GDR Oberliga (basketball)
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| sport | basketball |
| Association | DBV |
| League foundation | 1955 |
| Teams | 18th |
| Country countries | Germany |
| Title holder | HSG TU Magdeburg |
| Record champions | BSG AdW Berlin (12) |
The basketball league of the GDR was the top division in basketball in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The German championship in club basketball was played in it in various formats from 1955 to 1990 . The organizer was the German Basketball Association (DBV) .
history
Foundation and league operation
Founding members of the GDR Oberliga in 1953 |
The area of today's New Lander was already the center of German basketball in the 1930s . Starting from Gera , where games had been played since at least 1934, and in the wake of a general basketball euphoria after the Summer Olympics in 1936 , the sport spread to Leipzig , Halle and Dresden, among others . After the Second World War , gaming in the Soviet occupation zone came to a standstill for the first time, until in 1948 basketball became a department in the German Sports Committee . At the beginning of the 1950s , the sport was further promoted, in 1951 the first GDR-wide tournament took place. The winner was the HSG Wissenschaft Halle . In 1953 it was finally decided to found a league: a total of seventeen teams initially played in two regionally separated (north / south) groups, the best six made it to the final round. The first champion was the HSG HU Berlin , which also won the next eight championships. In 1954/55 a second league was founded with the GDR league. After the competitive sports decision in 1969, the level of play in the league (and the national team ) fell significantly and they lost touch with Europe and West Germany . The most successful team until the fall of the Berlin Wall was the BSG AdW Berlin , which won 12 championships and 10 DBV cup victories in 16 years.
After 1990
Following the last regular league season, a transition round was played in 1990/91. The placement of the teams in this round served to assign the clubs to the respective leagues after the integration of the German Basketball Association into the German Basketball Federation . Initially, it was planned that the two best-placed teams should start in the basketball league (similar to the clubs in the football and handball leagues ). However, this idea was discarded after the second half of the round HSG TU Magdeburg lost significantly to the bottom of the Bundesliga in the 1989/90 season , TV Langen . Magdeburg and the BSG AdW Berlin (as a syndicate with the Berlin gymnastics association ) were accordingly classified in the 2nd basketball league in 1991/92 , the remaining GDR upper division into the respective regional leagues . Magdeburg was relegated in the first season, Berlin in the following season .
In the following years, no club from the former league could play in the higher divisions. It was not until 1997 that SSV Einheit Weißenfels , third in the intermediate round in 1991, made it into the 2nd basketball league and in 1999 even became the first East German club to be promoted to the Bundesliga, and in 2004 even won the FIBA EuroCup Challenge . Other successful former GDR upper division clubs are the university giants Leipzig (formerly HSG KMU Leipzig; between 2010 and 2017 member of ProB and ProA ), Science City Jena (formed from parts of USV Jena , formerly HSG Jena, and Carl Zeiss Jena ; 2007 / 08 and since 2016 Bundesliga team) and the Dresden Titans (created from parts of the USV TU Dresden ; since 2012 ProA and ProB).
Results
Master list
| rank | team | title | year |
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| 1 | BSG AdW Berlin | 12 | 1974, 1978-1987, 1990 |
| 2 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin / HSG HU Berlin | 9 | 1953-1961 |
| 3 | HSG KMU Leipzig | 5 | 1971, 1973, 1975-1977 |
| ASK forward Leipzig | 5 | 1965-1969 | |
| 5 | SC Chemistry Hall | 2 | 1963, 1964 |
| SK KPV 69 hall | 2 | 1970, 1972 | |
| HSG TU Magdeburg | 2 | 1988, 1989 | |
| 1 | ASK forward hall | 1 | 1962 |
Cup winners
The DBV Cup was played between 1955 and 1987. After that, the cup was renamed the DTSB Cup .
| rank | team | title | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BSG AdW Berlin | 10 | 1976, 1981, 1982, 1984-1990 |
| 2 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin / HSG HU Berlin | 4th | 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961 |
| ASK forward Leipzig | 4th | 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969 | |
| 4th | SC Dynamo Berlin | 3 | 1955, 1972, 1974 |
| 5 | SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig | 2 | 1958, 1965 |
| HSG Science Hall | 2 | 1970, 1973 | |
| SK KPV 69 hall | 2 | 1975, 1983 | |
| 8th | ASK forward hall | 1 | 1962 |
| SC Chemistry Hall | 1 | 1963 | |
| BSG Empor Brandenburg Gate Berlin | 1 | 1971 | |
| HSG Science Berlin-Karlshorst | 1 | 1977 | |
| HSG TU Magdeburg | 1 | 1978 | |
| HSG Science TU Dresden | 1 | 1979 | |
| HSG KMU Leipzig | 1 | 1980 |
Participation in European competitions
The champions of the league were entitled to participate in the FIBA European Cup of National Champions. When the competition was founded in 1958 , two years before a DBB representative , HSG Wiss. HU Berlin is entitled to take part in the qualification. The most successful team was the ASK Vorwärts Leipzig , which made it into the eight best teams in Europe in 1967 and just barely missed the semi-finals. No DBV representative took part in the first edition of the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup in 1966 ; ASK Leipzig reached the semi-finals in the second year of the competition. After the competitive sport decision in 1969, no club took part in a European competition until the HSG TU Magdeburg took part in the (European third-class) Korać Cup in 1990 .
| competition | year | team | success |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1958 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin | Elimination in qualification |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1958/59 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin | Elimination in qualification |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1959/60 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin | Elimination in qualification |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1960/61 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin | Elimination in qualification |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1961/62 | HSG Wiss. HU Berlin | Elimination in qualification |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1962/63 | ASK forward hall | Elimination in qualification |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1963/64 | SC Chemistry Hall | 2nd round |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1964/65 | SC Chemistry Hall | 2nd round |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1965/66 | ASK forward Leipzig | 2nd round |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1966/67 | ASK forward Leipzig | Top 8 |
| FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup | 1967/68 | ASK forward Leipzig | Semifinals |
| FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1968/69 | ASK forward Leipzig | Round of 16 |
| Korać Cup | 1990/91 | HSG TU Magdeburg | Elimination in qualification |
Web links
- Basketball in the GDR - Timeline in the Central Germany Basketball Archive of the Förderverein Sportschulen Basketball Halle eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Schwager: "We were in Kienbaum when it was said: That's it". In: berliner-zeitung.de . September 13, 2013, accessed May 1, 2018 .
- ^ The transition from DTSB / DBV- to DSB / DBB - organizational structures 1990-1991. In: tt-basketball-halle.de/. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
- ^ German Basketball Association of the GDR. (PDF; 4.64 KB) In: basketball-bund.de. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
- ↑ GDR Championship - men. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .