SC Dynamo Berlin
The SC Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club, which existed from 1954 to 1991. He was a center of sporting performance promoting sports club Dynamo ( Sports Association of the Ministry of the Interior / Police and the Ministry of State Security ).
Sports spectrum
The sports spectrum was subjected to sport politically motivated changes especially in the 50s and 60s. In the 80s there were the sections handball, athletics, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey, fencing, rowing, boxing and volleyball in the SC Dynamo Berlin. The football section was spun off in 1966, it was the football club Berliner FC Dynamo.
Settlement
The SC Dynamo Berlin took advantage of a generous, still existing sports complex in Berlin -Alt- Hohenschonhausen, the so-called Sports Forum (including Dynamo Sport Forum ) with athletics stadium, gymnasiums, swimming pool, skating rink, hockey arena, speed-skating track and velodrome.
Achievements
The SC Dynamo has many famous sports people, so Christoph Höhne ( Athletics - Olympic champion in walking), Ilona Slupianek - Briesenick ( Athletics - Olympic champion in shot put ), Karin Janz ( Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics ), Axel Peschel ( Cycling - Winner of the Peace Race ) the hockey player Joachim Ziesche and Dietmar Peters, Olympic gold medalist in speed skating Helga Haase, the Olympic swimming champion, Barbara Krause, the Volleyball world XI player Günther Thomae and the volleyball national players Christine Mummhardt, Maike Arlt, Monika Beu, Susanne lame, Ute Langenau Grit Jensen Naumann, Ines Pianka and Ariane Radfan.
After the GDR
With the onset of the change in the GDR in 1989 and the dissolution of the Stasi, the main support for Dynamo fell off. Therefore, the SC Dynamo Berlin was renamed the 1st Police Sports Club (PSC ) Berlin on 21 March 1990, which applies the twelve sections boxing, figure skating, speed skating, fencing, handball, judo, athletics, cycling, rowing, swimming, gymnastics, Volleyball took over. At the same time, the former section of the SC Dynamo Hockey became an independent EHC Dynamo Berlin. Carriers of the two clubs was the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as Chairman of the PSC acted Club Harold Dimke.
Later in the year, the PSC was renamed in April in Berlin SC 1, SC Berlin emerged from the December 1990 and January 1991 as the legal successor. Also from the acquired sections made in the result, some self-employed: The handball team went to SV Preußen Berlin, the volleyball men to SCC Berlin and the volleyball women CJD Berlin.