The 1959 DDR-Oberliga was the eleventh 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

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. Rather than in the traditional autumn-spring format the Oberliga played for six seasons from 1955 to 1960 in the calendar year format, modelled on the system used in the

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. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format. The league was contested by fourteen teams.

SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt Fußball Club Erzgebirge Aue e.V., commonly known as simply FC Erzgebirge Aue or Erzgebirge Aue (), is a German football club based in Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony. The former East German side was a founding member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, ...

, incidentally based at

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and not

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, won the championship, the club's last of three national East German championships. On the strength of the 1959 title Wismut qualified for the

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where the club was knocked out by SK Rapid Wien in the first round. League runners-up ASK Vorwärts Berlin qualified for the

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instead of FDGB-Pokal winner

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and was knocked out by

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in the preliminary round.

Bernd Bauchspieß Bernd Bauchspieß (born 10 October 1939) is a former East German football player. He played 264 matches in the East German top division and scored 120 goals. Only 8 players scored more in the history of the Oberliga. Bauchspieß won one cap ...

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was the league's top scorer with 18 goals.

Table

The 1959 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Lokomotive Stendal and

Results

References

Sources

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Ddr-Oberliga 1959 1959 domestic association football leagues

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