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East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 sector
Allied Occupation Zones in Germany

The Allies of World War II powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during the period 1945?1949....
 of Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 that was established in 1945. The American, British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 sectors became West Berlin
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
, a de facto part of West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
. Despite its status as part of an occupied city, East Berlin was claimed as the capital of East Germany. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989 East Berlin was separated from West Berlin
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
 by the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a physical separation barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic , including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany....
.






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East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 sector
Allied Occupation Zones in Germany

The Allies of World War II powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during the period 1945?1949....
 of Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 that was established in 1945. The American, British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 sectors became West Berlin
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
, a de facto part of West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
. Despite its status as part of an occupied city, East Berlin was claimed as the capital of East Germany. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989 East Berlin was separated from West Berlin
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
 by the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a physical separation barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic , including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany....
. The East German government referred to East Berlin simply as "Berlin" or often "Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR" (Berlin, capital of the GDR). The term "Democratic Sector" was also used until the 1960s. (See also Naming conventions
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
)

The Western Allies
Western Allies

The Western Allies were the democracy and their colony peoples, within the broader coalition of Allies of World War II during World War II. The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the United Kingdom Commonwealth of Nations and part of the military of Poland , exiled forces from Occupied Europe , the United States, , Fran...
 (the USA, Britain and France) never formally acknowledged the authority of the East German government to govern East Berlin; the official Allied protocol recognized only the authority of the Soviet Union in East Berlin in accordance with the occupation status of Berlin as a whole. The United States Command Berlin, for example, published detailed instructions for U.S. military and civilian personnel wishing to visit East Berlin. In fact, the three Western commandants regularly protested the presence of the East German National People's Army
National People's Army

The National People?s Army was the military of the German Democratic Republic....
 (NVA) in East Berlin, particularly on the occasion of military parades. Nevertheless, the three Western Allies eventually established embassies in East Berlin in the 1970s, although they never recognized it as the capital of East Germany. Treaties instead used terms such as "seat of government."

On 3 October 1990, West and East Germany were reunited
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
, thus formally ending the existence of East Berlin.

East Berlin today

Since reunification, the German government has spent vast amounts of money on reintegrating the two halves of the city and bringing services and infrastructure in the former East Berlin up to the standard established in West Berlin. Despite this, there are still obvious differences between eastern and western Berlin. Eastern Berlin has a distinctly different visual aspect, partly because of the greater survival of prewar façades and streetscapes, some still showing signs of wartime damage, and partly because of the distinctive style of urban Stalinist architecture
Stalinist architecture

Stalinist architecture is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khruschev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture....
 used in the GDR. As in other former East German cities, a small number of GDR-era names commemorating socialist heroes have been preserved, such as Karl-Marx-Allee
Karl-Marx-Allee

The Karl-Marx-Allee is a monumental socialist boulevard built by the young GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte. Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx....
, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz or Rosa Luxemburg Square is a square in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.The square is dominated by the Volksb?hne as well as the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus, the headquarters of the German The Left Party.PDS....
 and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße; this followed a long process of review in which many such street names were deemed inappropriate and were changed. Still visible throughout former East Berlin are the characteristic "Ampelmännchen
Ampelmännchen

File:Ampelmann.svg is the symbolic person shown on traffic lights at pedestrian crossings in the former German Democratic Republic . Prior to the German reunification in 1990, the two German states had different forms for the Ampelm?nnchen, with a generic human figure in West Germany, and a generally male figure wearing a hat in the east....
" on some pedestrian traffic lights. These days they are also visible in parts of the former West Berlin following a civic debate about whether the "Ampelmännchen
Ampelmännchen

File:Ampelmann.svg is the symbolic person shown on traffic lights at pedestrian crossings in the former German Democratic Republic . Prior to the German reunification in 1990, the two German states had different forms for the Ampelm?nnchen, with a generic human figure in West Germany, and a generally male figure wearing a hat in the east....
" should be abolished or disseminated more widely.

