DDR-Oberliga

The football league was the highest division in football match operation of the DDR and determined the GDR Champion. It began in 1949 as a premier league of the German Sports Committee ( DS- League ) and ended in 1991 as a premier league of the Northeast German Football Association ( NOFV- Oberliga ).

Foundation

After 1948 and 1949 East zones Championships took place in football, the German sports committee founded in the summer of 1949, a central Football League for the Soviet zone of occupation, the first recorded their gaming operations under the name Ostzonenliga and from November 1949 DS- league sources said. For the first season 1949/50, the champion and runner- East Zone of the five states of Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony -Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia had qualified. The Berlin State champion played in the final of the German Championship and only from the season 1950/51, all of East Berlin clubs in the German Sport Committee of the GDR were integrated. Saxony with many play strong teams received an additional third place. The League was completed by the top three teams in the FDGB goblet of the year 1949. Such were the Cup Winners wagon Dessau, the Cup finalist Gera Süd and the CCUs Horch Zwickau as the winner of the duel for third place, with Zwickau against the BSG Carl Zeiss Jena after two draws prevailed until the second replay.

Thus finally the zone league started with 14 teams following:

  • Zsg Anker Wismar ( Master Mecklenburg -Vorpommern)
  • BSG forward Schwerin ( Second Mecklenburg -Vorpommern)
  • BSG People's Voice Babelsberg ( Brandenburg Master )
  • BSG Franz Mehring Marga ( Second Brandenburg)
  • SG free Imfelde Hall ( master of Saxony -Anhalt)
  • SG Blue and White Stendal ( Second Sachsen- Anhalt)
  • SG Dresden- Friedrichstadt ( Master of Saxony)
  • SG unit Meerane (second Saxony)
  • Zsg Industry Leipzig ( Saxony third parties )
  • SG Fortuna Erfurt ( Thuringia Master )
  • SG Altenburg- North (second Thuringia)
  • BSG wagon Dessau ( fdgb Cup Winner )
  • BSG Gera Süd ( fdgb Cup finalist )
  • Zsg Horch Zwickau ( third in the fdgb Cup )

Even during the current season, the GDR was founded so that the first East German football champion was celebrated on the end of the season with Horch Zwickau. After 1949/50, still served the national league as a substructure of the DS- League, set up by the season 1950/51 to the GDR - League as a second division football in the GDR. The first league called henceforth the Oberliga, titled in the West German media for the delimitation of the DFB Oberligen as zones or DDR - Oberliga.

Political influences

In the following years, the league came under massive party and sport political influence. In violation of the Four-Power status, the three East Berlin Teams SG Union Oberschoeneweide, VfB Pankow and Lichtenberg SC 47 were withdrawn from the entire Berlin city league and incorporated into the DDR - Oberliga for the season 1950/51. The runner- SG Dresden- Friedrichstadt was dissolved for political reasons and replaced by the police sports club Dynamo Dresden. 1951/52, the league has ballooned to 19 teams, as the new sports club of Military Sports Association forward with the forward SV Leipzig needed to get a Erstligaplatz and actually descended VfB Pankow Berlin- political reasons should remain in the league. After 1953 with the BSG Motor (formerly Union) Oberschoeneweide the last Berlin team was relegated from the top league, the first SV forward Leipzig was moved to Berlin in 1954 had to Dynamo Dresden to Berlin move. In the same year was transplanted at the instigation of the officials Rostock league team BSG Empor Lauter from the Erzgebirge in the Baltic port city for SC Empor.

Structural changes

Also in 1954 changed many premier league teams their names, from company sports were sports clubs:

  • BSG bismuth Aue > bismuth SC Karl -Marx-Stadt
  • BSG activist Brieske East > SC activist Brieske - Senftenberg
  • BSG Rotation Dresden> SC unit
  • BSG Turbine Erfurt> SC turbine
  • BSG Turbine Hall > SC Chemie Halle- Leuna
  • BSG Chemie Leipzig > SC locomotive
  • BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig> SC rotation

After the league had reached in the 1954/55 season with 14 teams their final number of participants, the Expert Committee of the German football sports committee waited again with a profound innovation. According to the political model Soviet Union had to be played in 1956 in the East German football following the calendar year rhythm. For this purpose, a transitional round of 13 match days has been inserted in the fall of 1955, in which there was no master and no losers.

While there until 1955, no club has managed to permanently establish as a top team, crystallized in 1956 with the first bismuth SC Karl- Marx-Stadt and then use the ASK Vorwärts Berlin clubs out, dominated the league in the next few years. In 1958, founded this year DDR Football Association (DFV ) took over the organization of the league, which again returned to the autumn - spring cycle starting from 1961. The Championship 1963/64, ended with the biggest upset in league history. In Leipzig, the football was reorganized once again, with the SC Leipzig should be a central focus football with the supposedly best players emerge. The ineligible player in the previous Lok clubs and rotation were assigned to the BSG Chemie Leipzig. But the so-called " rest of Leipzig " was completely surprising end of the season GDR Champion, while the SC Leipzig finished only third place.

Since the GDR football so far played only a minor role internationally, it was the turn of 1965/66 again a structural change. By outsourcing of football sections of the sports clubs following new football clubs were founded:

  • Berliner FC Dynamo
  • 1 FC Union Berlin ( until 1966 in a league )
  • FC Vorwärts Berlin
  • FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt
  • Hallescher FC chemistry
  • 1 FC Lok Leipzig
  • FC Carl Zeiss Jena
  • FC Karl- Marx-Stadt
  • 1 FC Magdeburg
  • FC Hansa Rostock

Subscription Master

From 1971, dominated for nearly a decade, the teams of SG Dynamo Dresden and FC Magdeburg the first league. Until 1978 Dynamo was five times and three times the FCM GDR Champion. In 1979 the era of the Stasi mined from BFC Dynamo, the ten times in a row won the league title until 1988. However, it was later found that this also tampering with the referee played a role. The six-time champion of the 1950s and 1960s, the ASK / FC Vorwärts Berlin was in the 1970s, a victim of the failed policies of the Army Sports Club forward. This offset the club in 1971, three years after his last title win, to Frankfurt ( Oder), with the result that the army footballers descended for the first time in 1977 and 1988 permanently from the league. The last two regular league seasons 1988/89 and 1989/90 in turn ended the SG Dynamo Dresden as a master, which thus came to eight title wins.

Completion

The league season 1990/91 was held to determine the NOFV- football champion mainly for qualifying for the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga DFB. Master was the FC Hansa Rostock.

It qualified for the 1st Bundesliga

  • FC Hansa Rostock
  • Dynamo Dresden

For the 2nd Bundesliga

  • FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt
  • Hallescher FC chemistry
  • Chemnitz FC
  • FC Carl Zeiss Jena
  • 1 FC Lok Leipzig
  • Stahl Brandenburg

Records

  • Record - champions: BFC Dynamo (10 )
  • Best point: FC Carl Zeiss Jena * ( 1097 )
  • League games: BSG bismuth Aue * ( 1019)
  • Record Player: Eberhard Vogel, FC Karl -Marx -Stadt / FC Carl Zeiss Jena ( 440)
  • Record scorer: Joachim Streich, Hansa Rostock / 1 FC Magdeburg ( 229)
  • Spectator section: 14,005 (1953 /54)
  • Goals per game: 3.85 (1950 /51)

* including previous

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