SC unit Berlin
The SC Einheit Berlin was a sports club from East Berlin . It was founded in 1954 and merged with SC Rotation Berlin and TSC Oberschöneweide to form TSC Berlin in 1963 .
history
From 1954, the competitive sports sections were separated from the company sports associations (BSG) and combined in sports clubs to promote competitive sports in the GDR sports system . In East Berlin, the sports association Einheit founded the SC Einheit Berlin on November 9, 1954, which took over the competitive athletes from the BSG Einheit Berliner Bär and BSG Einheit Nordost Berlin . The popular athletes stayed in the BSG.
In some cases, individual teams in the BSGen had already been renamed SC Einheit Berlin . The ice hockey players competed under this name a few days before the foundation.
Initially, the SC unit operated the ten sections of gymnastics , athletics , cycling , ice hockey , speed skating , figure skating , canoeing , rowing , tennis and table tennis . In 1958, some sports, including canoeing, were given to TSC Oberschöneweide .
In 1961, the SED district leadership in East Berlin decided that a new sports club should be created in the GDR capital as a "civilian counterpart" to the two existing sports associations of the National People's Army ( Army Sports Association Forward ) and the People's Police ( Sports Association Dynamo ) . For this purpose, the SC Einheit Berlin was merged with the sports clubs SC Rotation Berlin and TSC Oberschöneweide on February 18, 1963 to form TSC Berlin.
sports
The careers of various branches of the club are described below. The list of the categories listed does not claim to be complete.
ice Hockey
The ice hockey department, which was taken over by the BSG unit Berliner Bär , played in the upper league until 1963 - the top division in GDR ice hockey . In order to reduce the number of Berlin teams in the major league, TSC Oberschöneweide joined the ice hockey team of the SC unit in 1960. Unit was runner-up twice (1956 and 1957) and third (1955 and 1958).
One of the well-known players was Joachim Ziesche , who took part in international tournaments (World Cup, European Championship and Olympic Games) with the GDR national ice hockey team.
Soccer
The footballers of the SC unit were not very successful. The greatest success was the qualification for the East Berlin District League in 1955, when this was expanded to two seasons. Unity contested the sportingly insignificant transition round in 1955, when the championship was aligned with the calendar year based on the Soviet model, and was already relegated in 1956 after the district league was reduced to one season again.
Cycling
The SC unit also took over the cyclists of the BSG unit, including u. a. Werner Malitz , Heinz Wahl , Fritz Jahresling or Jürgen Simon , who won several GDR championships in track cycling for both Berliner Bär and SC Einheit . Andrea Elle and Karin Stüwe were among the most outstanding drivers . The following GDR championship titles were won by SC Einheit Berlin:
- Men's:
- 5 × Sprint : 1955, 1956, 1959–1961
- 1 × 1000 m time trial : 1955
- 4 × 4000 m single pursuit : 1956-1959
- 2 × 4,000 m team pursuit : 1961, 1962
- 1 × tandem race : 1955
- 6 × two-man team drives : 1955, 1957–1959, 1961, 1962
- Women:
- 3 × sprint: 1960–1962
- 2 × 500 m time trials: 1961, 1962
- 2 × 3000 m single pursuit: 1960, 1961
In addition, unit provided several cyclists for the all-German team at the 1960 Summer Olympics . Here Simon won the silver medal in tandem with Lothar Stäber from SC Dynamo Berlin . Bernd Barleben and Siegfried Köhler also won silver in the 4,000-meter team pursuit together with Manfred Klieme and Peter Gröning from Dynamo Berlin.
rowing
The rowers from Einheit won numerous GDR championship titles for the club. One of the most famous rowers was Achim Hill , who later won two silver medals at the 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games. The following GDR championship titles were won by the SC unit:
- 1 × Men's One (1954)
- 2 × two men without helmsman (1954 and 1957)
- 2 × two men with helmsman (1957 and 1960)
- 1 × men's double scull (1953 as a racing community with SG Grünau)
- 1 × Women One (1957)
- 4 × women foursome with taxwoman (1957–1960)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SK unit Berlin very strong . In: Berliner Zeitung . November 11, 1954, p. 4 .
- ↑ Folker Lorenz, Hans Raschke: 65 years of Sportgemeinschaft Einheit Berliner Bär e. V. (PDF; 221 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Einheit-berliner-baer.de. SG Unit Berliner Bär e. V., October 23, 1999, archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; Retrieved December 19, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A worthwhile look . In: Berliner Zeitung . November 4, 1954, p. 4 .
- ^ Forerunner of the Berlin-Grünau sports club before 1969. In: scbg.de. SC Berlin-Grünau , accessed on December 19, 2012 .
- ↑ History of the Berlin TSC e. V. In: berlinertsc.de. Berlin TSC, accessed on January 5, 2016 .
- ^ On the history of ice hockey in Chemnitz. (No longer available online.) In: erv07.de. Ice and roller sports club Chemnitz 07, November 29, 1999, archived from the original on May 3, 2009 ; Retrieved August 5, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Matthias Opatz: GDR championship - not a monotony until 1970. In: lotok.de/ost-eishockey. Retrieved April 16, 2009 .
- ^ Karlheinz Heckert: Cycling. In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved February 5, 2013 .
- ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: GDR rowing championships for women and men from 1949 to 1990 (places 1 to 3). In: rrk-online.de. Rüsselsheim Rowing Club 08 e. V., accessed on May 6, 2009 .
