BSG activist "Karl Marx" Zwickau
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| Full name | Company sports group activist "Karl Marx" Zwickau |
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| place | Zwickau | ||
| Founded | 1949 | ||
| Dissolved | 1968 | ||
| Club colors | Yellow black | ||
| Stadion | Alfred Baumann arena | ||
| Top league | Soccer: GDR League | ||
| successes | 5th place (1964/65) | ||
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The BSG activist "Karl Marx" Zwickau was a German sports club from Zwickau whose football department existed between 1949 and 1968. The home of the West Saxons was the Alfred Baumann arena , named after Alfred Baumann . BSG is the abbreviation of B rofessional s port g ommission; the part of the name activist refers to the activist movement . All company sports associations in the mining and basic industries carried this addition.
Football section
Aktivist Zwickau emerged in 1949 from SG Zwickau-Mitte , which was founded after the Second World War, and initially operated under the name BSG Aktivist Steinkohle Zwickau . The sports community, which always acted in the shadow of local rivals Horch Zwickau , was strengthened in 1950 by parts of the disbanded first east zone master SG Planitz . In 1951 another name change was made to activist "Karl Marx" Zwickau . The sponsoring company was the Zwickau Karl Marx factory .
On a sporting level, the West Saxons played in the Saxon State League until 1951. After the states were dissolved, activist Zwickau became a founding member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district league . In the district league, Zwickau was consistently at the top of the table until 1957. While in the season of 1956, together with Motor Zschopau, the promotion to the third-class II. GDR league was still missed, this was achieved in 1957 with the West Saxon neighbor Wismut Plauen . Activist Zwickau was also able to play in higher table regions in the second GDR league, and in 1958 he was runner-up behind Dynamo Dresden . After two ninth places, activist succeeded in 1962 in front of the tied teams from Motor West Karl-Marx-Stadt and Motor Bautzen, the first promotion to the GDR league .
Activist Zwickau played in the second highest division of the GDR until the 1967/68 season. Subsequently, the GDR league team was dissolved. The football department of activist Zwickau merged with the GDR upper division Motor Zwickau to form the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau . Activist Zwickau's team was integrated into the newly founded club as the second team , analogous to other agencies such as Dynamo Hohenschönhausen , Dynamo Frankfurt or Lokomotive Cottbus . The second representation of Sachsenring Zwickau played in the GDR league until 1976, but was forced to relegate to the district league as a table seventh by decision of the DFV alongside Chemie Schwarza and all other second teams.
statistics
- Participation in the GDR League: 1962/63 to 1967/68, 1968/69 to 1975/76 (forced relegation as Sachsenring Zwickau II)
- Participation in the 2nd GDR League: 1958 to 1961/62
- Eternal table of the GDR league : Rank 37
people
- Jürgen Croy
- Heinz Satrapa , trainer from 1964 to 1966
Handball section
literature
- Hardy Greens : activist Zwickau. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 490.
- Hanns Leske : activist Zwickau. In: Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 302.
- Norbert Peschke, Dieter Völkel, Frank Kruczynski (photos): The history of FSV Zwickau, of wasp stings and heaps of heaps . Ed .: Fußball-Sport-Verein Zwickau eV Zschiesche, Wilkau-Haßlau 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815145-0-6 .