ASK Forward Berlin

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The Army Sports Club Forward Berlin was in East Berlin of resettled Army sports club and a national training center in the GDR. He was a sports club in the Army Sports Association Forward (ASV) of the National People's Army (NVA) and one of the largest sports clubs in the country. From 1969 the club was relocated to Frankfurt (Oder) and reorganized as ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt .

Sections

Soccer

The soccer section of ASK Vorwärts Berlin was one of the most successful in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s. The club won the championship four times in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1965, came 2nd in 1957 and 1959 and 3rd in the table in 1963. After winning the championship in 1965, FC Vorwärts Berlin was spun off from ASK.

Handball

The handball section was able to become German champions in the 1963/64 season. The ASK won Season I in the season and scored in the final from the SC DHfK Leipzig , which the team from Berlin won. In the following season, the team was able to secure the runner-up in the GDR Oberliga , which was held for the first time , at SC DHfK Leipzig.

rugby

The ASK Vorwärts Berlin was a top team in rugby union in the second half of the 1950s. The army sports club won the championships in 1956 and 1958 in front of BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf . In 1957 they finished 3rd in the championship behind the HSG DHfK Leipzig and Stahl Hennigsdorf. Fifteen players from ASK Vorwärts Berlin were appointed to the GDR's national rugby union team.

Judo

The Judo section of the Berlin Army Sports Club won the GDR men's team championships in 1959 and 1960. Under the coaches Willi Lorbeer and Hubert Sturm , the Berlin ASK judoka, whose training base was in Strausberg , won a total of twelve GDR individual championships. The internationally most successful judoka of the ASK Vorwärts Berlin until 1973 were Erich Zielke and Herbert Niemann . In 1973 the Judo section moved to Frankfurt an der Oder and was incorporated into the ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt . The most successful ASK judoka after the move was Torsten Reissmann .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rugby - GDR championships and cup of the German Rugby Sports Association . Accessed December 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Claus-Peter Bach (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Rugby Association , pp. 171 f, 2000, Heidelberg.