SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
The SC Karl-Marx-Stadt was a sports club in the German Democratic Republic . Like all sports clubs in the GDR he was in competitive sports settled. The main focus of the club was figure skating , weightlifting , athletics and swimming .
history
Established in 1945 as SG Chemnitz Nord , the association operated from 1948 to 1950 as BSG Fewa Chemnitz and then until 1953 as BSG Chemie Chemnitz . After Chemnitz was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt on May 10, 1953, the association was called BSG Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1956 . On March 3, 1956, the sports club emerged from the company sports community as SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt . From July 1, 1963, the engine was removed from the club name. After SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt was dissolved at the same time , SC Karl-Marx-Stadt became a district sports club and existed under this name until 1990. After Karl-Marx-Stadt was renamed Chemnitz, the club was called SC Chemnitz .
Sections
figure skating
With five Olympic medals, eleven world champions and 19 European championships, SC Karl-Marx-Stadt was the most successful figure skating club in the GDR. The successes were the result of the trainer Jutta Müller , who achieved her first successes in the 1960s with her daughter Gabriele Seyfert . Gabriele Seyfert was GDR champion ten times in a row from 1961 to 1970, won three European and two world championships, and was the first female figure skater in the GDR to win an Olympic medal, finishing second at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble. In 1968 in Grenoble, two GDR runners competed in the men's competition: Günter Zöller and Jan Hoffmann , both from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. Zöller won bronze at the world championships in 1970, Jan Hoffmann was the most successful figure skater in the GDR with four European titles, two world championships and an Olympic silver medal in 1980 . During Jan Hoffmann's career, Anett Pötzsch, Jutta Müller's next protégé , rose to the world class. From 1977 to 1980 Pötzsch won four European championship titles, two world championship titles and the 1980 Olympic gold medal, the first Olympic gold medal in figure skating for the GDR. After Anett Pötzsch had finished her career, the career of Katarina Witt began , who with six European championship titles, four world championship titles and two Olympic victories, the most successful runner of the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. With Pötzsch and Witt, the club and its trainer provided all of the GDR Olympic champions in figure skating.
Besides Jutta Müller, Irene Salzmann was the other successful coach of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. Under her, Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach rose to world class in pair skating. The two won the world championship title in 1982 as the only GDR couple.
The successor club for figure skaters and speed skaters was the Ice Sports Club Chemnitz (EVC).
In 1998, the figure skating department at EVC went into business for itself and founded what is now Chemnitzer Eislauf-Club e. V. (CEC).
Speed skating
In contrast to the figure skating section, the speed skating section only produced one world-class female athlete. Gabi Zange won three Olympic bronze medals, twelve world championship medals and four European championship titles.
Soccer
The footballers of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt played from 1954 to 1957 and from 1962 in the GDR top division . Among other things, the GDR national players Dieter Erler and Eberhard Vogel were active for the club. On January 15, 1966, the soccer section was separated from the club and transferred to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt , the predecessor club of today's Chemnitzer FC .
Weightlifting
With 125 medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, weightlifters were numerically the most successful division of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. With an Olympic victory, ten world championship and twelve European championship titles, weightlifters achieved fewer gold medals than swimmers and figure skaters. The successful series of lifters under coach Klaus Kroll began at the beginning of the 1970s with the heavyweights Stefan Grützner and Gerd Bonk , who both won medals at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. After lightweight Gunter Ambraß in the mid-1970s, several athletes rose to the world class at the end of the 1970s: Andreas Letz in bantamweight, Joachim Kunz in lightweight and Frank Mantek in middleweight. After Bonk had already become world champions in pushing and Grützner in snatching, Kunz won in 1981 as the first weightlifter of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt in a duel, in 1983 he was able to repeat this success. At the 1988 Olympic Games , middleweight Ingo Steinhöfel won silver, and Joachim Kunz has now won Olympic gold eight years after his silver medal in 1980 . He was the only Olympic champion in weightlifting in the GDR.
