Handball GDR Championship 1951/52

The handball GDR championship 1951/52 was held in the disciplines of field and indoor handball for men and women. The SG Volkspolizei Halle became GDR champions both in the hall and on the field.

Men

Field handball

The GDR men's field handball champions were determined with the field handball league of the German game committee. Twelve teams took part in the single-track league and played a double round. The first half of the season took place in the summer and autumn of 1951. Since after the conclusion of the league with the SG Volkspolizei Halle and the BSG Einheit Calbe two teams were tied at the top, a final had to be played according to the regulations.

Final score
Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	SV German People's Police Halle	22nd	17th	1	04th	224: 142	35: 09
2.	BSG unit Calbe	22nd	17th	1	04th	193: 133	35: 09
3.	BSG Motor Fermersleben	22nd	15th	-	07th	180: 136	30:14
4th	BSG Rotation Leipzig	22nd	12	1	09	138: 131	25:19
5.	BSG Motor Roßlau	22nd	11	2	09	198: 197	24:20
6th	BSG Motor Rostock	22nd	10	1	11	192: 172	21:23
7th	BSG Motor Fraureuth	22nd	08th	2	12	148: 163	18:26
8th.	BSG locomotive Gera	22nd	08th	2	12	189: 212	18:26
9.	BSG Motor Eisenach	22nd	08th	1	13	139: 143	17:27
10.	BSG Motor West Leipzig	22nd	08th	1	13	129: 172	17:27
11.	BSG Motor Mihoma Leipzig	22nd	06th	3	13	113: 162	15:29
12.	BSG locomotive south Leipzig	22nd	04th	1	17th	129: 213	09:35

Final on June 22, 1952
SG Volkspolizei Halle - BSG unit Calbe 10: 9
Hall: Klein - Meier, Vaupel; Schewe, Masella, Swirzy; Stolfig, Föhrig, Reppe, Koehler, Püschel Calbe: Napp - Siegel, Schloecker; Wenzel, Zeibig, Korting; Knoche, Helming, Eisenhardt, Aßmann, Kaatz Referees: Singer (Fraureuth); Spectators: 30,000 in the construction workers' stadium, Magdeburg

The advantages lay initially with the team from Calbe , which was not impressed by the robustly playing Halle defense. Halle scored the first goal, but in the 6th minute it was already 2: 1 for the BSG unit. After a quarter of an hour Calbe was leading 4-1, then the Aßmann from Calbens awarded a penalty and the game took a dramatic turn. The People's Police were able to equalize by half-time, after which they achieved an 8: 5 lead within six minutes. The victory, which was now believed to be safe, was in danger again. Calbe managed to tie again at 8: 8 within eight minutes. The team would almost have taken the lead again if another penalty had not been awarded by the most accurate Calbenser Kraatz to date. On the other hand, the people of Halle used their chances better and pulled away again 10: 8. Three minutes before the end, Kraatz managed to hit the next goal, but the SG Volkspolizei defended their one-goal lead until the final whistle.

Indoor handball

The 1952 indoor handball championship was held in January. Until the third week the five national champions were determined in tournament form:

There was initially a conflict with the West Berlin handball association about the participation of an East Berlin participant . While the GDR sports committee wanted SC Weißensee , which was the only East Berlin team to be represented in the overall Berlin handball league, to take part in the GDR championship, as in previous years , the West Berliners protested that the finals Participation of the SC Weißensee the schedule of the Berlin Oberliga would be in danger. Shortly before the start of the final round, the GDR sports committee gave in and nominated the second-class East Berlin BSG Motor Friedrichshain Ost.

