BSG progress Weissenfels

Logo of the BSG Progress Weissenfels

The BSG Progress Weissenfels (meanwhile also SC Progress Weissenfels ) was a company sports community or a sports club in the city of Weißenfels . The sports club was primarily known for its handball and football sections . Historical names of the sports club were SG Weißenfels-Süd , ZSG Schuhmetro Weißenfels and BSG Schuhmetro Weißenfels .

history

Logo of the SC progress Weissenfels

In 1946 the sports community Weißenfels-Süd was founded. As part of the formation of company sports associations , the SG Weißenfels-Süd merged into the central sports association Schuhmetro Weißenfels in 1948/49. The carrier company was the VEB shoe factory "Banner of Peace". A little later, the ZSG became the BSG. The company sports associations in the GDR were finally grouped into sports associations according to their branches of industry . The sports association formed for the textile and clothing industry was the SV progress. On April 1, 1951, the sports club was renamed BSG Progress Weissenfels.

On December 21, 1954, the BSG progress Weissenfels was raised to a sports club, the SC progress Weissenfels. The SC progress Weissenfels existed until 1961. In that year the sports clubs were restructured and Weißenfels downgraded to the BSG again.

In 1990, after the reunification in the GDR, the company sports associations were dissolved. The direct successor to BSG Progress Weissenfels was the Weissenfels Sports Club in 1861.

Handball

The most successful section of the BSG Progress Weissenfels was handball. In total, the sports club was able to win sixteen handball championships and one cup competition.

Men's

Immediately after the war, Weißenfels was a top team in field handball . In 1948 ZSG Schuhmetro Weißenfels first won the state championship Saxony-Anhalt in the final against SG Magdeburg-Neue Neustadt just 7: 6 after extra time , which qualified them for the east zone championship. After they beat SG Leipzig-Eutritzsch 11: 7 in the semifinals, they reached the championship final. The SG Rostock-West was waiting for the final . The game took place on July 4, 1948 in Leipzig's Probstheidaer Stadium, later known as the Bruno Plache Stadium , in front of 40,000 spectators. The final was a double event, as the final of the soccer championship between SG Planitz and SG Freiimfelde Halle was held on the same day . Weißenfels won the game with a clear 12: 7 and won the first title.

In the 1951/52 season, the BSG progress Weissenfels was 2nd in the second-rate field handball league and thus managed to move up to the top division . In this, the club was able to hold two seasons before relegation followed. The promotion was successful in 1956 and again Weißenfels held the class for two seasons before one had to relegate again. The league could be held until 1966, when the club was relegated to the third division from this.

Ladies

In the second half of the 1950s, the handball ladies of the sports club made progress in Weißenfels into the most successful handball club in the GDR. So you won six times the championship title in indoor handball and nine times in field handball. The women from progress in Weißenfels were record champions for many years .

The first time in a final for the championship in women's handball were women of the BSG on July 15, 1951 in Magdeburg. Against BSG Stahl West Leipzig , the Weißenfelserinnen lost the final in field handball 5: 3. The SC progress Weissenfels, which was renamed in the course of the season, celebrated its first title in 1954, when it was the first GDR championship in field handball. In 1955 both titles, the championship in field handball and indoor handball, could be won for the first time. In the final round in indoor handball, the SC Progress prevailed against the BSG Lokomotive Rangsdorf and against the SC DHfK Leipzig . In the final in field handball on July 17, 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , SC Progress Weissenfels won 5-2 against BSG Progress Oberlungwitz . The sports club also won the field handball trophy, which was held once this year, so that 1955 should be the club's most successful with three official titles.

In the following season, the SC progress lost both the championship in field handball and indoor handball and came in second. For the next few years, Weißenfels dominated the field handball league and was champion seven times in a row between 1957 and 1963. The final on September 30, 1961 against SC Rotation Berlin (7: 3) was watched by 12,000 spectators in the Heinz-Steyer Stadium in Dresden . In indoor handball, the club won the titles in 1958 and 1959 and 1962 to 1964. In the meantime, it was renamed the company sports community. As a result, some good placements were achieved. However, there was a clear downward trend. A first low point was reached in the 1972/73 season, when you landed with only one win on the penultimate place in the league table and had to relegate. From the league, the second highest division, one rose several times to the district league.

successes

Men's East Zone Championships :
- in field handball 1948
GDR championships for women :
- in field handball 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
- in indoor handball 1955, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964
Cup wins :
- in field handball 1955

Eternal table of the indoor handball GDR league women 1954–1964

Rank 1

Eternal table of the GDR Oberliga women 1964–1991

Rank 10

Soccer

history

Before 1945

The beginnings of Weißenfels football go back to the Weißenfels FC Prussia in 1900. From it arose in 1920 through a merger with the TV Lion Weißenfels the gymnastics and lawn sports association 1861 Weißenfels. From 1929 they played in a football stadium that had been converted from a racetrack that had existed since 1926 and held 20,000 spectators. The TuRV Weißenfels reached the preliminary round of the Central German Championship in 1926.

