All- around champion Alfred Müller during an exercise on the parallel bars
The first " Championships of the German Democratic Republic in apparatus gymnastics " were held on October 21 and 22, 1950 in the Thuringian city of Greiz .
After an eastern zone championship had taken place in the previous year , a GDR championship in apparatus gymnastics was held for the first time in October 1950 . Gymnastics and gymnastics were considered to be the so-called basic branch of the democratic sports movement in the German Democratic Republic and were therefore of particular importance.
Six gymnasts from each of the six federal states of Berlin , Brandenburg , Mecklenburg , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia had qualified for the championships, which took place in the sports school of the German Sports Committee in Greiz . In the men's twelve fight, last year's winner Heinz Boll (Berlin) and Alfred Müller (Leuna) were the favorites for the title, while the young gymnasts Albin Lätzer (Greiz) and Gerhard Braune (Jena) were named as promising candidates . Gertrud Brügstein (Rudolstadt), Dorothea Dittmar (Halle) and Helga Speck (Halle) as well as the Leipzig gymnasts were listed as favorites in the women's eight fight . The preliminary fights took place on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m., the final fights were held on Sunday from 3 p.m.
Charlotte Scholz secured the title in the women's eight fight , who was also able to win all individual disciplines. Ursula Mandel , who took second place after the compulsory exercises, was overtaken by three competitors in the course of the free exercises and was fifth in the final score.
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