HSG Science Hall
The University Sports Association Science from Halle (Saale) was successfully represented in numerous sports across the GDR in the 1950s .
definition
The university sports associations (HSG), along with the company sports associations (BSG) and the sports associations of the Dynamo sports association (Volkspolizei) and the Vorwärts army sports association (Kasernierte Volkspolizei / Volksarmee), have hosted organized sports competitions since 1949. Every university or college in the GDR had its own HSG. As the example of Halle shows, top-class sport was successfully practiced in the HSG until the mid-1950s, and it was only with the establishment of centrally funded sports clubs that the importance of the university sports communities declined. The HSG of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg was founded on April 1, 1949 as the university sports association “Geschwister Scholl”. In the course of the founding of the sports club, it was transformed into the SC Wissenschaft Halle in February 1955. On July 1, 1958, the competitive sports sections were incorporated into the new SC Chemie Halle . A university sports community was set up again at Martin Luther University for normal student sports.
successes
The HSG and the sports club had their successes mainly in athletics, tennis, basketball, volleyball and table tennis. From 1949 to 1955 the HSG was the GDR team champion in men's tennis, the SC in 1956 with Jochen Koitzsch (decathlon) and Manfred Steinbach (200 m sprint) two GDR champions in athletics, and the SC was runner-up in basketball in 1958 Men. The volleyball women were GDR champions from 1951 to 1955 and 1957 and FDGB cup winners in 1953, 1955 and 1956 . The volleyball men became East German champions in 1951 and 1952 . The decathlete Walter Meier took sixth place at the 1956 Olympic Games and won the bronze medal at the 1958 European Athletics Championships. Both women and men played in the GDR table tennis league in 1959.
Soccer
Although the football section of the HSG Halle was particularly encouraged at the beginning, it remained less successful. Although she had become the GDR student champion in 1949 and 1950, she only showed second-rate performance in the league game. The early successes prompted the GDR sports management to develop the HSG Halle into a football focus in university sports. In 1951, the best football players from the university sports associations in Berlin, Leipzig, Jena, Rostock and Greifswald were delegated to Halle. Although not athletically qualified, the newly formed soccer team was integrated into the game operations of the second-rate GDR league . To do this, one of the two penultimate teams from the two league seasons of the 1950/51 season had to vacate the space. Motor Nordhausen-West won the elimination game held in Magdeburg 7-0 against Unity Wismar .
The HSG finished their first GDR league season as a newcomer with a respectable eighth place out of twelve teams in Season 2, ahead of last year's third and fifth unit Burg and SG Hohenschönhausen . However, the HSG was unable to develop into the desired top team in the following years. If the Halle residents remained in the lower half of the table until 1954, between 1955 and 1957, now competing as a sports club, they reached at least fourth and fifth places. With the founding of SC Chemie Halle-Leuna in 1954, whose soccer team played in the GDR league , the central funding was then largely decided in favor of the chemists.
After a new SC Chemie Halle was founded on June 30, 1958, the football section of SC Wissenschaft was delegated there and entered the second half of the 1958 season as SC Chemie Halle II, some players made it into the first team of the SC Chemie Halle. Although the team ended the season in 4th place, they had to relegate to the third-class II. DDR -Liga, since the 1st team of the SC Chemie was relegated from the league. The sports officials then made a U-turn and reintegrated the SC Chemie II soccer team into HSG Science.
Again as HSG, the team was first in season 3 of the II. League in 1959, but missed promotion in the qualifying round. After a good third place could be achieved in 1960, they were only placed last in the 1961/62 season, combined with relegation to the Halle district league . As district champion in 1963, the HSG failed again in the promotion games and after second place in the 1963/64 season, the football section of the HSG Wissenschaft Halle was dissolved and the football teams incorporated into the BSG Turbine Halle . After 14 years, the chapter on football in the HSG Halle was concluded.
