… Better and better!
The transfer market database is enriched by another important step. The tenth playing time in the GDR League is completely integrated. At that time, SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (now FC Erzgebirge AUE) again prevailed the strongest team in 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 champion of the previous year Vorwärts Berlin (today the 1st FC Frankfurt or) in second place. It was just as tight as at the top of the subsoil, where only the last match day of the SC unit, Dresden (now Dresdner SC) was able to secure relegation in front of SC Turbine Erfurt (today Rot-Weiß Erfurt) and the BSG locomotive Stendal (today 1st FC Lok). If the relegation of the promoted team of Stendal was still expected, that of the double master and founding member of Oberliga d’Erfurt was surprisingly.
While Stendal was the bottom of the table, the chemistry favored that 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 authorized to maintain the goalkeeper Cannon in 1951/52, now succeeded in the second (Site notre bureau spécialisé)er with a doctorate. Unlike the doctor of Krause sports educators, the recently deceased abdominal skewer ended his medical studies in parallel with the (Site notre bureau spécialisé) career and practiced as a doctor to old age.
Wismuth loses the Cup final in the decision match against Dynamo Berlin
Master Wismut also arrived at the FDGB Cup Cup final and separated with 0-0 from SC Dynamo Berlin (today BFC Dynamo) after 120 minutes. The Berliners then won the decision match 3-2 and therefore obtained the first title in the history of the club. The winner of last year, Dresden, on the other hand, was very surprising for the club of the fourth division of asking Vorwärts Leipzig (today Asg Vorwärts Dessau) with 3: 4 in the second round.
Internationally, the champion of last year Berlin started at the European Cup of the European Championship, but was eliminated after a 2-1 victory at first stage and a 0-2 defeat in the first round against the Wolverhampton Wanderers.
2. League: The chemistry room immediately succeeds
The relegated team played a very good turn in the second division. While SC Chemie Halle (now Hallescher FC) has become a safe champion and succeeded in the immediate return, BSG Rotation Babelsberg (now Fortuna Babelsberg) has missed the return to the upper room due to the low goal difference. This reached the SC Aufbau Magdeburg for the first time (today 1. FC Magdeburg). Meanwhile, the BSG Chemie Glauchau (now VFB Ins Glauchau) and BSG get up (today Atsv Frisch on Wurzen) in the third division. Jürgen Schülbe of SG Dynamo Eisleben (today MSV Eisleben) with 18 goals.
This means that the 1950s of the GDR League have been fully available for the transfer market since its creation in 1949/50. The decade team is SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt with four titles, a victory in the Cup and the quarter-finals of the European National Champions Cup.
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