East Berlin

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East Berlin
Ost-Berlin
Восточный Берлин
Berlin (Ost)

Capital of East Germany (unrecognised as

such by the Western Bloc); Soviet-occupied
sector of Berlin (recognised as such by the
Western Bloc).

→
← 1949–1990
→

Flag Coat of arms

The four occupation zones of Berlin.

East Berlin is shown in red.
Governing Mayor

• 1948- Friedrich Ebert, Jr. (SED)

1967 (first)

• 1991 (last) Thomas Krüger (SDP)

Historical era Cold War

• Established 1949

• Reunification 3 October 1990

Area

• 1989 409 km2 (158 sq mi)

Population

• 1989 1,279,212

Density 3,127.7 /km2 (8,100.6 /sq mi)

Part of a series on the

History of Berlin

Margraviate of Brandenburg (1157–1806)

Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918)

German Empire (1871–1918)

Free State of Prussia (1918–1947)

 Weimar Republic (1919–1933)

 1920s Berlin
 Greater Berlin Act

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

 Welthauptstadt Germania
 Bombing of Berlin in World War II
 Battle of Berlin

West Germany and East Germany (1945–1990)

 West Berlin and East Berlin

 Berlin Wall
 Berlin Blockade (1948–1949)
 Berlin Crisis of 1961
 "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963)
 "Tear Down This Wall" (1987)

Federal Republic of Germany(1990–present)

 History of Germany and History of Europe

See also

 Timeline of Berlin

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East Berlin was the capital city of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990.
Formally, it was the Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and
French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989,
East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. The Western Allied powers
did not recognise East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's authority to govern East
Berlin. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially reunified, East and West Berlin
formally reunited as the city of Berlin.

Contents

 1Overview
 2East Berlin today
 3Soviet and East German Commandants of East Berlin
 4Boroughs of East Berlin
 5Images of East Berlin
 6See also
 7References
 8External links
Overview[edit]
With the London Protocol of 1944signed on September 12, 1944, the United States, the
United Kingdom and the Soviet Union decided to divide Germany into three occupation
zones and to establish a special area of Berlin, which was occupied by the three Allied
Forces together.[1] In May 1945, the Soviet Union installed a city government for the whole
city that was called "Magistrate of Greater Berlin", which existed until 1947. After the war,
the Allied Forces initially administered the city together within the Allied Kommandatura,
which served as the governing body of the city. However, in 1948 the Soviet representative
left the Kommandatura and the common administration broke apart during the following
months. In the Soviet sector, a separate city government was established, which continued
to call itself