SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt
The SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt was a Dresden football club . The successor to the Dresdner SC became East German vice-champion in 1950 and dissolved a little later.
The club was founded in 1945 as the successor to the multiple German soccer champions Dresdner SC in 1898 , but initially retained the character of its successful predecessor with the old coat of arms, the same players and supporters. For example, the later national soccer coach and DSC player Helmut Schön continued to play for SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt. The crowds flocked back into the home stadium Ostragehege that now after an anti-fascist resistance fighters in Heinz-Steyer stadium was renamed the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt recorded already 1949/1950 again an average attendance of 28,000, more than double the league Viewers section .
Soccer
In the first season of the GDR league at all, the team set several records that were valid for at least several decades. Their average of 3.35 goals per game was surpassed only once in the history of the league: in the 1984/85 season by BFC Dynamo. The high value was mainly the result of two quick wins in Friedrichstadt: The 11-0 win against Anker Wismar on matchday five was the highest win and the 12-2 away game in Babelsberg on matchday one was the highest-scoring game of all time in the league.
Nevertheless, the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt was not the first title holder on April 16, 1950, but runner-up, when they only lost the championship lead on the last day of the game with a 1: 5 home defeat in front of 60,000 spectators against direct rivals ZSG Horch Zwickau . After the game there were serious rioting by the spectators: The Dresdeners suspected manipulation to harm the unloved civic club SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt. In fact, the game was marked by some highly controversial decisions by the referee. From a sporting point of view, however, the game was clearly in favor of the superior Zwickau, who thereby secured the title in the major league season 1949/50 .
The question of a concrete sport-political manipulation of the "scandal game" could historically not be clarified until today. What is certain, however, is that the triumph of the socialist company sports association Horch Zwickau was very much in keeping with the sports policy plan of the SED leadership. Manfred Ewald , then head of the sports department in the German Sports Committee , commented on the result as follows:
“ But we especially welcome the fact that the athletes of the large company sports community of a state-owned company have achieved this victory. [...] And that's why the provocative riots after the game will be the reason to intensify the work in the company sports associations " "
The practical consequence of this sporting policy was the dissolution and formal affiliation of the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt to the lower class VVB Tabak Dresden in May 1950. In protest against this decision, almost all remaining players left the club for the Federal Republic or West Berlin (eleven alone of them joined Hertha BSC , where they signed contracts, Helmut Schön was also there as a player-coach). The Friedrichstädter Oberliga-Platz should initially be taken over by the Tabak-Elf, for whom some of the previous players of the runner-up also played in two or three friendly matches in May 1950. After their migration to Hertha BSC, tobacco remained in the national class and the vacant place in the upper league was taken over by the SG Volkspolizei Dresden - the team that had competed in the prelude to the Plauen People's Police on the "scandal matchday".
Most of the Dresden players did not feel at home in Berlin permanently. Eight of them emigrated to Heidelberg in 1951 and joined the DSC Heidelberg , which was specially renamed there ; the letters stood for Dresdner SC . The hope of being able to compete with this team as a contract player in the 2nd League South was not fulfilled, but the following year the club was "promoted" to the Amateur League North Baden, where he skipped two divisions.
hockey
In September 1915, high school students founded a hockey department at Dresdner SC, which lived on in the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt on the stadium grounds of the Ostragehege on the Altstädtger Elbbogen. After the forced end of the SG, the 40 players in hockey joined the BSG Lokomotive in May 1950.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 18.
- ↑ New football week , e.g. B. Report from the game Empor Lauter against Tabak Dresden, mid-May 1950.