Commander of the Soviet Sector of Berlin
The commander of the Soviet sector of Berlin was one of the four city commanders of Berlin who represented the Red Army in the Interallied Military Command (later: Allied Command ). The Allied Command was the body with which the four occupying powers, the USA , Great Britain , France and the Soviet Union, exercised control over what was then the four-sector city after the Second World War from July 4, 1945 . She was subordinate to the Allied Control Council . Until July 4th, the Red Army ruled the city alone.
When the GDR was founded in 1949, administrative sovereignty was transferred to the East Berlin magistrate . However, the representative of the Soviet Control Commission in Berlin remained the military commander in East Berlin .
After the wall was built, a city commandant was appointed for East Berlin in 1962 . This function was exercised by a general of the East German NVA until it was abolished in 1990 .
The commanders
Commanders of the Soviet Sector
| army | Period | |
| Nikolai Bersarin | GSSD | April 28, 1945 - June 16, 1945 |
| Alexander Gorbatov | GSSD | June 17, 1945 - November 19, 1945 |
| Dmitry Smirnov | GSSD | November 19, 1945 - April 1, 1946 |
| Alexander Kotikov | GSSD | April 1, 1946 - November 10, 1949 |
Representative of the Soviet Control Commission in Berlin
| army | Period | |
| Alexander Kotikov | GSSD | November 11, 1949 - June 7, 1950 |
| Sergei Dengin | GSSD | June 7, 1950 - May 28, 1953 |
| Pyotr Dibrova | GSSD | May 28, 1953 - June 23, 1956 |
| Andrei Tschamow | GSSD | June 28, 1956 - February 26, 1958 |
| Matwei Sakharov | GSSD | February 26, 1958 - May 9, 1961 |
| Andrei J. Solovyov | GSSD | May 9, 1961 - August 22, 1962 |
City commanders of East Berlin
| army | Period | |
| Helmut Poppe | NVA | August 23, 1962 - May 31, 1971 |
| Artur Kunath | NVA | June 1, 1971 - August 31, 1978 |
| Karl-Heinz Drews | NVA | September 1, 1978 - December 31, 1988 |
| Wolfgang Dombrowski | NVA | January 1, 1989 - September 30, 1990 |
| Detlef Wendorf | NVA | October 1, 1990 - October 2, 1990 |
See also
- Commander of the American Sector of Berlin
- Commander of the British Sector of Berlin
- Commander of the French Sector of Berlin
- Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany and their Commander-in-Chief
- Military liaison missions
literature
- Gerhard Keiderling: The principle of unanimity prevailed. The Allied Command 1945–1948 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 2000, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 67-72 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Administrative sovereignty also in Berlin. Major General Kotikow hands over the administrative functions to the magistrate. In: Neue Zeit , November 13, 1949, p. 7
- ^ Communication from the Ministry of National Defense. In: Neues Deutschland , August 24, 1962, p. 1