List of East German sport clubs
A Sport Club (SC ) was a specially funded, performance -oriented athletic club in the GDR sports system.
Sports clubs emerged in the GDR from 1954. Founded they were initially of so-called sports associations, which served as umbrella organizations for sport associations of individual union areas. In the early 1960s squared GDR sports management system and established a district sports clubs. The sports clubs existed in this form until the turn of 1990, when they were either disbanded or were given the club status after West German model.
- 3.1 List of GDR sports clubs 1965
- 4.1 List of GDR sports clubs 1990
General
As early as 1950 many company sports teams (BSG ) were developed in the GDR. A targeted promotion of elite athletes was hardly as possible. Therefore, the sports leadership of the GDR forced the formation of sports clubs. A sports club served the competitive sports and was the BSG preceded by the continued existence for the exercise of popular sports. The best athletes in the company sports teams were - often in childhood - " delegated " to the sports clubs. There they were often far better training facilities available and they were cared much more intense, but they came in many cases with the common GDR doping system in contact. The sports clubs have benefited from the close-knit with them children and youth sports schools. Given the enormous international success, the East German athletes won at Olympic Games and World and European Championships, the sport club concept had proven itself.
Recognizable sports clubs were already in name on her uniform code "SC". Exceptions to this were the Army Sports Club of the Army Sports Club forward ( ASK), the Gymnastics and Sports Club Berlin (TSC ) and the parachuting club Dynamo Eilenburg (FSC). The largest sports club in the GDR was the SC Dynamo Berlin. In the individual sports clubs only selected sports were trained focus. Example of this are the winter sports clubs SC tractor Oberwiesenthal, ASK forward Oberhof, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis and SC Dynamo Klingenthal.
Sports Clubs Sports Associations in the 1950s
The " directive of the Politburo of the SED for further rapid upward development of physical culture and sport" from July 13, 1954 had the goal to promote the competitive sports. Ultimately, it caused the formation of sports clubs. Background were primarily the quest for international recognition and propaganda purposes. Due to the expected high for targeted promotion medal haul in international competitions superiority of the socialist system in the Soviet bloc against the capitalist western countries should be suggested.
As in the GDR to the Soviet model central sports associations had been formed on the basis of trade union structure resulting from a decision of the German Sport Committee of 3 April 1950, which sports club establishment was up to this. Then called 16 of the 18 sports associations (except for the SV Medicine and Post) usually one, in a few cases, several sports clubs to life. In general, the Sports Club was located in a city in which a powerful VEB of the respective trade union area took over the function of the carrier operation. So there was, for example, the bismuth SC Karl- Marx-Stadt in the city in which the Wismut had their headquarters (district Chemnitz- Sigmar ).
List of GDR sports clubs 1956
The first small changes to the Sport Club network resulted in the first years of its existence. Thus, the SC motor Berlin became the TSC Oberschoeneweide on 16 June 1957. In the same year the SC Stahl Riesa was dissolved and its sections again the BSG Stahl Riesa affiliated. 4 December 1957 merged structure Klingenthal and the winter ski - center of gravity of the Sports Association for the SC Dynamo Dynamo Klingenthal. On June 30, 1958, Chemistry and Science Leuna - Halle Halle Halle merged to the new SC Chemistry. In 1960, the removal of the ice hockey section of Vorwärts Berlin and its delegation to ASK forward Crimmitschau followed. Also in 1960, the SC progress Weissenfels was dissolved and its sections connected again to the BSG Fortschritt White Rock, in 1961 it came to the resolution of the ASK forward Erfurt.
District Sports Clubs in the 1960s to the 1980s
From 1961, on government arrangement, a greater concentration of clubs. Ideally, each district should have a sports club along with KJS, which is to settle in the district capital. At the beginning of the 1960s there were in almost all districts of sports clubs, who had founded the sports associations. No sports clubs had the districts Potsdam, Frankfurt and Neubrandenburg. Therefore made at the instigation of the local district lines towards the creation of the SC Potsdam ( 1961) and the Frankfurt SC and the SC Neubrandenburg (both 1962).
