SC Tractor Schwerin
The SC Traktor Schwerin was a sports club from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which promoted boxing , athletics , volleyball and sailing as the main sports .
history
The SC Traktor Schwerin was founded in June 1955 as part of the founding of sports clubs in the GDR. After the reunification , the club was converted into Schweriner SC in 1990 . After the club had to withdraw its boxing relay from the Bundesliga for financial reasons in 2001, the boxing club Traktor Schwerin was founded in 2002 . From 1956 to 1984 the former Kurhotel Zippendorf was the club house and residence of the sports club.
Boxing
The boxing relay of SC Traktor Schwerin won the GDR team championship three times from 1957 to 1959. From 1972 to 1990, the team brought 15 more titles to Schwerin, during this period the team only missed the title in four years.
Middleweight Paul Nickel won a bronze medal at the European Championships in 1957, making him the first international medalist from Schwerin. Nickel coached the Schwerin boxers in the 1970s. His protégé Jochen Bachfeld was the club's first welterweight Olympic champion in 1976 in Montreal . Richard Nowakowski won silver at featherweight in Montreal, and in 1977 he was the first Schwerin to win a European championship. With two Olympic medals and two European championship titles, Nowakowski is one of the club's most successful boxers.
When the Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, a replacement tournament was held for the boxers in Havana. Only one non-Cuban won his weight class at this tournament: the welterweight Torsten Schmitz . In 1985 , three Schwerin boxers, René Breitbarth , Dieter Berg and Michael Timm , won the European Championship, all three were trained by Fritz Sdunek . In 1987 flyweight Andreas Tews , trained by Otto Ramin , was another Schwerin European champion. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 Tews won silver, while the lightweight Andreas Zülow won the gold medal.
After reunification , Schwerin SC won the first all-German team championship in 1991. Andreas Tews became Olympic champion in 1992.
athletics
The first GDR master of SC Traktor Schwerin was hammer thrower Siegfried Perleberg in 1956 . At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , the javelin thrower Walter Krüger won silver and thus the first Olympic medal for the SC Tractor Schwerin. In the 1960s, the runner Gertrud Schmidt was the club's most successful athlete; in the 1970s, the decathlete Siegfried Stark achieved top positions at European championships and the Olympic Games. The first Schwerin Olympic champion in athletics was the high jumper Gerd Wessig at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , who also set a new world record with a height of 2.36 meters. Jürgen Schult had already become Junior European Champion in 1979 . In 1986, Schult set the world record in discus throwing, which is still valid today (as of 2009) with 74.08 meters . At the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Schwerin had two world champions, alongside Jürgen Schult, the decathlete Torsten Voss was also successful. In the following year at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, Schult won gold, Voss received the silver medal.
After an Olympic and world championship title, Schult also won the title of European champion in 1990 . Also in 1990 two young women from Schwerin won the world championship title at the Junior World Championships: sprinter Andrea Philipp and javelin thrower Tanja Damaske . Both athletes were also successful in the adult class in the 1990s, but switched to other clubs. The most successful athlete in Schweriner SC was Jürgen Schult in the 1990s.
volleyball
At the beginning of 1957 the volleyball section in SC Traktor Schwerin was formed by taking over the volleyball section of the BSG Empor Schwerin and the BSG unit south Schwerin. Erwin Reichelt acted as head trainer, trainers were Fritz Loest, Wieland Berghoff, Hans Opitz, Harry Szymanski and Bruno Hinzmann. The first section head was Hardy Huebner. The male youth became GDR champions and FDJ cup winners. At that time Neithard Henning, Bernd Aulerich, Siegmar Gliemann, Klaus Fierke, Werner Peters, Oswald Gerstand, Horst Rickert, Egon Kaufert, Wolfgang Knoll, Hanspeter Schmill and Manfred Rohde played. The gyms at Amtsstrasse, Heinrich-Heine-Schule and Bergstrasse were used as training and competition venues .
At the beginning of the competition year 1958/59, Erich Bahner took up his coaching activity in the male area at SC Traktor in Schwerin. Since 1960, the women's and men's teams have played in the GDR major league. After the opening of the sports and congress hall in 1962, the training and competition conditions also improved for volleyball and as a performance center in the north. Under coach Fritz Loest, the male youth became GDR champions in 1963. In 1964, Gerhard Fidelak took over responsibility as a trainer for the female area, which he successfully managed for thirty years.
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The men of the SCT with coach Erich Bahner won the FDGB-Pokal (volleyball) for the first time in 1964 under floodlights in Leipzig .
The volleyball players at SC Traktor Schwerin were GDR champions in 1977 and 1988. The volleyball players under coach Gerhard Fidelak, who were GDR champions in 1976 and 1977 and from 1980 to 1984, were much more successful. In 1975 the volleyball players won the European Cup Winners 'Cup, and in 1978 the European National Champions' Cup. In the line-up, which won the silver medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, there were four players from Traktor Schwerin: Andrea Heim , Karla Roffeis , Martina Schmidt and Anke Westendorf .
Soccer
The soccer section was founded on October 21, 1956 by taking over the soccer section of the BSG unit Schwerin. The SC tractor took over the starting place of the BSG in the fourth class district league Schwerin . In its first season, the SC tractor was district champion and rose to the 2nd GDR league . In the 1959 season the sports club achieved its best placement in the 2nd GDR league with second place. In the next few years the Schwerin was always in the top third of their squadron. When after the 1962/63 season the second GDR league was dissolved, he had to relegate SC tractor despite a third place in the now third-class district league. In the 1963/64 season, the team reached second place in the Schwerin district league, after which the SC Traktor football section was connected to BSG Motor Schwerin. In the GDR soccer cup , the SC achieved its best result by advancing into the quarter-finals in 1959. The best-known players in SC Traktor football were Horst Saß and Dietmar Pfeifer . Horst Saß played for SC Traktor in 1963 and 1964. From 1969 to 1973 he was a coach at the GDR upper division Hansa Rostock . Dietmar Pfeifer began his coaching career at the Schweriner Sportclub, then worked internationally and coached the league team of FC Carl Zeiss Jena in 1983 and 1984 .
sailing
The sailors trained on Lake Schwerin. They were one of 4 (3 after the dissolution of the sailing section of ASK Rostock) sailing training bases in the GDR. The successor to the sailing section at SC Traktor Schwerin is the Schweriner Yacht Club .
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
- Gerhard Fidelak, Erich Bahner, Horst Rickert: Schwerin, 50 years of volleyball 1957–2007. Schwerin 2007.
- Ralph Kaschka: Competitive sport in the sights of the Stasi. The MfS and the SC Tractor Schwerin. Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-946572-10-7
