GDR wrestling championships 1978

The GDR wrestling championships were held for the 30th time in 1978 and were held in the Greco-Roman style in Leipzig and freestyle in Luckenwalde .

Results

Date: June 10-11, 1978

Participants: 52 active participants in ten weight classes (the fly and bantam weight was only occupied by two or three active participants)

class	space	Surname	society
Half fly weight (up to 48 kg)
	1.	Hans-Jürgen Seifert	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
	2.	Dietmar Hinz	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Jürgen Scholz	BSG Motor Artern

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)
	1.	Bernd Kruse	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.
	2.	Jürgen Fuchs	BSG Motor Tambach-Dietharz
	3.	was not awarded

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)
	1.	Bernd Drechsel	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
	2.	Roland Finger	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Uwe Zimmermann	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)
	1.	Roland Werner	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	2.	Klaus Petzold	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.
	3.	Steffen Petzold	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)
	1.	Heinz-Helmut Wehling	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.
	2.	Lothar Fleischmann	SC Leipzig
	3.	Frieder Meyer	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.

Welter weight (up to 74 kg)
	1.	Klaus Triebel	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
	2.	Ralf Thieme	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Uwe Witthuhn	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.

Middle weight (up to 82 kg)
	1.	Frank Fritsche	SC Leipzig
	2.	Klaus Zimmermann	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Ulrich Franke	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

Light heavyweight (up to 90 kg)
	1.	Herbert Goetze	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
	2.	Wolfgang Biehl	SC Leipzig
	3.	Hubert Goltz	SC Leipzig

Heavy weight (up to 100 kg)
	1.	Jonny Hollander	BSG Motor Tambach-Dietharz
	2.	Hubert Goltz	SC Leipzig
	3.	Hartmut Fleischhauer	BSG Motor Artern

Super heavyweight (over 100 kg)
	1.	Klaus-Dieter Zindl	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
	2.	Hartmut Wrazidlo	SC Leipzig
	3.	Siegfried Lang	BSG Motor WW Warnemünde

Date: June 24-25, 1978

Participants: 90 active participants in ten weight classes

class	space	Surname	society
Half fly weight (up to 48 kg)
	1.	Carsten Hönschke	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	2.	Jürgen Zocher	BSG Wismut Aue
	3.	Mario Schaar	SC Leipzig

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)
	1.	Heinz Thiel	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.
	2.	Frank Goldmann	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Frank Shepherd	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)
	1.	Hans-Dieter Brüchert	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	2.	Peter Dahlke	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Bernd Bobrich	SC Chemistry Hall

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)
	1.	Erhard Pocher	SC Motor Jena
	2.	Norbert Gatzke	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Uwe Krause	SC Motor Jena

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)
	1.	Eberhard Probst	SC Chemistry Hall
	2.	Siegfried Lippke	SC Motor Jena
	3.	Roberto Hünisch	SC Leipzig

Welter weight (up to 74 kg)
	1.	Reinhold stone graves	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.
	2.	Bernd Radschunat	SC Chemistry Hall
	3.	Gerald Brewer	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

Middle weight (up to 82 kg)
	1.	Armin Weier	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	2.	Volker Dürer	SC Motor Jena
	3.	Hans-Peter Franz	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

Light heavyweight (up to 90 kg)
	1.	Uwe Neupert	SC Motor Jena
	2.	Rüdiger Möhring	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Hans-Jürgen Nagel	SC Motor Jena

Heavy weight (up to 100 kg)
	1.	Harald Buettner	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	2.	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Fred Rosentreter	SC Chemistry Hall

Super heavyweight (over 100 kg)
	1.	Roland Gehrke	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	2.	Thomas Wenzel	SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
	3.	Erhard Schmelzer	BSG Wismut Aue

	Total		20th	20th	19th	59
space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
1		SG Dynamo Luckenwalde	6th	100	4th	20th0
2		SC Motor Zella-Mehlis	5	-	-	5
3		ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	4th	1	4th	9
4th		SC Motor Jena	2	2	2	6th
5		SC Leipzig	1	4th	3	8th
6th		SC Chemistry Hall	1	1	2	4th
7th		BSG Motor Tambach-Dietharz	1	1	-	2
8th		BSG Wismut Aue	-	1	1	2
9		BSG Motor Artern	-	-	2	2
9		BSG Motor WW Warnemünde	-	-	1	1

Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1979 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1978, ISSN 0232-2137 , p. 212 .
New Germany . 142 and 148. Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1978, ISSN 0323-3375 .