The Bezirk Gera was a district

Administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic

The Administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic were constituted in two different forms during the country's 41-year-long history. The Republic first retained the traditional German division into federated states called Länder, but in 1952 replaced them with arbitrarily-drawn...

 (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and main town was Gera

Gera

Gera, the third-largest city in the German state of Thuringia , lies in east Thuringia on the river Weiße Elster, approximately 60 kilometres to the south of the city of Leipzig and 80 kilometres to the east of Erfurt...

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History

The district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, replacing the old German

Germany

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States of Germany

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. After October 3, 1990, it was disestablished due to German reunification

German reunification

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, becoming again part of the state of Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

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Position

The Bezirk Gera had borders with the Bezirke of Suhl

Suhl (Bezirk)

The Bezirk Suhl was a district of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Suhl.-History:The district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states...

, Erfurt

Erfurt (Bezirk)

The Bezirk Erfurt was a district of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Erfurt.-History:The district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states...

, Halle

Halle (Bezirk)

The Bezirk Halle was a district of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Halle.-History:The district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states...

, Gera

Leipzig (Bezirk)

The Bezirk Leipzig was a district of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Leipzig.-History:The district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states...

 and Karl-Marx-Stadt

Karl-Marx-Stadt (Bezirk)

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, also known as Bezirk Chemnitz, was a district of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Karl-Marx-Stadt, renamed Chemnitz after the reunification of Germany.-History:...

, as well as with West Germany

West Germany

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Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 13 kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 11 rural districts (Landkreise):

• Urban districts : Gera
  Gera
  Gera, the third-largest city in the German state of Thuringia , lies in east Thuringia on the river Weiße Elster, approximately 60 kilometres to the south of the city of Leipzig and 80 kilometres to the east of Erfurt...
  
  ; Jena
  Jena
  Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...
  
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• Rural districts : Eisenberg; Gera-Land; Greiz; Jena-Land; Lobenstein; Pößneck; Rudolstadt; Saalfeld; Schleiz; Stadtroda; Zeulenroda.