East Berlin (deu)

East Berlin

East Berlin ranks 309th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Trondheim, Rijeka, and Incheon. Memorable people born in East Berlin include Nina Hagen, Paul Landers, and Christian Lorenz. Memorable people who died in East Berlin include Franz Fühmann, John Heartfield, and Bertolt Brecht. East Berlin has been the birth place of many actors, and swimmers and the death place of many politicians, and writers. East Berlin is located in Germany.

East Berlin was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Soviet occupation sector of Berlin. 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 recognize East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's authority to govern East Berlin. For most of its administrative existence, East Berlin was officially known as Berlin, capital of the GDR by the GDR government. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially reunified, East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia