FSC Dynamo Eilenburg
The Skydiving Club Dynamo Eilenburg was the GDR performance center for skydiving in Eilenburg , Saxony . As an independent sports club within the Dynamo sports association , it only existed in 1988/1989. The Ministry for State Security was the sponsor .
history
In 1956, a skydiving section was founded at SC Dynamo Berlin . However, since the main training facility was in Hoppegarten at the gates of Berlin , in 1963/64 the parachutists were spun off from Dynamo Berlin together with other local sections and the SC Dynamo Hoppegarten was created . Further training locations were the Strausberg and Eggersdorf airfields as well as the Schönebeck airfield near Pömmelte and the Eisenhüttenstadt airfield .
The Eilenburg airfield in the Rote Jahne district of Doberschütz became the new headquarters of the parachutists in 1966 . Until 1988 they competed under the name SC Dynamo Hoppegarten. Only then, shortly before the end of the GDR, did the parachute section become independent under the name SC Dynamo Eilenburg, but was dissolved two years later. The newly founded Fallschirmsportverein Eilenburg e. V. (FSV Eilenburg).
By 1990, parachutists from Eilenburg had won a total of 24 gold, 15 silver and 14 bronze medals in the classic disciplines of target and figure jumping at world championships. Dynamo jumper Günther Gerhardt became the first German world champion in skydiving in 1966. In the Eilenburg training center, more than 50 children and adolescents continuously practiced parachuting.