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Dresdner SC
Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport List of football clubs in Germany, club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a Founding Clubs of the DFB, founding member of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund) in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side ''Dresden English Football Club'' formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: ''Dresdener SC'' was organized by one-time German members of the ''EFC''. History On 30 April 1898, former members of the Dresden English Football Club and of the Neue Dresdner FC (founded in 1893 by former DEFC members and now SpVgg Dresden-Löbtau 1893) founded the Dresdner Sport-Club. Until sports historian Andreas Wittner uncovered the earlier history of the DFC, it was thought to have been founded only in 1890. Early on, ''DSC'' made regular appearances i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz-Steyer-Stadion
The Heinz-Steyer-Stadion, in Dresden, Germany, is an association football, American football and athletics stadium currently used by the Dresdner SC and the Dresden Monarchs. It has a capacity of about 30,000 but is currently restricted to about 5,000 for football matches (although it had attendances of more than 50,000 people in the 1930s). It was also the first stadium of Dynamo Dresden. It was the venue for Dynamo's first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup match, against Rangers. Clubs that use the stadium *Dresden Monarchs (American football), playing in the German Football League *Dresdner SC (football and athletics) * Dresden Cavaliers (American football) in FFL International Association football matches International American football matches National teams The 2015 edition of the European Junior Championship of American football had its "final four" round held at Heinz Steyer Stadion. Club teams While the Dresden Monarchs The Dresden Monarchs are an American football t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha BSC
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. Hertha BSC was founded in 1892, and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. The team won the German championship in 1930 and 1931. Since 1963, Hertha's stadium has been the Olympiastadion. The club is known as ''Die Alte Dame'' in German, which translates to "The Old Lady". In 2002, the sports activities of the professional, amateur, and under-19 teams were separated into ''Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA''. History Early years The club was formed in 1892 as ''BFC Hertha 92'', taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regionalliga
The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the fourth tier. While all of the clubs in the top three divisions of German football are professional, the Regionalliga has a mixture of professional and semi-professional clubs. History of the Regionalligas 1963–1974 From the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974, there were five Regionalligas, forming the second tier of German Football: *Regionalliga Nord, ''(covering the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg)'' *Regionalliga West, ''(covering the state of North Rhine-Westphalia)'' *Regionalliga Berlin, ''(covering West Berlin)'' *Regionalliga Südwest, ''(covering the states of Rheinland-Palatinate and Saarland)'' * Regionalliga Süd, ''(covering the states of Bava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Fußball-Bundesliga
The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below the Bundesliga and above the 3. Liga in the German football league system. All of the 2. Bundesliga clubs qualify for the DFB-Pokal, the annual German Cup competition. A total of 127 clubs have competed in the 2. Bundesliga since its foundation. The decision to establish the league as the second level of football in West Germany was made in May 1973. The league started operating in August 1974, then with two divisions of 20 clubs. It was reduced to a single division in 1981. From the 1991–92 season onwards clubs from former East Germany started participating in the league, briefly expanding it to two divisions again. It returned to a single division format again at the end of that season and has had 18 clubs as its strength since 1994. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Re-unification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the German Reunification Treaty entered into force dissolving the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: link=no, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR, or East Germany) and integrating its recently re-established constituent federated states into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: link=no, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD, or West Germany) to form present-day Germany, has been chosen as the customary ''German Unity Day'' () and has thereafter been celebrated each year from 1991 as a national holiday. East and West Berlin were united into a single city and eventually became the capital of reunited Germany. The East Germany's government led by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (a communist party) started to falter on 2 May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Modrow
Hans Modrow (; born 27 January 1928) is a German politician best known as the last communist premier of East Germany. Taking office in the middle of the Peaceful Revolution, he was the ''de facto'' leader of the country for much of the winter of 1989 and 1990. He was a transitional figure, paving the way to the first and only free elections in East Germany and including many opposition politicians in his cabinet. He had previously been a collaborator in the communist regime, even downplaying its role in the deaths at the Berlin Wall, and attempted to delay German reunification. After the end of Communist rule and reunification of Germany, he was convicted of electoral fraud and perjury by the Dresden District Court in 1995, on the basis that he had been the SED official nominally in charge of the electoral process. He was later convicted of abuse of office and was given a nine month suspended sentence. One of the few high-ranking former SED officials to not have been expelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Club (East Germany)