At the end of 1992 the Chemnitz Athlete Club was founded, which has taken over from the weightlifting section of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. Alongside Ingo Steinhöfel, Marc Huster was the club's most successful athlete until Matthias Steiner moved to Chemnitz from Austria in 2004.
athletics
With two Olympic victories, two world championships and seven European championships, the athletes at SC Karl-Marx-Stadt were also quite successful. Christine Spielberg was the club's first female European champion in 1966. In 1971 Helga Seidler won two European championship titles, and the following year she won the GDR's 4 x 400 meter relay at the Olympic Games in Munich. Jochen Sachse , the hammer thrower , the sprinter Alexander Thieme and the obstacle runner Frank Baumgartl also won Olympic medals in 1972 and 1976. Lutz Dombrowski was the only German Olympic champion in the long jump in Moscow in 1980 , Ute Hommola won bronze in the javelin throw. Two years later, Dombrowski also won the European Championships in Athens. At the first World Championships , which was held in Helsinki in 1983, Bettine Jahn won the hurdles. In 1987 in Rome , Thomas Schönlebe won the 400-meter run and Ralf Haber took third place in the hammer throw.
The 4 x 400 meter relay of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt with Thomas Schönlebe and Jens Carlowitz won the GDR championship in 1987 and 1988. In 1990, already starting as Chemnitzer SC, Lieder , Carlowitz and Schönlebe won both the sprint relay and the long relay.
In 1993 the athletics section of SC Chemnitz merged with VfL Chemnitz to form LAC Chemnitz . For this club, Lieder, Carlowitz, Schönlebe and Uwe Jahn won the championship title in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 1995 and 1996.
Cycling
The track cyclists from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt won two silver medals at the Olympic Games. Both Herbert Richter 1972 and Matthias Wiegand 1980 were members of the Bahnvierers. Michael Hübner was world champion in the sprint in 1986.
swim
The swimming section won 119 medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, 72 of which were gold, and was the club's most successful section by title. Alfred Müller and Joachim Rother won medals at the 1966 European Championships as the club's first swimmers. Apart from the relay swimmer Thomas Flemming in the 1980s, these were the only swimmers who brought medals to Karl-Marx-Stadt, the great successes of swimming in the GDR and also the Karl-Marx-Städter were successes of the women swimmers. In the 1968 Olympics won by Helga Lindner , Uta jewelry and Sabine Steinbach three swimmers of the club medals. Helga Lindner was the club's first female European champion in 1970. At the first swimming world championship , which was held in Belgrade in 1973, Renate Vogel won three gold medals, Andrea Hübner was twice successful. In 1975 in Cali , Hannelore Anke won three times, and layer specialist Ulrike Tauber was also successful. At the 1976 Olympic Games , women swimmers at SC Karl-Marx-Stadt won five gold medals, alongside Hannelore Anke with two titles and Ulrike Tauber, Petra Thümer was also successful on the two long crawl routes. In 1980 in Moscow , Ute Geweniger and Ines Diers won two gold medals, Ines Geißler and Petra Schneider swam one gold medal each. These swimmers were also successful at the European Championships and the 1982 World Cup . In the second half of the 1980s, the four-time world champion from 1986 Heike Friedrich was the club's most successful swimmer.
The swimmers of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt were also very successful at GDR championships. The club's layer relay was GDR champions from 1970 to 1972 with Renate Vogel and Helga Lindner and from 1981 to 1984 with Ute Geweniger and Ines Geißler.
do gymnastics
The KTV Chemnitz emerged from the gymnastics section .
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
- Dieter Huhn, Wolfram Rosenow: Athletics. GDR championships outdoors from 1948 to 1990 and indoors from 1964 to 1990 . Berlin 1994
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Chemnitzer FC ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Achievements in figure skating
- ^ Figure skating in Chemnitz
- ↑ Success in speed skating
- ↑ Success in weightlifting
- ↑ History of the Chemnitz AC ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Achievements in athletics
- ↑ German relay champions in athletics
- ↑ Success in cycling
- ↑ Medal successes
- ↑ Success in swimming
- ↑ GDR swimming champion
