page_title: List of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany
section_title: East Berlin
hierarchical_section_title: List of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany / Officeholders / East Berlin
context_page_description: GDR was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
  Until 1952, GDR was divided into 5 states, from north to south: Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia.
  From 1952 until 1990, GDR was divided into 14 districts, each named after their capitals, from north to south: Rostock, Neubrandenburg, Schwerin, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Magdeburg, Cottbus, Halle, Leipzig, Erfurt, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Gera and Suhl.
  Due to its special status, East Berlin was originally not counted as a Bezirk. In 1961, after the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the construction of the Berlin Wall, East Berlin came to be recognised in GDR administration as the Bezirk Berlin, though it retained a special status until the adoption of the revised 1968 Constitution.
context_section_description: Party leaders
  District leaders
caption: Boroughs of East Berlin (1987).
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