The GDR championship tournament was held on January 26th and 27th, 1952 in the Leipzig Exhibition Center.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the five national champions and the East Berlin representative competed against each other in two seasons:

Season A

Up Leipzig-Lindenau - Motor Friedrichshain East	6: 4
Up Leipzig-Lindenau - Stahl Fraureuth	6: 5
Stahl Fraureuth - Motor Friedrichshain Ost	5: 2

Final score
Pl.	team	Gates	Points
1	Up Leipzig-Lindenau	12: 9	4-0
2	Stahl Fraureuth	10: 8	2: 2
3	Motor Friedrichshain Ost	06:11	0: 4

Season B

SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Halle - Motor Rostock	5: 5
People's Police Hall - Motor Luckenwalde	6: 4
Motor Luckenwalde - Motor Rostock	5: 3

Final score
Pl.	team	Gates	Points
1	SV German People's Police Halle	11: 9	4-0
2	Luckenwalde engine	9: 9	2: 2
3	Motor Rostock	8:10	1: 3

Semifinals

In the semifinals there was a cross comparison of the two best placed winners of seasons A and B. The winners qualified for the finals.

Motor Luckenwalde - Empor Leipzig-Lindenau	3: 2
SV German People's Police Halle - Stahl Fraureuth	9: 3

Endgame

(January 27th in the Leipzig exhibition hall)

SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Halle - BSG Motor Luckenwalde 3: 1

The SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Halle successfully defended last year's title thanks to better tactics. The cornerstone for the victory was the consistent elimination of the Luckenwalder attack peaks. The Halle cover had some difficulties at the beginning and granted the motor team the 1-0 lead. But after the defense had stabilized, Halle turned the game in his favor and clearly dominated until the 3-1 final score.

Women

Indoor handball finals

The championship in GDR indoor handball for women was decided on January 26th and 27th, 1952 in the Leipzig Exhibition Hall II in a final round with six teams.

Group games

(January 26, 1952)

Group A
BSG Unit Weimar - BSG Motor Wismar	6: 1
SC Weißensee - BSG unit Weimar	4: 3
SC Weißensee - SG Motor Wismar	1-0

Pl	team	S.	N	Gates	Points
1	SC Weißensee	2	0	5: 3	4-0
2	BSG unit Weimar	1	1	9: 5	2: 2
3	BSG Motor Wismar	0	2	1: 7	0: 4

Group B
Progress Weissenfels - Rotation Babelsberg	2: 1
Progress Weissenfels - Stahl West Leipzig	3: 1
Stahl West Leipzig - Babelsberg Rotation	3: 2

Pl	team	S.	N	Gates	Points
1	SC progress Weissenfels	2	0	5: 2	4-0
2	BSG Steel West Leipzig	1	1	4: 5	2: 2
3	BSG Steel West Leipzig	1	1	4: 5	2: 2

Semifinals

(January 27, 1952)

SC Weißensee - BSG Stahl West Leipzig	6-0
SC progress Weißenfels - BSG unit Weimar	4: 7 a.d.

Endgame

(January 27, 1952)

SC Weißensee - BSG unit Weimar 4: 3

Field handball final

In field handball, too, the women's championship team was determined in a final round that was held in May and June 1952. Only four teams from East Berlin (B), Brandenburg (BB), Mecklenburg (MB) and Saxony-Anhalt were involved .

Preliminary round

(May 18, 1952)

BSG Rotation Berlin (B) - BSG Motor Dessau (ST)	3: 2 a.d.
BSG activist Klettwitz (BB) - BSG Motor Wismar (MB)	2: 5

Semifinals

(June 8, 1952)

BSG Unit Weimar (TH) - BSG Rotation Berlin (B)	???
BSG Motor West Leipzig (SN) - BSG Motor Wismar (MB)	???

Endgame

The final of the women's field handball championship also took place on June 22, 1952 in the Magdeburg Stadium of Friendship as a prelude to the men's final. The BSG unit Weimar dethroned last year's champion Motor West Leipzig.

BSG Unit Weimar - BSG Motor West Leipzig 9: 7 (7: 3)

literature

German sports echo , born 1951/52

Web links

Commons : GDR Handball Championship 1952 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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