In the Third Reich , the Saxon district chiefs were renamed administrative districts based on the Prussian model; In 1943 this administrative structure was dissolved. After the Second World War , administrative districts should initially be established again, but this intention was abandoned in 1947.
After the dissolution of the federal states in the GDR in 1952, state districts were established. Spatially, the administrative district of Leipzig coincided with the former GDR district of Leipzig with the exception of the old districts of Altenburg and Schmölln, which are now part of Thuringia.
Only with the re-establishment of the state of Saxony in 1990 was the basis for the formation of new government districts created. In the course of the regional reform of Saxony in 2008, the regional council was transformed into the regional directorate of the Leipzig administrative district . The new district is smaller by the former district of Döbeln , which belongs to the new district of central Saxony and thus to the administrative district of Chemnitz .
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District President
- 1991–2008: Walter Christian Steinbach , then until 2010 President of the regional directorate
