BSG locomotive Greifswald
The BSG Lokomotive Greifswald was a company sports community in the Hanseatic city of Greifswald , which became known nationwide in the GDR , mainly with its football and art skating sections .
portrait
In football, the Greifswald railroad athletes appeared throughout the GDR in 1950 when they were promoted to the Mecklenburg state class with their sports association Deutsche Reichsbahn . After the rise, the sports community was transformed into the company sports community locomotive (BSG Lok). In the state class, third division in the GDR football league system, the BSG Lok played until it was dissolved in 1952. After that, the state class was replaced by the Rostock district league , which remained the third division. With the exception of the 1959 season (calendar year season), when after relegation had to be played in the district class, Lok Greifswald was present in the district league. It was fourth class between 1956 and 1963 because of the short-term 2nd GDR League . In 1957 Lok Greifswald was in the final of the district cup, but lost 4-1 at BSG unit Rostock. As a finalist, the team qualified for the GDR-wide soccer cup competition in 1958, where they lost 7-1 to third division TSC Oberschöneweide in the second intermediate round . In 1975 the BSG locomotive had to get down for the second time, followed by a steady up and down between the 3rd and 4th league. From 1981/82 the railway workers were able to assert themselves in the district league until the end of GDR football in 1990.
During the time of its existence, the BSG Lok maintained several other sports sections in addition to football, such as boxing, athletics, cycling, roller-skating, table tennis and chess. The brothers Dietmar (1982) and Hartmut Bettin (1987, 1988) collected three GDR championship titles in roller art skating.
When the system of company sports associations collapsed in 1990 as a result of the economic changes caused by the political changes of 1989/90 , members of the BSG Lok founded the registered association ESV Greifswald in 1990 . Its football team continued to play in the Rostock district league in 1990/91, then in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional league, from which they were relegated to the state class in 1993. In 1997 the ESV merged with the SV Empor Greifswald to form the new association ESV / Empor Greifswald.
People of particular importance
- Eckart Märzke , soccer player in the GDR upper league , was a youth player at Lok Greifswald
- Fritz Sdunek , amateur boxer and boxing trainer, began his career at Lok Greifswald
literature
- DFSF (Ed.): DDR Chronicle - DDR Football 1949–1991 (Volumes 1–8). Berlin 2007/11.