SC unit Dresden (soccer)
The former football section of SC Einheit Dresden was a fixture in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football , in the 1950s .
Structural development
The Unity Sports Club was founded on November 20, 1954 as a focus club of the Unity Central Sports Association and combined all popular sports in addition to football. The soccer section was formed from the teams of the company sports association Rotation Dresden, whose 1st team played in the major league since 1950. The venue was the Dresden Heinz Steyer Stadium . The roots of the BSG Rotation go back to the traditional Dresdner SC , which was one of the top German football clubs before the Second World War. In his successor, the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt was established in 1946 , but it was dissolved in 1950 for political reasons. The SG Dresden-Mickten continued the football work of the Friedrichstadters and was converted into the BSG Sachsenverlag Dresden on May 1, 1950 after the introduction of the system of company sports associations (BSG). A little later, the BSG was renamed to BSG Rotation following the uniform grid of the company sports associations.
Athletic career
Successful as a BSG rotation
The SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt first appeared nationally when they qualified for the 2nd Eastern Zone Championship in 1949 . There she reached the quarter-finals, where she was defeated by the ZSG Union Halle with 1: 2. As the Saxon national champion, however, the team had qualified for the first season of the newly founded league. There she was one of the top teams in 1949/50 and had the chance on the last day of the game to become GDR champions with a win over Horch Zwickau . After a 1: 5 defeat by controversial referee decisions, only the second place remained, after which a large part of the team withdrew to West Berlin. The GDR sports leadership took this as an opportunity to dissolve the sports community, which on top of that had refused to accept the status of a company sports community. While the newly founded SG Volkspolizei Dresden took over the Oberligaplatz of the Friedrichstadters in the 1950/51 season, the BSG Sachsenverlag / Rotation Dresden, the actual successor of SG Friedrichstadt, also qualified for the Oberliga through the Saxon championship and a promotion round. With the veterans Fritz Ritter , Kurt Hoegg, Heinz Berner and the hopeful talents Heinz Nicklich, Felix Vogel and Eberhard Petersohn, the newcomer was able to secure the league and came just a year later with only two points behind the local rivals and new champions VP / Dynamo Dresden in fourth place. In the 1952/53 season rotated with the attack row Prenzel, Vogel, Arlt, Müller and Petersohn, which earned the title "Wundersturm" during the season and had scored the most goals in the league with 65 goals at the end of the season. Harry Arlt contributed 26 goals and was the top scorer of the championship. On Sunday, November 14th, 1954, the league team of the BSG Rotation Dresden played a league game for the last time under the old name.
Cup winner as an SC unit
On Sunday, November 21, 1954, the team appeared for the first time as SC Einheit Dresden at the away game at Vorwärts Berlin. The team finished the league season 1954/55 with 4th place. Since December 1954, she was the only Dresden league representative, as the league team of local rivals Dynamo had been relocated to SC Dynamo Berlin. When he switched to the sports club, Hans Siegert took over the position of coach who looked after the team until 1959. He knew how to successfully integrate newcomers such as goalkeeper Großstück , midfielder Hansen and striker Knappe, so that the SC unit could hold a secure place in the top division in the following years. Wolfgang Großstück and Wolfgang Pfeifer became national players under Siegert's leadership . In 1958, the club achieved the greatest success in football history. After a convincing 3: 1 victory at the newly crowned GDR champions Vorwärts Berlin , the Dresdeners had reached the final of the GDR soccer cup competition. On December 14, 1958, they met in Cottbus in the final against SC Lok Leipzig and won the GDR Cup in 1958 with a 2-1 after extra time. Wolfgang Pfeifer (1: 1, 68th) and the Leipzig Söllner scored the goals for Einheit Dresden with an own goal (113th). The Dresden team played with the following team:
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Wolfgang Großstück (26 years) Christoph Albig (33), Gerd Losert (23), Werner Jochmann (32)
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Relegation after 14 years in the league
From the victorious team, Albig, Müller, Matthes and Petersohn left the sports club in the next few years and Gottfried Eisler replaced Siegert as coach in 1960. Despite the bloodletting, Eisler, who had taken over the Dresden team as the third from bottom of the 1959 season, was able to secure relegation in 1960. In the 1961/62 season, which went over 39 rounds after changing the season from the calendar year to the autumn-summer rhythm, Einheit fought again against relegation, and Eisler was replaced by Heinz Seifert. Although the former national players Großstück and Pfeifer were still in the team, the new coach could not avoid relegation after 14 years of senior league membership. With only nine wins and a goal difference of 48:73, Einheit Dresden was relegated to the GDR league .
End as a second division
In the years immediately following relegation, veterans like Werner Jochmann (291 league games), Felix Vogel (246), Wolfgang Pfeifer (177), Wolfgang Großstück (128) and Manfred Hansen (108) left the club mostly for reasons of age, so one quick recovery was out of the question. Felix Vogel had taken over the coaching position and was close to promotion in the first two years with the 3rd and 2nd place, but the 1964/65 season was only finished with 7th place. During this season, the soccer teams were separated from the sports clubs and converted into independent soccer clubs. In Dresden, thanks to the special position of SG Dynamo Dresden, this process went in a different direction. Dynamo also hoped for FC status, but the head of the GDR State Security Service Erich Mielke did not want to tolerate any competition in his own dynamo warehouse alongside his FC Dynamo in Berlin . He finally agreed with the GDR sports leadership that the SG Dynamo Dresden was raised to the priority community of the Dresden district - to the detriment of the SC Einheit, whose second-class soccer team was not believed to have the makings of another soccer focus next to the SG Dynamo. Nevertheless, the soccer section was spun off from the SC unit and had to reorganize. So on January 6, 1966 the football game association (FSV) Lokomotive Dresden was founded, the seven-year football era SC Einheit Dresden was over.
Placements rotation / unit
| 1950/51 | 12. | Oberliga |
| 1951/52 | 4th | Oberliga |
| 1952/53 | 4th | Oberliga |
| 1953/54 | 7th | Oberliga |
| 1954/55 | 4th | Oberliga |
| 1956 | 5. | Oberliga |
| 1957 | 8th. | Oberliga |
| 1958 | 5. | Oberliga |
| 1959 | 12. | Oberliga |
| 1960 | 12. | Oberliga |
| 1961/62 | 13. | Oberliga |
| 1962/63 | 3. | GDR League |
| 1963/64 | 2. | GDR League |
| 1964/65 | 7th | GDR League |
people
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Record appearances (league games)
- 291 - Werner Jochmann
- 246 - Felix Vogel
- 206 - Eberhard Petersohn
- 194 - Werner Prenzel
- 188 - Lothar Müller
- 177 - Christoph Albig
- 177 - Wolfgang Pfeifer
- 147 - Fritz Ritter
- 139 - Harry Arlt
- 128 - Wolfgang Großstück
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Record goal scorers
- 72 - Felix Vogel
- 68 - Harry Arlt
- 53 - Eberhard Petersohn
- 50 - Werner Prenzel
- 45 - Heinz Nicklich
- 44 - Lothar Müller
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National player
- 2 × - Wolfgang Pfeifer (1958–1959)
- 1 × - Wolfgang Großstück (1958)
- 1 × - Horst Walter (1962)