1945 to 1960

After the resumption of regular sports traffic, which was initially only permitted at the district level, the soccer team of the SG Weißenfels-Süd played in the district league, from 1948 in the state class Saxony-Anhalt. The football team of the company sports association had fought third place in the national class in 1950 and thus qualified for the second-rate GDR league . There she played a good role from the start and finished second to fourth in the following four seasons. On June 14, 1953 Alfred Reinhardt was used as a half-right striker in the GDR national team, which scored a 0-0 against Bulgaria in Dresden. Reinhardt remained Weißenfels' only national soccer player. With the beginning of the game year 1954/55 Werner Pytlick took over the training of the Weißenfelser. Pytlick came from Duisburg-Meiderich , where he had played for Meidericher SV in the West German league . He tightened the training and at the end of the season the team had won first place in the league season 2 and the associated promotion to the GDR league . In the course of the season, the sports community was upgraded as SC progress on December 21, 1954 in the course of the sports club formation in GDR sports as a focus club of the sports association progress. Since the football game was switched to the calendar year in 1955, the SC had to complete the meaningless transition round in the fall of that year, in which it finished 7th. Although coach Pytlick left the club again at the beginning of 1956 due to displeasure with political control, the Weißenfelser were able to assert themselves in the top division in the following seasons and achieved their best result in the 1959 season with 6th place. They also proved their form this year by reaching the quarter-finals of the GDR Cup ( FDGB Cup ). After winning 4: 2 in the second round of last year’s second SC Motor Jena , it was only after a 0: 1 against BSG Motor Zwickau that it was over. The stadium, which has since been renamed "Otto Müller-Kampfbahn", attracted an average of 8,000, and up to 15,000 in top games.

Family eleven 1959
Surname	Age	position	Season games	later career
Hans-Günther Tuszynski	23	goal	22nd	1961 BSG Motor Zwickau
Dieter Gänkler	23	Right-back	26th
Dieter Stricksner	21st	stopper	24	1961 SC Motor Jena
Harry Wiesemann	32	Left-back	26th	1960 end of career
Heinz Elzemann	25th	Right runner	26th	1960 end of career
Wolfgang Blatt	26th	Left runner	19th
Alfred Reinhardt	31	Right winger	17th	1962 end of career
Hans Ackermann	30th	Half right	26th	1961 BSG Chemie Zeitz
Eberhard Dallagrazia	22nd	Center Forward	25th	1961 SC Lokomotive Leipzig
Horst Meyer	26th	Half left	24
Heinz Degenkolbe	21st	Left winger	26th

1960 to 1989

The decline came as a surprise in 1960 . Without a win but with high defeats (0: 7 against SC Empor Rostock and 1: 7 against SC Dynamo Berlin ), Progress ended up in last place in the table at the end of the season. Also in the GDR league season 1961/62 the Weißenfelser were passed through to the penultimate place in the table, but escaped relegation because the GDR league was expanded from one to two seasons. In 1961 the sports club was downgraded to a company sports community. For two years, the footballers of the company sports community progress were able to stay in the midfield of the GDR league, until 1966 with the last place in the table, relegation followed. Although the team was able to rise again after a year in the Halle district league, they only held the league for one season. 1978 and 1983 succeeded twice with the district championship in the Halle district league ascent to the GDR league, which played in five seasons. The direct relegation followed. 1984 only because the GDR league was reorganized from five to two seasons.

After 1989

After the end of the GDR and the dissolution of the sports associations and company sports associations, the new sports club Weißenfels was founded in 1861. Its first soccer team was classified in the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt (5th division) at the beginning of the 1990/91 season. When the sports club ran into financial difficulties in 1992, the football department was founded as 1. FC Weißenfels from the entire club. Except for the 1998/99 season, FC was initially able to hold onto the national league. In 2007 he was relegated to the national class for a second time. In 2013, he was promoted to the now seventh-class national league. In summer 2018 there was a merger of 1. FC and SC UM Weißenfels to form SSC Weißenfels. After a season in the Landesliga Süd and the championship, the new club was promoted to the Football Association League Saxony-Anhalt .

League statistics

1946–1948 District League Weissenfels
1948–1950 state class Saxony-Anhalt
1950–1955 1st GDR League
1955–1960 GDR league
1961–1966 GDR League
1966/67 Halle district league
1967/68 GDR League
1968–1978 District League Halle
1978/79 GDR League
1979–1983 District League Halle
1983/84 GDR League
1984–1990 Halle district league

Eternal table of the GDR Oberliga Rank 26

Eternal table of the GDR league rank 39

Achievements and titles

DDR-Oberliga 1955-1960
Quarter-finalist in the 1959 FDGB Cup
District cup winners 1975, 1980

Known players

literature

Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 383.
Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 346.