But back to the original question. I am not entirely certain I follow the question, but there is no simple two-sentence answer.
First off, despite the rantings of some conspiracy theorists, it was not George Kennan who proposed the plan for postwar occupation zones that placed Berlin as an enclave inside the Soviet zone. That was a British plan, presented to the European Advisory Commission in January 1944, to the utter surprise of John G. Winant, US Ambassador to the UK and US representative on the EAC. Apparently, the UK and USSR sandbagged the USA, as the UK proposal was almost immediately accepted by the Soviets. A US counterproposal placed the line on the edge of Berlin, but left the city in the Soviet Zone. Kennan did counsel that the Soviets wouldn't accept this, since it pushed the line deep into the territory they and the British had already accepted. The counterproposal went nowhere, as did US efforts to get the northwestern zone, with the Ruhr industrial region and Germany's major ports, to be the US zone.
On June 1, 1944, a draft Protocol on occupation zones was circulated by the EAC. On July 1, the Soviets proposed amending it to divide Berlin into zones as well, based on the existing administrative districts of Greater Berlin (Greater Berlin had been divided into 20 administrative districts in 1920).
In the Protocol of September 12, 1944, the Allied representatives agreed:
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The Berlin area (by which expression is understood the territory of "Greater Berlin" as defined by the law of the 27th April 1920) will be jointly occupied with by the armed force of the U.S.S.R., U.K. and U.S.A. assigned by the respective Commanders-in-Chief. For this purpose the territory of "Greater Berlin" will be divided into the following three parts:
North-Eastern part of "Greater Berlin" (districts of Pankow, Prenzlauerberg, Mitte, Weissensee, Friedrichshain, Lichtenberg, Treptow, Kopenick) will be occupied by the forces of the U.S.S.R.:
North-Western part of "Greater Berlin" (districts of Reinickendorf, Wedding, Tiergarten, Charlottenberg, Spandau, Wilmersdorf, will be occupied by the forces of ________
Southern part of "Greater Berlin" (districts of Zehlendorf, Steglitz, Schoneberg, Kreuzberg, Tempelhof, Neukolln) will be occupied by the forces of ________
The boundaries of districts within Greater Berlin referred to in the forgoing descriptions, are those which existed after the coming into effect of the decree published on 27th March, 1938 (Amtsblatt der Reichshauptstadt Berlin No. 13 of 27th March, 1938, page 215).
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The two blanks were because the US and the UK couldn't agree on who would get which sector. This and other contentious issues were soon resolved. By an Amendment dated November 14, 1944, in the first blank above, "the United Kingdom" was inserted, giving British forces control of the North-Western sector, and in the second blank, "the United States of America" was inserted, giving the US control of the Southern sector. The Sept. 12 Protocol was signed by Amb. Winant for the USA, Sir William Strang for the UK, and Ambassador Fyodor T. Gusev for the USSR. The Nov. 14 Amendment was signed by Philip E. Mosely for the USA, Strang for the UK, and Gusev for the USSR.
Subsequently, in 1945, the Protocol was further amended to allocate two districts from the UK sector as the French sector.
So, the "who" and "how" is (a) the German officials who drew up the 1920 administrative districts of Greater Berlin, (b) the Russian (Gusev or an advisor) who allocated the 20 districts among the three powers (but without designating which group of districts would be the American sector) and (c) Winant and Mosely, who accepted the Southern sector for the US. Somehow I don't think that is the answer you were looking for though.
