Football club (GDR)
A football club was a specially funded, performance- oriented athletic club in the East German football. The ten football clubs in the GDR existed in this form from 1965/66 to 1990 since 1953, there is also the a football club very similar SG Dynamo Dresden.
General
Since the introduction of sports clubs from the mid-1950s the football sections largely dominated the game operation of the football league. As a result of a decision of DTSB officials of the football was the end of 1965 a special position in competitive sports system of the GDR with the aim to further raise the level of the league and the top-level football to promote targeted. For all the sports clubs the football sections were removed. Ten sections were determined to soccer clubs and thus received in December 1965 and in January 1966 the status of an independent sports clubs. Except for FC Carl Zeiss Jena all were located in district capitals, if you look East Berlin district. It provided for a maximum of a football club per district, where Berlin was an exception. In addition to the two state- or military -guided clubs BFC Dynamo and FC forward there arose as a civilian counterweight to the first FC Union a third football club. This is remarkable, as that actually only the strongest football sections for a football club formation came into question, however, Union precursor TSC Berlin was at the time only second division. Six more, some higher class sports clubs, however, lost their football sections, which were affiliated to company sports teams.
A special position is occupied by the SG Dynamo Dresden. She was named after never a football club, but a sports community in which, however, only football was operated. Founded on 12 April 1953 but came to her as a football center of gravity of the Sports Association Dynamo a special promotion to to that of the football club was like. Another special feature of the FC forward dar. This supported by the Army Sports Association Football Club played Forward from 1966 to 1971 as FC Vorwärts Berlin in the capital of the GDR. He has also been " delegated " in connection with the relocation of ASK Vorwärts Berlin to Frankfurt ( Oder) in this district capital and entered from then on under the name FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder).
The promotion of sports clubs or football clubs as the sole power centers led to the implementation of the DFV - football decision in 1970 to a politically desired two-class society in the football league: The significantly funded and working in a largely professional conditions clubs dominated the game operation in every respect. The best company sports teams (BSG ) were, however, only as a reservoir of talented young players who have been " delegated " later to the big football clubs. The player transfers were not made according to the typical procedure in the GDR had funds, but in the course of the concentration of power and handled with sport politically justified necessity. After 1954, therefore, was only once a BSG team GDR football champions: in 1964 the BSG Chemie Leipzig, which was, however, composed of two players resolved sports clubs in the previous year. From 1968 to 1991, however, always football clubs were on the first three places in the league table. A similar situation also existed in the Handball - Oberliga the GDR, where the last five sports clubs dominated the championship against the BSGen.
In the course of turning the football club acquired in 1990 the status of registered associations. Five of them - Union, Erfurt, Jena, Magdeburg and Rostock - were not renamed after the turn, with Rot-Weiß Erfurt but at least got a new club logo. The first FC Lok Leipzig went to the newly established total VfB Leipzig. The four other football clubs gave themselves new names. The HFC removing the name "chemistry", the BFC Dynamo Berlin and became the FC Vorwärts Frankfurt from 1991 was initially FC Victoria 91 Frankfurt ( Oder) and from 1992 Frankfurter FC Viktoria 91 In the case of CFCs, the new name was not least because of the Re naming the city Karl- Marx-Stadt Chemnitz necessary, which is why the club then called Chemnitz FC. Later, the FC Berlin took back to his former name BFC Dynamo; the same applies for the 1st FC Lok Leipzig as well as in the meantime renamed 1st FC Dynamo Dresden SG Dynamo Dresden. Six of the eleven former football academies - Union, Dresden, Jena, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Rostock - also lead yet again and their club logos from the communist era.
List of East German football clubs
Legend:
- Logo: Shows the logo of the football club.
- Name: Lists the name of the football club.
- Foundation Day: Call the founding of the football club.
- Logo of the Sport Club: Shows the logo of the sports club, from its football section was formed the football club.
- Sports Club: Lists the name of the sports club, from its football section was formed the football club.
- Today's club logo: Displays the current logo of the successor club of the football club.
- Current Name: Lists the current name of the successor of the association football clubs.