BSG Unit East Leipzig

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The BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig was a company sports association from Leipzig, which in 1950 emerged from the BSG Erich Zeigner Leipzig alongside the BSG Einheit Zentrum Leipzig . After reunification , the successor club of the company sports community was founded with SV Einheit Leipzig Ost.

Structural development

When all sports clubs in the Soviet occupation zone were permanently dissolved after the end of the Second World War , loosely organized sports communities initially formed, which at first were only allowed to hold sports competitions at the local level. Numerous such sports communities were formed in Leipzig, with eleven participating in the Leipzig soccer championship in 1946/47. One of these sports communities was the SG Probstheida, also known as SG Leipzig-Probstheida. The SG Probstheida was founded by former members of VfB Leipzig and ATV Leipzig . In 1949 the sports community was reorganized into the company sports community BSG Erich Zeigner Leipzig, but was dissolved again only one year after it was founded. From it emerged the BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig and the BSG Einheit Zentrum Leipzig, from which the ATV Leipzig developed again. The BSG Einheit Ost took over the successful football section from the BSG Erich Zeigner, among others, which qualified for the newly founded GDR league in the 1949/50 season.

Football section

Team of the BSG Einheit-Ost Leipzig in Pleystein (1952)

The BSG Einheit Ost took over the GDR league starting position of the BSG Erich Zeigner after they qualified for the newly founded GDR league in the 1949/50 season. Sorted into the southern season, the Leipzig team took third place behind BSG Zentra Wismut Aue and BSG Chemie Zeitz . In the following season, when the groups were no longer divided according to their geographical location, the BSG Einheit Ost took sixth place, a midfield position in season 1.

In the 1952/53 season they secured victory in season 2 of the GDR league in front of the GDR major league relegated BSG Motor Wismar and thus qualified for the GDR major league . In addition, they qualified for the championship finals against BSG Progress Meerane . After they did not get more than 1-1 in the first leg, Leipzig won the second leg 4-1 and thus secured the GDR league championship.

Although you went into the first league season in the club's history with well-known players like Rudolf Hecker , Helmut Jacob and Rolf Sommer , you had to tremble for a long time about staying up. It was only on the last day of the match who decided who would keep the class and who would not. At the end of the day of the match, the Leipziger were tied with the BSG Lokomotive Stendal and the BSG Motor Dessau . The Leipzig team managed to stay up because at that time the goal quotient, i.e. the ratio of goals scored and goals conceded, was decisive when there was a tie. While Dessau had a goal quotient of 0.691 and Stendal one of 0.745, the Leipzig team had the best quotient with 0.754 and were thus able to keep the class in twelfth place.

During the 1954/55 season there were profound changes for GDR football. For the targeted development of high-performance sports , so-called sports clubs were founded in the districts , whose sections functioned as performance bases for various types of sport. In soccer, a large part of the upper league teams - which previously were almost exclusively departments of company sports associations - were integrated into the sports clubs as soccer sections. For the BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig and its soccer department it had the effect that the soccer department left the BSG after the eleventh game day and joined the newly founded SC Rotation Leipzig .

Hockey Department

In the early years of the company sports association, the BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig had a successful hockey department. In 1951, the club was able to draw attention to itself because it won three of four possible GDR championship titles in hockey. In the following year the men were able to defend their championship title in indoor hockey.

What happened to the hockey department afterwards is not known. But because the ATV Leipzig 1845 , which emerged from the BSG Einheit Zentrum Leipzig after the fall of the Wall , claimed both the championship titles of Einheit Zentrum Leipzig and Einheit Ost for itself, there is a possibility that in 1953 the hockey department and the BSG Einheit Ost left and joined the BSG unit center.

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