Football club (german: Fußballclub) (FC) was a designation for a specially promoted club for elite football in East Germany. The football clubs were formed during the winter break 1965-1966 as centers of excellence in East German football. The football clubs enjoyed considerable advantages over other sports communities in East German football. In addition to the ten designated football clubs, SG Dynamo Dresden was also promoted in a similar way to the dedicated football clubs from 1968. General The football departments of the sports clubs (german: Sportclub) (SC) had dominated the DDR-Oberliga since the introductions of the sports club system in the mid-1950s. Football was then given a special position in East German sports after a decision by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) on 18 August 1965. The decision evisioned the formation of dedicated football clubs. Ten football departments were then separated from their sports clubs and re-orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFC Dynamo
Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berlin. BFC Dynamo was founded in 1966 from the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin and became one of the most successful clubs in East German football. The club is the record champion of East Germany with ten consecutive league championships from 1979 through 1988. BFC Dynamo competes in the fourth tier Regionalliga Nordost. The club enjoys a cross-city rivalry with 1. FC Union Berlin and a historical rivalry with SG Dynamo Dresden. The rivalry with Union Berlin is part of the Berlin derby. History Colours and crest The traditional colours of BFC Dynamo are claret and white. The colours were inherited from SC Dynamo Berlin and followed the claret colour scheme of SV Dynamo. BFC Dynamo has been playing in claret and white since its found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SG Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, are a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. . They were founded on 12 April 1953 as a club affiliated with the East German police and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles. After the reunification of Germany, Dynamo played four seasons in the top division Bundesliga from 1991 to 1995, but have since drifted between the second and fourth tiers. The club were relegated from the 2. Bundesliga to the 3. Liga at the end of the 2019–20 season, but earned immediate promotion back to the 2. Bundesliga by winning the 2020–21 3. Liga. Although the club's badge is predominantly red, they use gold and black as their home colours, derived from the official city flag and coat of arms of the city of Dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SG Volkspolizei Potsdam
SG Volkspolizei Potsdam, also known as SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was an East German sports community based in Potsdam, Bezirk Potsdam (present day Brandenburg). The club was founded in 1948 and its football department existed until 1952. Like other sports communities associated with the Volkspolizei, it was incorporated into SV Dynamo in 1953. The club was reformed as SG Dynamo Potsdam. Football department History SG Volkspolizei Potsdam was founded in 1948 as a sports community for the Volkspolizei. The football team began play in the Landesklasse Brandenburg in 1948, which at the time represented the firt tier of the East German football league system. It became one of the founding members of the second tier DDR-Liga in 1950. SG Volkspolizei Potsdam was incorporated into the new sports association SV Deutsche Volkspolizei in 1950 and renamed SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam finished the inaugural 1950-51 DDR-Liga season as tied champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagema
Nagema was a manufacturing association of state-owned enterprises (VVB) and later a combine in East Germany. It was formed in 1948 as the legal successor to the ''Gäbel Maschinen-Fabrik Dresden-Mockritz'' and ceased to exist in 1990. It had 21,000 employees as of 31 December 1989 and produced a variety of packaging machines for the food industry. From the 1970s, Nagema (as a combine) also consisted of many subsidiary companies unrelated to food packaging, one of which, ''Wägetechnik Rapido Radebeul'', assisted VEB Robotron in manufacturing Robotron 400 ATM machines for the East German Sparkassen as well as the Staatsbank der DDR in the early-1980s, which were among the first ATM machines to be introduced in East Germany. See also * Theegarten-Pactec Theegarten-Pactec is a German manufacturer in the packaging technology sector. The company develops and produces packaging machines and complete packaging systems for bite-sized confectionery products and other foodstuffs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peaceful Revolution
The Peaceful Revolution (german: Friedliche Revolution), as a part of the Revolutions of 1989, was the process of sociopolitical change that led to the opening of East Germany's borders with the West, the end of the ruling of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (communist regime) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or "East Germany") in 1989 and the transition to a parliamentary democracy, which later enabled the reunification of Germany in October 1990. This happened through non-violent initiatives and demonstrations. This period of change is referred to in German as ' (, "the turning point"). These events were closely linked to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to abandon Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe as well as the reformist movements that spread through Eastern Bloc countries. In addition to the Soviet Union's shift in foreign policy, the GDR's lack of competitiveness in the global market, as well as its sharply rising national debt, hastened the des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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