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The BSG Empor Lauter was a company sports association whose football team played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football , in the early 1950s . In the first half of the 1954/55 league season , a large part of the team from the 8,000-inhabitant Saxon town of Lauter in the Ore Mountains was delegated to Rostock in order to play for SC Empor Rostock in the future .
prehistory
The predecessor of BSG Empor was FC Viktoria 1913 Lauter, founded in 1913. From the 1923/24 season, the club played within the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs (VMBV) in the first-class Gauliga Erzgebirge , in which he reached 4th place out of eight teams in 1924. Already in 1925 the Lauterer Gaumeister were able to repeat this success in the years 1926, 1927, 1929 and 1930. With the Gaume Championship, FC reached the final round of the Central German Championship, in which, however, he was always eliminated in the first round with high defeats. In the 1931/32 season FC Viktoria received competition from SC Waldhaus Lauter in the Gauliga, which at the end of the season ended up just one place behind Viktoria in fifth place. In 1933, the Waldhäuser had already overtaken FC Viktoria and became runner-up in the Erzgebirgegau. When the VMBV was dissolved in 1933 and German football was reorganized by the National Socialists , the Lauterer clubs could not qualify for the new Gauliga Sachsen . Only when 42 teams in seven seasons were nominated for the last Sachsengauliga season in 1944/45 did a syndicate from the two clubs Viktoria and Waldhaus participate from Lauter. Because of the fighting of the end of the Second World War , the championship was canceled prematurely.
After the end of the war, at the instigation of the Soviet occupying power, all sports clubs in the Eastern Zone were permanently dissolved. In Lauter, a loosely organized sports community initially continued the sport of football. In 1948/49, the SG Lauter took part in the West Saxon football championship for the first time and took 3rd place out of 12 teams. Just one year later, the SG Westsachsenmeister was defeated in the final of the Saxon championship of SG Dresden-Mickten in three games with 0: 1, 2: 1 and 2: 3. As runner-up, however, the SG qualified for the new second-class DS league . As part of the restructuring of GDR sport on the basis of company sports associations (BSG), SG Lauter was taken over by the Soviet Wismut AG and converted into BSG Freiheit Wismut Lauter. Under this name, the Lauterer appeared in the first DS league season 1950/51 and were among the 10 teams of the southern season 5th, before the later upper division BSG FeWa Chemnitz and BSG Mechanics Jena . When the local trade took over the sponsorship, the BSG Freiheit Wismut was dissolved and on May 21, 1951 the BSG Empor Lauter took its place.
Football section of the BSG Empor
As usual, the BSG Empor ran various sports sections, but only the football section achieved national attention. In 1951/52 the Lauterer footballers played their second DS league season, were ultimately winners of league season 1 and were promoted to the DS league. In addition, the BSG Empor won the final of the league championship in four games against the winners of the second league season BSG Motor Jena (1-0, 1: 5, 0-0 afterwards and 3-0). For the first league season 1952/53, Walter Fritzsch , who had previously looked after the league team of BSG Wismut Aue , took over the Lauterer as coach. With an almost unchanged line-up of players, only Karl-Heinz Mohr , Karl Pöschel and Herbert Zwahr were newcomers, Fritzsch managed to lead the team to a secure 10th place. In the 32 league games, the promoted player won 13 games, drew seven times and lost only 12 games. The games won also included the 2-0 victory over previous year's champions Turbine Halle . For the 1953/54 season, the previous league player of BSG Chemie Leipzig, Heinz Pönert, took over the coaching position of the team that remained almost unchanged. However, the future national player Kurt Zapf from Plauen came as a promising newcomer . Also in their second league season, Empor Lauter landed in safe midfield in 9th place among 15 teams. Then came Oswald Pfau , previously a coach at the upper division BSG Lok Stendal , again a new coach.
Relocation to Rostock
After initial difficulties, the BSG Empor Lauter set again course for a successful season in 1954/55 . After eight league games and five wins, the team was at the top of the table with 10: 6 points, aided by numerous game failures by other teams. At the same time in Rostock center of gravity Club Sports Association Empor , the SC Empor Rostock founded. Since no suitable team was available in the catchment area for the soccer section, the sports association and the GDR sports management agreed to form the section with players from the currently strongest team at SV Empor, the BSG Empor Lauter. After intensive processing and with material promises, twelve players, including most of the regulars, were finally ready to move to Rostock in October 1954 (see table ↓). The last league game of BSG Empor Lauter took place on October 24th at home against Rotation Babelsberg (1-0). Then the SC Empor Rostock seamlessly took over the upper league pitch of the BSG Empor Lauter. The players who were not relocated to Rostock joined other company sports associations or ended their footballer career.
successor
In 1955, BSG Motor Lauter took over the local football game, but did not even come close to the regional league level by the end of GDR football . When clubs could be founded again in East Germany after the political change of 1989 , the Lauterer SV Viktoria was founded in 1913 in 1990. His soccer team reached the Chemnitz district class (2009/10, 8th league) as the highest league.
player
All top division players of the BSG Empor Lauter | ||||||
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player | Year of birth | Point games | Gates | from | to | after that |
Arthur Bialas | 1930 | 8th | 2 | 1954 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Franz Bialas | 1929 | 5 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Walter Espig | 1921 | 57 | 19th | 1952 | 1954 | Motor Zwickau |
Johannes Friedrich | 1925 | 56 | 11 | 1952 | 1954 | Motor Zwickau |
Werner Gebhardt | 1925 | 43 | 4th | 1952 | 1954 | Bismuth floodplain |
Walter Hartmann | 1925 | 10 | 1 | 1952 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Rudolf Hertzsch | 1924 | 65 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 | Motor Zwickau |
Herbert Kreißel | 1931 | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 | Oberliga end |
Rudi Leber | 1919 | 47 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Rolf Leeb | 1924 | 4th | 0 | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Hans Meyer | 1931 | 13 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | Oberliga end |
Karl-Heinz Mohr | 1928 | 15th | 2 | 1952 | 1953 | Bismuth floodplain |
Karl Poeschel | 1931 | 32 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Heinz Reich | 1924 | 6th | 0 | 1954 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Theo Reichelt | 1932 | 20th | 1 | 1953 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Friedrich Riedel | 1921 | 34 | 2 | 1952 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Hermann Roth | 1925 | 23 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Gerhard Schaller | 1929 | 11 | 1 | 1954 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Rudolf Schneider | 1921 | 66 | 8th | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Walter Schmiedel | 1918 | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1953 | Oberliga end |
Gottfried Schubert | 1931 | 34 | 7th | 1952 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Konrad Schubert | 1927 | 1 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 | Oberliga end |
Henry Schützer | 1931 | 27 | 6th | 1952 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Karl-Heinz Singer | 1928 | 33 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Joachim Vogel | 1931 | 45 | 20th | 1952 | 1954 | Oberliga end |
Ernst Wüst | 1923 | 32 | 0 | 1952 | 1953 | Oberliga end |
Kurt Zapf | 1929 | 31 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Herbert Zwahr | 1922 | 62 | 14th | 1952 | 1954 | Up Rostock |
Note: The number of games was determined on the basis of the German sports echo of those born between 1952 and 1954. The information from the history of the GDR Oberliga (Baingo / Horn) and the encyclopedia of GDR football (Leske) are partly incorrect.
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 128.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 52–53, 325.
- Markus Hesselmann, Michael Rosentritt: Hansa Rostock. The east is alive. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-258-5