Chemistry Bohlen
The SV Chemie Böhlen is a sports club in the northwestern small Saxon town Bohlen .
history
Company sports community
After the Second World War, the town of Böhlen, south of Leipzig , developed into an important GDR industrial location for lignite and crude oil processing. Since sports in the GDR was organized on the basis of the company sports association (BSG) in the post-war years , Böhlen, with its economically strong companies, offered good opportunities for promoting sports. In November 1949, two company sports associations were founded in the city of only 6,000 inhabitants, the BSG Petrol Works and the BSG Fuel. With the establishment of central sports associations based on production areas, the Böhlen company sports associations were renamed Aktivist West and Aktivist Mitte in July 1951. Both then finally merged in October 1952 to form BSG Aktivist Böhlen.
Football in the GDR
The BSG came into the public eye mainly with its soccer section. As early as 1954, activist rose from the lowest level of gaming operations to the Leipzig district league, which was third class at the time. After two years, the team won the title of district champion, which entitles them to participate in the promotion round to the second GDR League , created in 1955 , now the third level in GDR football. The Böhlener achieved promotion with second place. In the following years they belonged to the trunk of the II. League with some good midfield positions. Ironically, after achieving the best position in the 1962/63 season, the BSG activist fell victim to the abolition of the II. League. The 3rd place was not enough to qualify for the first GDR league , and so Bohlen remained third class, but had to play again in the less demanding Leipzig district league for the next few years. In 1964 they were again district champion, but clearly missed the GDR league with fourth place in the promotion round. After the repeated district championship in 1966, the team did better and fought their way to qualification for the second-rate GDR league with second place in the promotion round. However, it was not enough for relegation, and the Böhlener had to take another attempt in the 1967/68 season, which was successfully completed via the district championship and winning the promotion round. In the meantime, the team had stabilized so far that they could establish themselves permanently in the second division. The team, which was renamed BSG Chemie Böhlen on January 1, 1969, knocked on the goal of the top GDR football league for the first time in 1974 after five years of membership in the league , but fourth place in the promotion round was not enough. It was only in 1977 that Böhlen had a team whose quality was sufficient for first class. She had strengthened herself with the experienced players from 1. FC Lokomotive and BSG Chemie Leipzig Bernd Hubert (chemistry), Eberhard Köditz (locomotive), Friedhelm Schneider (chemistry) and Manfred Zaspel (locomotive) and had a successful goalscorer in Klaus Havenstein . Between 1977 and 1983 Böhlen spent four seasons in the GDR league, interrupted by two relegations. In the first league year Havenstein was the top scorer in the league with 15 goals. In 1981, Chemie Böhlen had his best result in the GDR Cup competition. After a 3-1 home win over Wismut Aue , they reached the quarter-finals of the FDGB Cup , where the final point was set 3-0 in the home game against Dynamo Dresden . There was another high point in the 1986/87 season, when in the second main round of the GDR series champions BFC Dynamo could be defeated 1-0 at the Jahnbaude. After relegating the league in 1983, Böhlen remained a regular in the second-rate GDR league until the GDR football game was dissolved in 1990.
back row v. l. To right: Team captain Klaus Havenstein, Roland Hammer, Rainer Srodecky, Horst Kunze, Lothar Höhne and Rolf Tröger.
Middle row v. l. To the right: Bernd Hubert, Manfred Zaspel, goalkeeper Freimuth Bott, goalkeeper Klaus Herber, Bodo Gladrow and Rainer Wolf.
Front row v. l. To the right: Gunter Amler, Olaf Adamczak, Friedhelm Schneider and Klaus Bittner. Detlev Müller and Christian Kalainski are missing.
| First eleven of the 1977/78 Oberliga season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Age | position | Bundesliga games 1977/83 |
| Freimuth Bott | 34 | goalkeeper | 90 |
| Gianfranco Zanirato | 34 | Libero | 46 |
| Jochen Kunath | 32 | Right-back | 44 |
| Rainer Wolf | 21st | Central defender | 56 |
| Rolf Tröger | 24 | Left-back | 86 |
| Friedhelm Schneider | 27 | Right midfield | 68 |
| Helmut Friedel | 28 | Central midfield | 20th |
| Eberhard Köditz | 31 | Left mid-field | 54 |
| Klaus Havenstein * | 28 | Right winger | 92 |
| Manfred Zaspel | 29 | Storm center | 60 |
| Bernd Hubert ** | 25th | Left winger | 102 |
(* Böhlen's record scorer with 55 upper league players, ** record player after league appearances)
Sports club chemistry
The turning point of 1989 brought decisive changes for sport in East Germany. As a result of the change in the economic system, the company sports associations no longer received support from the previous sponsoring companies ; on the other hand, they again had the opportunity to organize themselves at club level . On July 17, 1990, 35 former members of BSG Chemie founded the sports club Chemie Böhlen in Böhlen. In addition to football, the club offered sports such as handball, bowling, cycling, wrestling, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics and water polo. As early as July 30, 1990, the football department decided to merge with the former BSG Chemie Leipzig (see below). In the years that followed, the club suffered from the continued separation of individual sports groups. 1997 had to go through bankruptcy proceedings.
Football in the DFB game operation
In the last round of the GDR league in 1989/90, BSG Chemie had fought for 1st place in the southern season and thus qualified for the successor league of the GDR Oberliga, which in 1990/91 as the NOFV Oberliga qualified for the 1st. and 2. Bundesliga played. At the same time, however, the company sports association got into major financial difficulties due to the economic changes, which did not appear to be remedied in the short term even through the future reorganization as a sports club. In this situation, FC Grün-Weiß Leipzig, founded on May 31, 1990 as the successor to BSG Chemie Leipzig, offered the new SV Chemie Böhlen a merger. In 1989/90 the Leipziger had only achieved 2nd place in the GDR league behind the Böhlenern and were condemned to third-tier status from 1991 according to the integration procedure agreed for GDR football. Under these circumstances, both clubs quickly came to an agreement, and so on June 30, 1990, FC Sachsen Leipzig was founded from the best football players , and with the Bohlener's playing rights, it took part in the NOFV Oberliga. With ten players, Böhlen gave up almost his entire team, the remaining players played as SV Chemie Böhlen in the Leipzig district league. In 1994, under the direction of Helmut Friedel , who had been active in Böhlen for a long time , he was promoted to the fifth-class state league of Saxony , which had to be left in 1997 due to bankruptcy proceedings. The procedure resulted in the downgrading to the Borna / Geithain district class, from which the promotion to the seventh-class Leipzig district class succeeded in 2003. Most recently, in the 2018/19 season, SV Chemie Böhlen landed in the middle of the table of the local regional league.
Böhlen's national soccer player
The fact that soccer players of an above-average level repeatedly played in Böhlen is proven by the fact that so far five players have either been in the national team before their time in Böhlen or after:
| Surname | Years in Böhlen | International matches | For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Baum | 1989/90 | 17th | Locomotive Leipzig |
| Bernd Dobermann | 1966/67 | 2 | Chemistry Leipzig |
| Bernd Hobsch | 1986/87 | 1 | Werder Bremen |
| Dieter Kühn | 1989/90 | 13 | Locomotive Leipzig |
| Frank Rost | 1982/85 | 4th | Werder Bremen, Schalke 04 |