{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox Former Subdivision |common_name = Magdeburg |conventional_long_name = District of Magdeburg |native_name = ''Bezirk Magdeburg'' |subdivision = District (Bezirk) |nation = East Germany |image_flag = Flagge Magdeburg.svg |image_coat = Wappen Magdeburg.svg |image_map = District of Magdeburg in German Democratic Republic.svg |image_map_caption = Location of Bezirk Magdeburg within the German Democratic Republic |capital = Magdeburg |coordinates = |stat_area1= 11526 |stat_pop1 = 1,249,500 |stat_year1 = 1989 | leader1 = Alois Pisnik | leader2 = Kurt Tiedke | leader3 = Werner Eberlein | leader4 = Wolfgang Pohl | leader5 = Manfred Dunkel | year_leader1 = 1952–1979 | year_leader2 = 1979–1983 | year_leader3 = 1983–1989 | year_leader4 = 1989 | year_leader5 = 1989–1990 | title_leader = SED First Secretary |title_deputy = Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |deputy1 = Josef Hegen |deputy2 = Paul Hentschel |deputy3 = Bruno Kiesler {{small|(acting)}} |deputy4 = Paul Hentschel |deputy5 = Kurt Ranke |deputy6 = Siegfried Grünwald |deputy7 = Wolfgang Braun {{small|(as ''Regierungsbevollmächtigter'')}} |year_deputy1 = 1952–1953 |year_deputy2 = 1953–1956 |year_deputy3 = 1956–1957 |year_deputy4 = 1957–1959 |year_deputy5 = 1960–1985 |year_deputy6 = 1985–1990 |year_deputy7 = 1990 |p1 = Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952) |flag_p1 = Flagge Preußen - Provinz Sachsen.svg |s1 = Saxony-Anhalt |flag_s1 = Flag of Saxony-Anhalt (state).svg |s2 = Brandenburg |flag_s2 = Flag of Brandenburg.svg |year_start = 1952 |year_end = 1990 | today = Germany }}
The '''Bezirk Magdeburg''' was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Magdeburg.
==History== The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was abolished as part of the process of German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt except Havelberg district, passed to Brandenburg.
==Geography== ===Position=== The Bezirk Magdeburg bordered with the ''Bezirke'' of Schwerin, Potsdam, Halle and Erfurt. It bordered also with West Germany.
===Subdivision=== The ''Bezirk'' was divided into 22 ''Kreise'': 1 urban district (''Stadtkreis'') and 21 rural districts (''Landkreise''): *'''Urban district :''' Magdeburg. *'''Rural districts :''' Burg; Gardelegen; Genthin; Halberstadt; Haldensleben; Havelberg; Kalbe; Klötze; Loburg; Oschersleben; Osterburg; Salzwedel; Schönebeck; Seehausen; Staßfurt; Stendal; Tangerhütte; Wanzleben; Wernigerode; Wolmirstedt; Zerbst.
==See also== *Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category-inline|Magdeburg District (GDR)}}
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