Soviet and East German Commandants of East Berlin

Marx Engels Platz
Name Term
Nikolay Berzarin 2 May 1945 - 16 June 1945
Aleksandr Gorbetov 17 June 1945 - 19 November 1945
Dimitry Smirnov 19 November 1945 - 1 April 1946
Aleksandr Kotikov 1 April 1946 - 7 June 1950
Sergey Dienghin 7 June 1950 - April 1953
Pavel Dibrova April 1953 - 23 June 1956
Andrey Chamov 28 June 1956 - 26 February 1958
Nikolay Zakharov 26 February 1958 - 9 May 1961
Andrey Soloviev 9 May 1961 - 22 August 1962
Helmut Poppe 22 August 1962 - 31 May 1971
Artur Kunath 1 June 1971 - 31 August 1978
Karl-Heinz Drews 1 September 1978 - 31 December 1988
Wolfgang Dombrowski 1 January 1989 - 30 September 1990
Detlef Wendorf 1 October 1990 - 2 October 1990


Boroughs of East Berlin

Eastberlinboroughs
At the time of German reunification
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
, East Berlin comprised the boroughs of
  • Friedrichshain
    Friedrichshain

    Friedrichshain is a part of Berlin Boroughs of Berlin of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. From its creation in 1920 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a freestanding city borough....
  • Hellersdorf
    Hellersdorf

    Hellersdorf is a locality in the Boroughs of Berlin of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin. Between 1986 and Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was a borough in its own right, consisting of the current area of Hellersdorf as well as Berlin-Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf....
     (since 1986)
  • Hohenschönhausen
    Hohenschönhausen

    Hohensch?nhausen was a Boroughs of Berlin of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. It was created by splitting the localities of Hohensch?nhausen, Wartenberg , Falkenberg and the eastern part of Malchow off the 1920 Berlin-Weissensee borough....
     (since 1985)
  • Köpenick
    Köpenick

    K?penick is a locality in the Boroughs and localities of Berlin of Treptow-K?penick in Berlin. It is located in the south-east of the city and is best known for the Wilhelm Voigt....
  • Lichtenberg
    Lichtenberg

    Lichtenberg is the eleventh Boroughs of Berlin of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohensch?nhausen....
  • Marzahn
    Marzahn

    Marzahn is a locality within the boroughs of Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf of Berlin.Marzahn became part of Greater Berlin Act in 1920, as a part of the Lichtenberg district....
     (since 1979)
  • Mitte
    Mitte

    Berlin-Mitte or Mitte is the first and most central boroughs and localities of Berlin of Berlin . Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core....
  • Pankow
    Pankow

    Pankow [] is the third Boroughs of Berlin of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Berlin-Wei?ensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow....
  • Prenzlauer Berg
    Prenzlauer Berg

    Prenzlauer Berg is a former borough of Berlin situated in the eastern part of the city. In 2001 Prenzlauer Berg was combined with the former boroughs Pankow and Berlin-Wei?ensee under the name of Pankow....
  • Treptow
    Treptow

    Treptow is a former Boroughs of Berlin in the southeast of Berlin. It merged with K?penick to form Treptow-K?penick in 2001....
  • Weißensee
    Berlin-Weißensee

    Weissensee is a locality in the boroughs of Berlin of Pankow in Berlin, Germany, named for the small lake Wei?er See within it. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, Weissensee was a borough in its own right, consisting of the localities of Weissensee, Heinersdorf, Blankenburg , Karow and Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow....


Images of East Berlin


See also

  • History of Berlin
    History of Berlin

    Berlin is the capital city of reunited Germany. Berlin is a young city by European standards, founded in the 13th century.Early history...
  • Berlin Wall
    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was a physical separation barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic , including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany....
  • Bonn
    Bonn

    Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  • Cold War
    Cold War

    The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
  • Checkpoint Charlie
    Checkpoint Charlie

    Checkpoint Charlie" Checkpoint C" was the name given by the Western Allies to a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, located at the junction of Friedrichstra?e with Zimmerstra?e and Mauerstra?e, ....
  • Ghost station
    Ghost station

    Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnh?fe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's Berlin U-Bahn and Berlin S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War....
  • History of Germany since 1945
    History of Germany since 1945

    As a consequence of Germany's defeat in World War II and the onset of the Cold War, the country was split between the two global blocs in the East and West....
  • West Berlin
    West Berlin

    West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....


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