BSG unit Magdeburg
The BSG Einheit Magdeburg was a company sports community that was mainly active in the cycling and football sectors in the 1940s and 1950s.
portrait
The BSG unit had its origin in the SG Magdeburg-Altstadt, founded in 1945. This was one of the first sports groups in the Saxony-Anhalt city of Magdeburg , which revived the sports business after the end of the Second World War and the ban on the previous sports clubs. The sports group first attracted attention through its soccer team, which took part in the championship in the Magdeburg soccer district in the 1947/48 season and took second place in the southern season. When the sports operations in the eastern zone could be expanded to include the federal states from 1948 , the SG Altstadt started in the state class Saxony-Anhalt and at the end of the 1948/49 season reached third place in the northern relay.
From 1948, sport in the eastern zone was converted to the system of company sports associations (BSG) . The SG old town received municipal administration as 1949 carrier operation and was renamed BSG green-red city of Magdeburg. Green-red stood for the city colors of Magdeburg. The soccer team finished the 1949/50 season in sixth place in the national class north, which was only second class after the introduction of the DS-Liga (later GDR-Oberliga ) and qualified for the GDR-wide soccer cup competition ( FDGB-Pokal ) 1949 / 50. In the first main round, the green-reds met the GDR champion Motor Zwickau , to whom they lost 3-0 on their own place. At the same time, the racing cyclist Gustav-Adolf Schur grew up at BSG Grün-Rot, one of the greatest talents in GDR sport.
As part of the formation of GDR-wide central sports associations , the BSG Grün-Rot was renamed the BSG Einheit Magdeburg on May 30, 1950. The term "unit" was derived from the sports association unit, which united all company sports associations of the state administration. For the football season 1950/51, the state class Saxony-Anhalt was only third class after the formation of the GDR league , the BSG unit was eighth in the first single-track state championship. In 1951, unit Magdeburg and Schur lost the greatest talent when the cycling section of BSG Aufbau Börde Magdeburg joined. In 1951/52 the state class Saxony-Anhalt entered its last season, unit Magdeburg took fourth place.
As a result of the abolition of the Länder in the GDR in favor of districts in the course of 1952, the league system of GDR football had to be changed. Instead of the national classes, district leagues were introduced as the third division . The BSG unit Magdeburg was intended for the district league Magdeburg. Even before the start of the 1952/53 season, the soccer section of the BSG Einheit also switched to BSG Aufbau Börde, which took over the unity team in the district league. After the loss of the most important sports sections, the BSG unit Magdeburg then lost its national importance.
people
In addition to the cyclist and later two-time world champion Gustav-Adolf Schur (* 1931), other prominent athletes ran through the BSG Green-Red / Unit:
Willi Oelgardt (1912–1973) was one of the first football players in Magdeburg after the Second World War . He had played first division football at SV Viktoria 1896 Magdeburg before the war and began to revive football in Magdeburg from 1946. Until 1950 he was active at SG Altstadt and at BSG Grün-Rot. Oelgardt began his coaching career in 1950 with the GDR upper division BSG activist Brieske-Ost . In 1952 he became the first coach of the GDR national soccer team.
Before Gerhard Gläser (* 1911–1995) became a soccer coach in the GDR upper league , where he looked after the teams from Turbine / Chemie Halle , Lok Stendal and Hansa Rostock , he was a soccer player at Grün-Rot / Einheit Magdeburg from 1950 to 1952.
Under her maiden name Karin Richert, the hurdler Karin Balzer began her athletics career with the BSG unit Magdeburg. She later became an Olympic and European champion and set seven world records.
literature
- DFSF (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 1). Berlin 2011.