Neubrandenburg district

Basic data
District capital:	Neubrandenburg
Area :	10,948 km²
Residents :	620,500 (1989)
License plate :	C.
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Striking buildings in the Neubrandenburg district on a GDR postage stamp from 1982

Council of the Neubrandenburg District (January 1990)

The district of Neubrandenburg was established as one of 14 districts by the administrative reform of 1952 after the dissolution of the federal states in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) . The district did not have a coat of arms. Occasionally the historic coat of arms of the city of Neubrandenburg was used as a symbol for the district. The district of Neubrandenburg was the third largest in terms of area and the third smallest in terms of residents. Accordingly, it was the most sparsely populated district with 57 inhabitants / km². It was the only district that, besides the Baltic Sea district of Rostock, had an, albeit small, stretch of coast (on the Stettiner Haff). The district bordered the districts of Rostock , Frankfurt , Potsdam and Schwerin as well as in the east on the VR Poland .

Administrative division

The district included the urban district of Neubrandenburg (from January 1, 1969) as well as the following districts:

1. Altentreptow
2. Anklam
3. Demmin
4. Malchin
5. Neubrandenburg-Land
6. Neustrelitz
7. Pasewalk
8. Prenzlau
9. Röbel / Müritz
10. Strasburg
11. Templin
12. Teterow
13. Ueckermünde
14. Were

With the re-establishment of the states in the course of the reunification of Germany in 1990, the districts were dissolved. The district of Neubrandenburg was mainly assigned to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The districts of Prenzlau, Templin and, following a referendum in 1992, also the communities of Bagemühl, Grünberg, Nechlin, Woddow, Wollschow-Menkin and the city of Brüssow of the district of Pasewalk as well as the communities of Fahrenholz, Güterberg, Jagow, Lemmersdorf, Lübbenow, Milow, Trebenow, Wilsickow and Wolfshagen of the Strasburg district came back to the state of Brandenburg .

With the district reform, which was implemented in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on June 12, 1994 and in the state of Brandenburg on December 6, 1993, larger administrative units emerged from the previous districts. The Mecklenburg Lake District , the largest district in Germany with the district town of Neubrandenburg, thus takes up roughly the (western) half of the former Neubrandenburg district.

Government and party leaders

Chair of the District Council

• 1952–1953: Wilhelm Steudte (1897–1973)
• 1953–1957: Hans Jendretzky (1897–1992)
• 1957–1959: Horst Brasch (1922–1989)
• 1959–1962: Kurt Guter (1921–2001)
• 1962–1967: Lothar Geißler (* 1927)
• 1967–1972: Adolf Garling (* 1925)
• 1972–1977: Gottfried Sperling (1921–1991)
• 1977–1990: Heinz Simkowski (1931–2008)
• 1990 -9999: Wolfgang Otto (* 1947)
• 1990 -9999: Martin Brick (government representative) (* 1939)

First secretaries of the SED district leadership

• 1952–1953: Willi Wiebershausen (1917–1958)
• 1953–1960: Max Steffen (1909–1988)
• 1960–1963: Georg Ewald (1926–1973)
• 1963–1989: Johannes Chemnitzer (* 1929)
• 1989 -9999: Wolfgang Herrmann (* 1939)
• 1989–1990: Jürgen Zelm (* 1953)

Population development

• 1955: 687,000
• 1960: 651.651
• 1965: 633.209
• 1975: 626.362
• 1981: 620.760
• 1988: 620.467
• 1989: 620.500

literature

• Christoph Wunnicke: The district of Neubrandenburg in 1989 , 2010, ISBN 978-3-933255-32-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "40 Years of the GDR" - State Central Administration for Statistics, May 1989