The 1952–53 DDR-Oberliga was the fourth season of the
DDR-Oberliga
The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany.
Overview
Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the occupied eastern ...
, the first tier of
league football in
East Germany.
The league was contested by seventeen teams, two less than in the previous season, and
Dynamo Dresden won the championship after winning a necessary decider against
BSG Wismut Aue 3–2 after extra time. It was the first of eight national championships for Dynamo but it would have to wait until 1970–71 to win its second one.
Harry Arlt
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of
BSG Rotation Dresden
Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund) in 1900. Th ...
was the league's top scorer with 26 goals.
Two clubs were renamed during the season, both in April 1953. SG Volkspolizei Dresden became SG Dynamo Dresden and SG Motor Gera was renamed to BSG Wismut Gera.
SV Vorwärts der HVA Leipzig was first renamed SV Vorwärts der KVP Leipzig. The football team was then relocated to the East Berlin on 12 April 1953, where it continued as
SV Vorwärts der KVP Berlin. Before the season SG Union Oberschöneweide had been renamed to BSG Motor Oberschöneweide, with both clubs relegated at the end of season, leaving East German capital without an Oberliga club for the following season.
The 1952–53 season saw two of the most successful clubs in the East German championship adopt the name and location they would later be most successful under, police club SG Dynamo Dresden with eight and army club ''Vorwärts Berlin'' with six titles, second and third only to
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 Berli ...
.
Table
The 1952–53 season saw two newly promoted clubs,
BSG Empor Lauter and
BSG Motor Jena.
SV Vorwärts der KVP Leipzig was relocated to
East Berlin
East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...
during the season and continued as
SV Vorwärts der KVP Berlin.
* Championship decider: Dynamo Dresden – BSG Wismut Aue 3–2 aet
Results
References
Sources
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External links
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables
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1952-53
Ober
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Surname
* Bailey Ober (born ...
1952–53 in East German football