BSG unit Greifswald

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The BSG unit Greifswald was a successful company sports community with several sports sections in Greifswald in the north of the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s .

overview

The name Einheit was a typical name in GDR sport for company sports associations of state administrations and institutions. The home of Einheit Greifswald was the Volksstadion in Greifswald, the club colors were red and white. In 1968 several sections were transferred to the newly founded BSG nuclear power plant North Greifswald .

The most successful section of the BSG, however, were the badminton players , which remained with the BSG unit even after football was spun off in 1968. The team fought for all GDR team titles and innumerable individual titles from 1972 to 1990 . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , however, the team split up into various badminton clubs. In addition, the football section was at times active throughout the GDR.

Soccer story

After the end of the Second World War, an SG Greifswald played in the Mecklenburg state soccer class , which in 1949 gave itself the addition of Greif. In 1950 the SG was converted into the BSG unit Greifswald. The foundation stone for the second force in the north of the GDR next to Hansa Rostock was laid in 1952. With the help of the football section head Walter Hofmann, a team was formed with which the promotion to the then second-class GDR league was possible. Although it initially looked as if the class could not be held, at the end of the 1952/53 season Einheit Greifswald was in an unexpected 6th place. Under the direction of the player-coach "Kieler" Holze, in November 1952 they were still in 16th place.

In the spring, the trainer Franz Schopp , who came from Mittweida , took over the training and, in addition to consolidating the first team, also took care of the youngsters intensively, thus creating the conditions for talented young players to keep coming up in the years to come. Political forces put a sudden end to this work in 1957, as Schopp no ​​longer corresponded to the image of a socialist sports director after opening a restaurant in Greifswald. At the behest of the Greifswald SED district leadership he was dismissed as a trainer.

With Lothar Wießner another talented trainer could be won. In 1958 he led the team to the top of the 2nd GDR league. Unit Greifswald won the promotion round with 5: 3 points. The game in the promotion round against Motor Süd Brandenburg, which was won 3-0, attracted 11,800 visitors on December 7, 1958, creating a record attendance that is still in place for Greifswald football today. In the same year, the youth team won the GDR Cup with a 3-1 final win over Motor Süd Brandenburg. In the following years, the Greifswald unit always played a good role in the second highest class of GDR football ( I. GDR league ). At times, Greifswald had the best soccer team north of Berlin alongside Rostock. The good youth work was rewarded in 1958 when the first youth team won the GDR Cup. In 1954 and 1960, the first team in the GDR Cup ( FDGB Cup ) advanced to the second round.

In 1961 coach Wießner was forced to resign by the players' council under circumstances that are still unclear today. His successor was Günter Horst , who did not succeed in increasing the quality of the team in the following years. On the contrary, it began its gradual decline. Between 1963 and 1965, 17 players left the 1st team, including key forces such as Captain Horst Saß , Helmut Hergesell , Kurt Habermann , Hans-Joachim Steinfurth , Ferdinand Brusch and Karl-Heinz Holze , who after eight years was the most valuable player in the unity team ended his active career. This bloodletting led to relegation from the first GDR league in 1966.

Football statistics

season class placement Surname
1946/47 Western Pomerania Season A 1. - Ascent SG Greifswald
1947/48 National class east 2. SG Greifswald
1948/49 National class east 1. - Ascent SG Greifswald
1949/50 State class Mecklenburg 5. SV Greif Greifswald
1950/51 State class Mecklenburg 5. until 1968 Greifswald unit
1951/52 State class Mecklenburg 1. - Ascent
1952/53 GDR League Season II 8th.
1953/54 GDR League Season II 9.
1954/55 GDR League Season I 8th.
1955 II. GDR League North relay 3.
1956 II. GDR League North relay 10.
1957 II. GDR League North relay 7th
1958 II. GDR League Season 1 1. - Ascent
1959 I. GDR League 5.
1960 I. GDR League 9.
1961/62 I. GDR League 8th.
1962/63 GDR League North Relay 6th
1963/64 GDR League North Relay 12.
1964/65 GDR League North Relay 13.
1965/66 GDR League North Relay 16. - Descent
1966/67 District League Rostock 3.
1967/68 District League Rostock 1. - Ascent
1968/69 see BSG KKW Greifswald

Earlier or later league players

The soccer teams

  • 1962/63:
Peter Below - Manfred Dyck, Günter Rosenthal , Ernst Schuldt, Dietrich Grapentin - Helmut Hergesell, Kurt Habermann - Ferdinand Brusch , Hans-Joachim Steinfurth, Dieter Liepar, Karl-Heinz Holze, Dieter Stein, Horst Tolsdorf, Heinrich Weichbrodt; Trainer: Günter Horst
  • 1965/66 relegation from League North:
Kurt Lippert - Manfred Dyck, Kurt Greger, Dietrich Grapentin, Legien - Werner Dengler, Wolfgang Schröder, Horst Saß - Reinhard Wegner, Dieter Stein, Ernst Schuldt, Werner Neidhardt, Günter Huebner, Walter Dubbert, Günter Engel; Trainer: Günter Horst
  • 1967/68 promotion to the 1st division:
Siegfried Höft, Kurt Lippert - Kurt Greger, Dietrich Grapentin, Ernst Schuldt, Wolfgang Feske, Wolfgang Schröder - Gerd Bekendorf - Günter Czichowski , Horst Tolsdorf, Erwin Dettmann, Hartmut Legien, Lothar Hahn, Gerd Gräfe; Trainer: Dr. Horst sat

Personal career up to 1990

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