The fact that the sports clubs of sports associations from 1960 completely evaded the district sports clubs, manifests itself next to among other things, in several mergers and name changes. In Berlin, where in 1960 five sports clubs (Dynamo, forward, unity, rotation and Oberschoeneweide ) existed, the number should be reduced by formation of a large civilian sports clubs. This was done by merging unit and rotation Berlin with the TSC Oberschoeneweide for TSC Berlin. In Cottbus district was 1963 instead of the dissolved SC activist Brieske - Senftenberg SC Cottbus in the district capital. In the Karl -Marx-Stadt district also 1963 SC bismuth was dissolved and Motor Karl- Marx-Stadt renamed SC Karl- Marx-Stadt. In the district of Leipzig in 1963 combined the sports clubs and rotary engine for SC Leipzig, a year later, the SC changed its name to Science DHfK SC DHfK Leipzig. On July 27, 1965, he finally followed the renaming of the SC building in Magdeburg SC Magdeburg.
Within two years, which stemmed from the sports associations designations rotation, activist, Locomotive, bismuth, science and construction of the sports club names were therefore dropped. In 1965, now found in every district just a civilian sports club. "Civilian " Sports clubs were those who did not belong to the ASV forward or the SV Dynamo, both of which continue to operate multiple, distributed over the entire GDR service areas. Except for motor Zella -Mehlis ( Suhl district ) and motor Jena ( Gera district ) were located all civilian sports clubs in the district capitals.
List of GDR sports clubs 1965
End of 1965, the football was given a special position in competitive sports system of the GDR Out of ten existing sports clubs own football clubs have been extracted, the thereafter certain play activities in the GDR Oberliga.
Since the only football should still be encouraged in the ten newly formed football clubs, also separated from all other sports clubs in the football sections. They teamed up again mostly company sports teams, and played under a different name on. Specifically, this engine Schwerin, Motor Babelsberg, FSV Lok Dresden, Cottbus, Frankfurt FSV Neubrandenburg and Dynamo concerned.
In subsequent years, there was no large-scale, nationwide, but only individual restructuring in the sports clubs. So in 1969 broke up the SC Frankfurt, because of the already in the Frankfurt district ( Oder) was ( Strausberg ) -based ASK Vorwärts Berlin delegated to the district capital, and from then on took as ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt. In Potsdam, was dissolved in the same year in a similar case, the local SC in favor of the more successful ASK forward Potsdam. In Berlin also gained 1969 SC Berlin- Grunau its independence from the TSC. Following the restructuring of the East German Ice hockey Sports 1970 ASK forward Crimmitschau lost his club status, the local team played in the BSG unit Crimmitschau on. In 1973, Gera received as the only remaining without sports club district and at the same time big city with the SG bismuth Gera sportclub similar funded sports community. The ASK forward Brotterode was disbanded in 1975, the ski jumpers joined the ASK forward Oberhof. Also only until the mid- 1970s consisted of ASK forward Leipzig. In 1988, finally, the FSC Dynamo Eilenburg split off from SC Dynamo Hoppe Garden, which in turn was developed from the SC Dynamo Berlin.
Sports Clubs in the turn - time
With the dissolution of the sports clubs in 1990, offered the following picture:
List of GDR sports clubs 1990
In 1990, the GDR sports clubs were dissolved as such. They lost their carrier operations and were henceforth no longer out time basis. Instead, they were, if they were refounded, under federal German model with a new legal status as a registered association ( eV ). Some sports clubs have not been reestablished again, but its sections joined other, new to clubs. Exist with the SC Berlin- Grunau, the SC Magdeburg, the SC Neubrandenburg, the SC motor Zella-Mehlis and the SC DHfK Leipzig only five sports clubs by name unchanged to this day.