{{Short description|District of East Germany}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} {{unreferenced|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox Former Subdivision |common_name = Suhl |conventional_long_name = District of Suhl |native_name = ''Bezirk Suhl'' |subdivision = District (Bezirk) |nation = East Germany |image_flag = Hissflagge Suhl.svg |image_coat = DDR Wappen Suhl.png |image_map = District of Suhl in German Democratic Republic.svg |image_map_caption = Location of Bezirk Suhl within the [[German Democratic Republic]] |capital = [[Suhl]] |coordinates = |stat_area1= 3856 |stat_pop1 = 595,200 |stat_year1 = 1989 | leader1 = Adolf Färber | leader2 = Kurt Schneidewind | leader3 = Otto Funke | leader4 = [[Hans Albrecht (politician)|Hans Albrecht]] | leader5 = Peter Pechauf | year_leader1 = 1952–1954 | year_leader2 = 1954–1956 | year_leader3 = 1956–1968 | year_leader4 = 1968–1989 | year_leader5 = 1989–1990 | title_leader = First Secretary of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]] |title_deputy = Chairman of the Council of the Bezirk |deputy1 = Fritz Sattler |deputy2 = Wilhelm Behnke |deputy3 = Arnold Zimmermann |deputy4 = Helmuth Vierling {{small|(acting)}} |deputy5 = Werner Ulbrich {{small|(as ''Regierungsbevollmächtigter'')}} |year_deputy1 = 1952–1958 |year_deputy2 = 1958–1967 |year_deputy3 = 1967–1990 |year_deputy4 = 1990 |year_deputy5 = 1990 |legislature = Bezirkstag Suhl |p1 = Thuringia |flag_p1 = Flag of Thuringia.svg |s1 = Thuringia |flag_s1 = Flag of Thuringia.svg |year_start = 1952 |year_end = 1990 | today = [[Germany]] }}
The '''Bezirk Suhl''' was a [[Administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic|district]] (''Bezirk'') of [[East Germany]]. The administrative seat and the main town was [[Suhl]].
==History== The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old [[Germany|German]] [[States of Germany|states]]. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished as a consequence of the [[German reunification]], becoming again part of the state of [[Thuringia]].
==Geography== ===Position=== The Bezirk Suhl, the westernmost and the smallest of the GDR, bordered with the ''Bezirke'' of [[Erfurt (Bezirk)|Erfurt]] and [[Gera (Bezirk)|Gera]]. It bordered also with [[West Germany]].
===Subdivision=== The ''Bezirk'' was divided into 9 ''Kreise'': 1 urban district (''Stadtkreis'') and 8 rural districts (''Landkreise''): *'''Urban district :''' [[Suhl]]. *'''Rural districts :''' [[Kreis Bad Salzungen|Bad Salzungen]]; [[Kreis Hildburghausen|Hildburghausen]]; [[Kreis Ilmenau|Ilmenau]]; [[Kreis Meiningen|Meiningen]]; [[Kreis Neuhaus|Neuhaus]]; [[Kreis Schmalkalden|Schmalkalden]]; [[Kreis Sonneberg|Sonneberg]]; [[Kreis Suhl-Land|Suhl-Land]].
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[[Category:Districts of East Germany|Suhl]] [[Category:20th century in Thuringia|Bezirk Suhl]] [[Category:Former states and territories of Thuringia]] [[Category:Suhl]] [[Category:South Thuringia]]