Schwerin district

Basic data
District capital:	Schwerin
Area :	8,672 km²
Residents :	595,200 (1989)
License plate :	`B.`
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The Schwerin district was established in 1952 after the dissolution of the federal states in the German Democratic Republic as one of a total of 14 districts . The district did not have a coat of arms . The historical coat of arms of the city of Schwerin was occasionally used as a symbol for the district. The Schwerin district owes its size and shape to the fact that the Potsdam district should only deal with questions of border security to West Berlin. Parts of the Brandenburg district of Westprignitz fell to the new Schwerin district, so as not to burden the Potsdam district with the border to West Germany.

Administrative division

The district included the urban district of Schwerin as well as the following districts:

With the re-establishment of the federal states on the territory of the GDR in 1990, the districts were dissolved. The district of Schwerin was assigned to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania without the district of Perleberg, which came to Brandenburg .

Government and party leaders

On January 3, 1990, pioneers of the GDR border troops began dismantling the border installations in the Schwerin district

Chair of the District Council

1952–1958: Wilhelm Bick (1903–1980)
1958–1960: Josef Stadler (1906–1984)
1960–1968: Michael Grieb (1921–2003)
1968–1989: Rudi Fleck (1930–2012)
1990: Georg Diederich (government representative, * 1949)

First secretaries of the SED district leadership

1952–1974: Bernhard Quandt (1903–1999)
1974–1989: Heinz Ziegner (* 1928)
1989–1990: Hans-Jürgen Audehm (* 1940)

Population development

1958: 634.060
1961: 618.900
1964: 593.477
1971: 598.150
1981: 590.135
1989: 595.200

Individual evidence

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

[Jahre-1] "40 Years of the GDR" - State Central Administration for Statistics, May 1989