SC Turbine Erfurt
The SC Turbine Erfurt was a sports club in Erfurt . It was created in November 1954 from the BSG Turbine Erfurt . The SC Turbine Erfurt was designed as a sports club from the outset as a club for competitive sports. From the 1960s to the end of the GDR , the club's athletes were world-class in several sports. In 1990 the club was transferred to TSV Erfurt .
Sections
Soccer
Main article: FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
Under the name BSG KWU Erfurt , the footballers were among the founding members of the GDR Oberliga in 1949 , with second place they achieved a podium place for the first time the following year as BSG Turbine Erfurt . In addition, the Thuringians were already in the final of the FDGB Cup in the 1949/50 season , but had to admit defeat to BSG Eisenhüttenwerk Thale 4-0. In the 1953/54 season , Erfurt won their greatest success to date by winning the GDR championship title.
In the following season 1954/55 the footballers - from November 1954 section of the newly formed SC Turbine Erfurt - were able to successfully defend their title and also reached the semi-finals in the FDGB Cup . In the following years, the Turbine footballers increasingly lost their sporting connection in GDR football and had to relegate to the second division for one year in both 1959 and 1963/64 . At least in the FDGB Cup, the Erfurt team made it to the semi-finals two more times ( 1956 , 1959 ). On January 26, 1966 - just before the start of the second half of the 1965/66 season - the football section was spun off from SC Turbine and formed into the independent football club FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt .
athletics
The athletics department of the SC Turbine Erfurt provided numerous Olympic and European champions. In 1961 the runners Siegfried Herrmann and Klaus Richtzenhain switched to SC Turbine, and formed a joint training group with Manfred Matuschewski and Jürgen May . In the 1960s, the club then also won numerous GDR championships in team ratings. The SC Turbine Erfurt won the team championship in the forest run in 1964 on the long distance and in 1965 on the middle distance. From 1961, the runners won the title four times in the 3-by-1000-meter relay, with Matuschewski and Herrmann participating in all successes. After the championship routes were changed, the SC Turbine relays won the 4 x 800 meter relay in 1967, 1968 and 1970; Dieter Fromm was also involved in this alongside Matuschewski .
In the 1970s, the all-rounders shaped the image of the SC Turbine. At the 1976 Olympic Games , Sigrun Siegl and Christine Laser won gold and silver in the pentathlon . Johanna Schaller (later Johanna Klier) won gold in the hurdles over 100 m hurdles . Wolfgang Hoppe was also a multi-fighter from Erfurt , who then started out as one of the most successful bobsleigh drivers for the ASK Vorwärts Oberhof .
At the 1980 Olympic Games , two athletes from SC Turbine Erfurt won Olympic gold: hurdler Volker Beck and walker Hartwig Gauder . Hurdler Johanna Klier won the silver medal. In the 1980s, the female sprinters ran from SC Turbine to the top of the world. In 1979, 1982, 1985 and 1988 the Erfurt team won the GDR championship in the 4 x 400 meter relay. Sabine Busch , Hildegard Körner and Dagmar Neubauer in particular were involved in these titles. Neubauer and Busch won the bronze medal with the East German relay at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul .
Cycling
In addition to football and athletics , the cycling department also existed from the start. Successful athletes were the Olympic and world champions Mario Kummer and Maik Landsmann as well as the five-time world champion Detlef Macha . Wolfgang Gansert was a member of the cycling department of SC Turbine Erfurt from 1970. The department continues to this day as RSC Turbine Erfurt .
swim
The sport club's outstanding swimmer was the back swimmer Roland Matthes . The double Olympic champion in both 1968 and 1972 won 38 GDR championship titles and was elected Sportsman of the Year in the GDR seven times . Roland Matthes trained with Marlies Grohe (1940–1990).
With Ina Kleber and Birte Weigang , two world class swimmers competed for the SC Turbine, both of whom, like Matthes, specialized in the supine position.
GDR doping
Like other sports clubs in the GDR , the SC Turbine Erfurt was involved in the systematic doping of the GDR competitive sports system . Former athletes are still struggling with the health consequences of doping consumption ( Birte Weigang ; Cornelia Sirch ; Torsten Karl ; Uwe Trömer ). In 2010 the athlete Gesine Walther had her name deleted from the record lists because her achievements were achieved with the help of doping. The former coach of the SC Turbine Erfurt and then DESG - Germany coach Stephan Gneupel 2004 accepted a fine in the amount of € 4500 for attempted process fraud, after he had assured six years under oath that he had never doped his supervised GDR era athletes.
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
- Dieter Huhn, Wolfram Rosenow: Athletics. GDR championships outdoors from 1948 to 1990 and indoors from 1964 to 1990 . Berlin 1994
Web links
- Short profile of the association on the Erfurt web ( memento from September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Association history Rot-Weiß Erfurt ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Volker Kluge, page 258
- ↑ Udo Scheer: Take that, it's good for you. Ines Geipel charges: Doping in the GDR In: Die Welt . Issued September 1, 2001
- ↑ Ex-swimmer Torsten Karl passed away . www.sportgericht.de. April 28, 2003. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- ↑ Doping victim Uwe Trömer 'The perpetrators get pats' . faz.net. May 18, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- ↑ Former GDR sprinter breaks records . spiegel-online.de. January 13, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- ↑ 4500 euro fine for national coach Stephan Gneupel . www.sportgericht.de. May 3, 2004. Accessed on February 19, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
