… better and better!
The transfer market database is enriched by another milestone. The tenth playing time of the GDR league is completely integrated. At that time, SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (now FC Erzgebirge Aue) prevailed again the strongest team of the decade and celebrated the fourth title after 1955, 1956 and 1957.
In an exciting title fight, the team of coach Gerhard Hofmann referred the previous year’s champion Vorwärts Berlin (today 1st FC Frankfurt or) to second place. It was just as tight as at the top in the basement, where only on the last match day of the SC unit Dresden (now Dresdner SC) was able to secure the relegation in front of SC Turbine Erfurt (today Rot-Weiß Erfurt) and the BSG locomotive Stendal (today 1st FC Lok Stendal). If the relegation of the promoted team from Stendal was still expected, that of the two-time master and Oberliga founding member from Erfurt was surprisingly.
While Stendal was the bottom of the table, surprise promoted chemistry Zeitz (today 1st FC Zeitz) was able to add the second surprise with relegation and tenth place. The top scorer Dr. Bernd Bauchie with 19 goals. Curious: after Dr. Rudolf Krause, who was allowed to hold up the goalkeeper cannon in 1951/52, now succeeded in the second footballer with a doctorate. In contrast to the doctor of sports educators Krause, the recently deceased abdominal skewer completed his medical studies in parallel to the football career and practiced as a doctor until old age.
Wismuth loses cup final in the decision game against Dynamo Berlin
Master Wismut also came to the Cup final of the FDGB Cup and separated with 0-0 from SC Dynamo Berlin (today BFC Dynamo) after 120 minutes. The Berliners then won the decision -making game 3-2 and thus secured the first title of club history. Last year’s winner Dresden, on the other hand, was very surprising to the fourth division club ASK Vorwärts Leipzig (today ASG Vorwärts Dessau) with 3: 4 in round two.
Internationally, the last year’s champion Berlin started in the European Championship European Cup, but was eliminated after a 2-1 first leg victory and a 0-2 away defeat in the first round against the Wolverhampton Wanderers.
2. League: Chemistry Hall succeeds immediately
The relegated team played a very good round in the second division. While SC Chemie Halle (now Hallescher FC) became safe champions and managed the immediate return, BSG Rotation Babelsberg (now Fortuna Babelsberg) only missed the return to the upper house due to the poorer goal difference. This reached the SC Aufbau Magdeburg for the first time (today 1. FC Magdeburg). Meanwhile, the BSG Chemie Glauchau (now VfB Empor Glauchau) and BSG stand up (today ATSV Frisch on Wurzen) into the third division. Jürgen Schülbe from SG Dynamo Eisleben (today MSV Eisleben) with 18 goals.
This means that the GDR league’s 1950s have been fully available for the transfer market since it was founded in 1949/50. The team of the decade is SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt with four titles, a cup victory and the quarter-finals in the European Cup of the national champions.
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