SG Dynamo Potsdam

The SG Dynamo Potsdam was a sports club of the sports association Dynamo in Potsdam . The rowing section was a competitive sports center, a performance focus in the GDR. Other sports were, for example, rugby union (cup winner 1975), chess and athletics . At the university of the Ministry for State Security in Golm there was a separate university sports group , the HSG Dynamo Potsdam with the sections football , volleyball , fishing and table tennis . The direct successor club was the Police Sports Club Potsdam (PSV). The rowers switched to the Potsdam Rowing Society . The rugby section finally moved to the Potsdam University Sports Club . The forerunner of BC Potsdam had belonged to SG Dynamo from 1968 to 1972 as a badminton section.

rowing

Olympic medalists

• At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bernd Landvoigt , Heinrich Mederow , Jörg Landvoigt and Hans-Joachim Borzym won the bronze medal in eighth place .
• At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the brothers Jörg Landvoigt and Bernd Landvoigt won the gold medal in a double without a helmsman , in a double quad with Karl-Heinz Bußert , in a double with helmsman Jutta Lau , Roswietha Reichel and Liane Weigelt and in an eighth Christiane Knetsch and Viola Goretzki each won the gold medal making the SG Dynamo one of the most successful rowing clubs.
• The two brothers Jörg Landvoigt and Bernd Landvoigt were again Olympic champions at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Bernd Krauss , Jörg Friedrich and Klaus-Dieter Ludwig in eight, Christiane Knetsch in eight with helmswoman Jutta Lau, Roswietha Reichel and Liane Buhr and Birgit Schütz . Martina Schröter won the bronze medal in a single .
• At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea won the coxed four Frank Klawonn , Bernd Eichwurzel , Bernd Niesecke , Karsten Schmeling and Hendrik Reiher , in the double sculls Birgit Peter and Martina Schröter, in the quadruple sculls Beate Schramm and Jana Sorgers and aft Ute Wild and Daniela Neunast gold. Silver medals went to the two-man with helmsman with Mario Streit , Detlef Kirchhoff and René Rensch and a bronze medal to Jens Köppen in the double-four.

rugby

In 1963, a rugby department was founded at what was then the Potsdam University of Education. This later moved to SG Dynamo Potsdam and played in the Oberliga, the top division of the GDR , where it developed into a top team. The team was runner-up six times (1971, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1987) and third twice (1978 and 1979). However, the Potsdam team never managed to win the championship. The club's greatest success was winning the cup in 1975. In the final on June 22nd in Berlin they beat BSG Stahl Leegebruch 23:11. Furthermore, the club was twice in the final for the Cup of the German Rugby Sports Association (1979 and 1987), but lost both games against BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf . During the league years a total of 27 SG Dynamo Potsdam players were appointed to the squad of the GDR national team. They came together on 175 missions.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Who was who in the GDR . Page 950. Volume 1. Links, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-364-1 .
2. ↑ Matthias Wagner: The Stasi Syndrome . edition ost published by Das Neue Berlin, 2001. ISBN 3-360-01021-3 .
3. ^ Günter Förster: The legal college of the Ministry for State Security . Studies on GDR society. LIT. ISBN 3-8258-4589-3 .
4. ^ Rugby - GDR championships . Accessed December 29, 2014.
5. ↑ Claus-Peter Bach (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Rugby Association , pp. 171f, 2000, Heidelberg.