East Berlin

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capital city former city historical political entity

East Berlin was the Soviet-controlled eastern sector of Berlin that served as the capital of East Germany during the Cold War.

Aliases (7)

Berlin ×6
Soviet sector of Berlin ×3
eastern Berlin ×2
Berlin (East Berlin as de facto capital) ×1
East Berlin (partly) ×1
Ost-Berlin ×1
former East Berlin ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	capital city → former city → historical political entity →
borderedBy	Berlin Wall → West Berlin →
capitalFrom	1949 →
capitalOf	German Democratic Republic →
capitalUntil	1990 →
continent	Europe →
controlledBy	Soviet Union →
country	German Democratic Republic →
demographicCharacteristic	predominantly German population →
dissolvedOn	1990-10-03 →
divisionResultOf	Allied occupation of Germany after World War II →
endTime	1990 →
governingParty	Socialist Unity Party of Germany →
governmentType	socialist state capital →
hadCentralSquare	Alexanderplatz →
hadCheckpoint	Checkpoint Charlie (border crossing to West Berlin) →
hadGovernmentBuilding	House of the Ministries → Palace of the Republic →
hadLandmark	Brandenburg Gate → Fernsehturm Berlin → Karl-Marx-Allee → Unter den Linden →
hadParliament	Volkskammer →
hasCurrency	East German mark →
hasLanguage	German →
locatedIn	Berlin → East Germany → Soviet occupation zone of Germany →
mergedInto	Berlin →
occupiedBy	Soviet Union →
officialName	Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic →
partOf	Berlin →
politicalSystem	one-party socialist system →
reintegratedWith	West Berlin →
separatedFrom	West Berlin →
shortName	Ost-Berlin →
significantEvent	German reunification → construction of the Berlin Wall → fall of the Berlin Wall →
startTime	1949 →
statusAfter1990	part of reunified Berlin →
timePeriod	Cold War →
usedAs	capital of East Germany → seat of government of East Germany →

Referenced by (55)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Democratic Women’s League of Germany → East German National People's Army → East German Stasi → FDGB → Free German Youth → National Front of the German Democratic Republic → Nationale Volksarmee → Nationale Volksarmee Landstreitkräfte → SED → Socialist Unity Party of Germany →	headquartersLocation
Bertolt Brecht → Erich Honecker → Günter Schabowski → Hans Modrow ("Berlin") → Otto Grotewohl ("Berlin") → Otto Grotewohl → Walter Ulbricht →	residence
East Berlin ("Berlin") → Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery → Langer See, Grünau ("eastern Berlin") → Lichtenberg ("eastern Berlin") → Soviet Military Headquarters in Karlshorst ("Berlin") →	locatedIn
Bertolt Brecht → Klaus Fuchs → Otto Grotewohl → Wilhelm Pieck →	placeOfDeath
Otto Grotewohl ("Berlin") → Otto Grotewohl → Wilhelm Pieck ("Berlin") →	workLocation
East Germany → East Germany ("Berlin (East Berlin as de facto capital)") →	capital
Berlin Wall → Checkpoint Charlie →	separated
American sector of Berlin ("Soviet sector of Berlin") → British sector of Berlin ("Soviet sector of Berlin") →	sharesBorderWith
Allied occupation of Germany →	appliesToJurisdiction
Bornholmer Strasse crossing →	borderBetween
West Berlin →	borderedBy
Berlin Wall →	borderWith
Soviet Military Headquarters in Karlshorst →	cityDistrictOf
East Side Gallery →	followsFormerBorderBetween
Nationale Volksarmee →	garrison
Nationale Volksarmee Landstreitkräfte →	garrisonLocation
British sector of Berlin →	hasBorder
State of Berlin →	historicalPredecessor
Berlin Crisis →	involvedCity
Mitte, Berlin ("East Berlin (partly)") →	locatedInFormerPoliticalEntity
American sector of Berlin ("Soviet sector of Berlin") →	oppositeEntity
Karlshorst ("former East Berlin") →	partOf
Lichtenberg →	partOfFormer
Basic Treaty between the FRG and the GDR (1972) →	placeSigned
Bornholmer Strasse crossing →	region
West Berlin →	separatedFrom
East Berlin ("Ost-Berlin") →	shortName
Lorraine Broughton →	worksInLocation