City district (GDR)
The name Stadtkreis stood in the GDR for the city as an administrative and territorial unit of the state .
City districts were chaired by an elected city council. The city council was at her side as the executive body . In the local lexicon of the GDR from 1986, each district capital and in some districts also some larger cities are assigned a city district. Since the districts in the GDR, with the exception of the Rügen district and the Saalkreis, were named after the respective district town, the urban districts differed from them by the addition of "-Stadt" in contrast to "-Land" (example: Greifswald-Land, district Greifswald City).
A special case was East Berlin , which from September 7, 1961 had the status of a district in its entirety. The individual city districts of East Berlin in turn each had the position of a city district.
According to the provisions of the “Law on the Self-Administration of Municipalities and Districts in the GDR (Municipal Constitution)” of May 17, 1990, municipalities that are not part of the district are for the first time no longer referred to as “urban districts”, but solely as “urban districts”.
See also
literature
- Karla Balkow, Werner Christ: Local Lexicon of the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1986.