League overview
| 1951-1954 | HSG Science | GDR League (second rate) |
| 1955-1958 | SC science | GDR League (second rate) |
| 1958 | SC Chemie Hall II | GDR League (second rate) |
| 1959-1962 | HSG Science | II. GDR League (third class) |
| 1962-1964 | HSG Science | District League (fourth / third class) |
people
Even if no HSG team was promoted to the highest GDR soccer league, over the years a complete team with previous or later senior league practice, including GDR champions and cup winners, went through the HSG in exchange with local rivals Turbine / Chemie Halle:
| player | HSG Science | Games / goals
for HSG |
Major league games for turbine / chemistry |
successes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goal: | ||||
| Günther Chichowitz | 1951-1952 | 18/0 | ||
| Sturm, Karl-Heinz | 1951-1953 | 8/0 | ||
| Krumpe, Dieter (also Sturm) | 1951-1954 | 45/1 | ||
| Jäsert, Joachim | 1952-1953 | 7/0 | ||
| Pomhoff | 1954-1956 | 25/0 | ||
| Trapp, Klaus-Dieter | 1954-1956 | 25/0 | ||
| Meinel. wolfgang | 1956-1958 | 40/0 | ||
| Wolfgang Knust | 1959-1960 | 17th | Cup winner 1956 | |
| Defense: | ||||
| Dornieden, Heinrich | 1951-1952 | 10/0 | ||
| Lehmann, Erich | 1951-1954 | 39/5 | ||
| Sauer, Werner | 1951-1952 | 10/0 | ||
| Trautwein, Heinz | 1952-1958 | 140/3 | ||
| Gerhard Thomas | 1952-1955 | 10 (1950-1952) | GDR champion 1952 | |
| Thomas, Gerhard | 1953-1955 | 24/2 | ||
| Rybarczyk, Heinz | 1955 | 9/0 | ||
| Hoffmann, Günter | 1955-1958 | 57/16 | 133 | Cup winner 1962 |
| Hans-Joachim Oelze | 1959-1962 | 17 (1955-1958) | Cup winner 1956, 6 junior international games |
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| Midfield: | ||||
| Ebert, Joachim (Conny) | 1951-1958 | 120/5 | ||
| Ahrens, Wolfgang | 1951-1952 | 16/6 | ||
| Steinhardt, Kurt | 1951-1952 | 6/0 | ||
| Wendt, Joachim | 1951-1958 | 121/23 | ||
| Weber, Günther | 1951-1953 | 39/2 | ||
| Meissner, Klaus-Dieter | 1951-1953 | 5/0 | ||
| Seidel, Gerhard | 1951-1955 | 20/0 | ||
| Behrendt, Rolf | 1951-1956 | 79/0 | ||
| Blüsch, Norbert | 1951-1958 | 89/18 | ||
| Schüßling, Gerhard | 1951-1955 | 28/5 | ||
| Wangemann, Gerhard | 1951-1952 | 4/0 | ||
| Biener, Norbert | 1951-1952 | 2/0 | ||
| Kabisch, Willi | 1951-1952 | 1/0 | ||
| Pohal, Fritz | 1951-1952 | 1/0 | ||
| Landmann, Gerhard | 1952-1958 | 111/2 | 31 (1958-1961) | |
| Gauert, Lothar | 1952-1953 | 23/1 | ||
| Bökelmann, Lothar | 1952-1958 | 106/32 | ||
| Landmann, Gerhard | 1952-1958 | 111/2 | ||
| Cardboard | 1952-1953 | 1/0 | ||
| Zealand, Lutz | 1953-1954 | 6/0 | ||
| Little one, Winfried | 1955-1958 | 57/1 | 43 | |
| Heart, Manfred | 1956-1958 | 46/0 | ||
| Schiffler | 1957 | 3/0 | ||
| Marzian | 1957 | 2/0 | ||
| Lonzeck | 1957 | 1/0 | ||
| Quarrel, Willi | 1959-1960 | 6 (1957) | Cup winner 1956 | |
| Attack: | ||||
| Schulz, Wolfgang | 1951-1956 | 89/19 | ||
| Franke, Walter | 1951-1957 | 74/26 | 23 | GDR champion 1952 |
| Lehmann, Karl-Heinz | 1951-1952 | 7/0 | ||
| Double wet, Hermann | 1952-1955 | 29/5 | ||
| Schwertfeger, Friedrich | 1953-1958 | 77/13 | ||
| Schüßling, Gerhard | 1951-1954 | 28/5 | ||
| Krumpe, Dieter (also Tor) | 1951-1954 | 45/1 | ||
| Schlauss, Helmut | 1952-1954 | 19/5 | ||
| Kaminski, Kurt | 1953-1955 | 18/3 | ||
| Schlauss, Helmut | 1954-1958 | 88/55 | ||
| Becker, Dieter | 1955 | 4/0 | ||
| Schmittinger, Gert | 1955-1958 | 31/11 | 40 (1959-1962) | |
| Hoffmann, Günter | 1955-1958 | 57/16 | ||
| Beam, Horst | 1955-1958 | 15/3 | 33 (1958-1961) | |
| Wetzel, Werner | 1957-1958 | 26/7 | ||
| Müller, Dieter | 1957-1962 | 32 (1953-1956) | ||
| Lehmann, Joachim | 1959-1962 | 30 (1955-1958) | Cup winner 1956 | |
| Hoffmann, Rolf | 1959 | 15th | Cup winner 1956 |