GDR Oberliga (Badminton)

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The league was the highest division in badminton in the GDR and determined the GDR team champions . Over the years it has been renamed several times, so it was sometimes referred to as the Association League , Oberliga A and for a longer period of time as the Special League . In particular, the name Sonderliga reflected the special conditions in badminton, referred to exclusively as shuttlecock in the GDR, in eastern Germany: only in this league was it possible to play with natural shuttlecocks due to the lack of foreign currency for republic-wide cover - and often only with cheap brands such as Pioneer, rarely with high quality brands like Reinforced Shuttlecocks Limited (RSL). The rest was covered with plastic balls (for a long time balls of the "Schwalbe" brand) from our own production, which were always of significantly inferior quality than real shuttlecocks or comparable plastic balls from western manufacturers such as. B. from Carlton Sports .

In 1960 the first GDR team championship took place, but not yet in the form of a league, but as a final round with participants determined in regional preliminary rounds. The first master became an activist Tröbitz on April 18, 1960 . The first league season started the next year. For activist Tröbitz it was only enough for 2nd place this time, the post office Berlin representative was champion . The Tröbitzer , however, held themselves harmless in the next ten years: All titles went to the village in Niederlausitz . Unity Greifswald was even more diligent in the following two decades : From 1972 until the end of the GDR, the team won all other team titles.

The Oberliga followed as the second highest division since the 1961/1962 season, the district league . From the 1967/1968 season, the GDR league was the second highest division in the district league with four regional seasons. From 1970/1971 the Oberliga B existed between the GDR Oberliga and the GDR League.

The winners and those placed

year No. gold silver bronze
1960 I. Activist Tröbitz EBT Berlin Gotha unit
1961 II Post Berlin Activist Tröbitz EBT Berlin
1962 III Activist Tröbitz Post Berlin EBT Berlin
1963 IV Activist Tröbitz Post Berlin EBT Berlin
1964 V Activist Tröbitz Post Berlin Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt
1965 VI Activist Tröbitz Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt Post Berlin
1966 VII Activist Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig EBT Berlin
1967 VIII Activist Tröbitz Motor Zittau EBT Berlin
1968 IX Activist Tröbitz Motor Zittau HSG DHfK Leipzig
1969 X Activist Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig Greifswald unit
1970 XI Activist Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig Greifswald unit
1971 XII Activist Tröbitz Greifswald unit HSG DHfK Leipzig
1972 XIII Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig
1973 XIV Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig
1974 XV Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig
1975 XVI Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig
1976 XVII Greifswald unit HSG DHfK Leipzig SG Gittersee
1977 XVIII Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz SG Gittersee
1978 XIX Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig
1979 XX Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG DHfK Leipzig
1980 XXI Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG locomotive HfV Dresden
1981 XXII Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Progress Tröbitz
1982 XXIII Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Progress Tröbitz
1983 XXIV Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Progress Tröbitz
1984 XXV Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Progress Tröbitz
1985 XXVI Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Progress Tröbitz
1986 XXVII Greifswald unit Progress Tröbitz HSG locomotive HfV Dresden
1987 XXVIII Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Greifswald II unit
1988 XXIX Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden Greifswald II unit
1989 XXX Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden EBT Berlin
1990 XXXI Greifswald unit HSG locomotive HfV Dresden HSG DHfK Leipzig

credentials

  • Martin Knupp: Deutscher Badminton Almanach , self-published (2003), 230 pages
  • René Born: 1957–1997. 40 years of badminton in Tröbitz - The history of BV Tröbitz eV , self-published (1997), 84 pages. ( Online version )
  • René Born: Badminton in Tröbitz (Part 1 - The beginnings, the medal winners, the statistics) , self-published (2007), 455 pages ( online version )