BSG Motor Fraureuth

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The company sports community (BSG) Motor Fraureuth was active in GDR sport and became known for its handball team.

development

After the end of the Second World War , organized sport was initially practiced in the Fraureuth sports community in the municipality of Fraureuth , which has 4,000 inhabitants . After the introduction of the company sports associations, it initially took on the name BSG Stahl, from 1952 the handball players started as BSG Motor.

Indoor handball

In the 1949/50 season, the BSG Stahl participated as the Thuringian national champion in the GDR indoor handball championship for men , where after two rounds came the end. The team was most successful in the 1951/52 season. After the third state championship since 1950, the Fraureuther reached the small final in the final round of the GDR championship. In the game for third place, however, they were defeated by the Motor Leipzig-Lindenau team 7: 6. In 1952, the GDR states were dissolved and the GDR districts were established instead . The Fraureuther indoor handball players now played as BSG Motor in the handball regional league in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1953). Only in 1955 succeeded in winning the district championship, but the team failed in qualifying for the second-rate GDR league. The rise in the GDR league did not succeed later.

Field handball

In field handball , the league championship was held in the GDR for the first time in 1950/51. Stahl Fraureuth had qualified for the double-track GDR league (later Oberliga) and was fifth in Season II. Until 1957, BSG Motor played continuously in the top handball league and initially always placed itself in the safe midfield. In 1956 they managed to save themselves just before relegation with eighth place out of nine teams. In 1957 Fraureuth had to begin relegation to the now second-rate GDR league as bottom of the table. BSG Motor stayed there until field handball was discontinued after the 1967 season.

People of particular importance

  • Heinz Seiler (1920–2002) was a handball player in Fraureuth, played in the Thuringian handball team and from 1950 to 1952 in the GDR national team . From 1953 to 1972 he was national team coach and in 1958 led the all-German team to the bronze medal at the World Cup.
  • Heinz Stuhlmann (1931–2017) was a handball goalkeeper. In 1950 he began his career in Fraureuth, from 1953 to 1963 he was in the goal of the GDR national team 63 times and in 1959 was handball world champion with the all-German team. In the 1990s he led the handball women of HC Fraureuth (successor to BSG Motor) in the handball upper league in Central Germany .
  • Heinz Singer, member of BSG Motor Fraureuth, was handball referee in the GDR handball league from the 1950s to the 1970s and was also used internationally, for example. B. at five handball world championships and at the 1972 Olympic Games (not to be confused with Heinz Singer, Hamburg)

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