The Bezirk Erfurt was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Erfurt. The district was established, along with
some other small principalities. The Prussian territories around Erfurt, Mühlhausen and Nordhausen joined Thuringia in 1945. The coat of arms of Thuringia
(Stadtkreise): From north to south, the Bezirke were: *) The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt was named Bezirk Chemnitz for a short period at both the beginning and end
led the state church’s independence from the regime. Leich was born in Mühlhausen on 31 January 1927. His father was a jurist and the mayor of Schalkau