The Women's Handball DDR-Oberliga was the highest category in the championship for women's

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. Founded in 1951, 41 editions took place before the competition was disestablished in 1991 following the

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. SC Leipzig was the championship's most successful with fifteen championships between 1953 and 1991, followed by Fortschritt Weissenfels and Vorwärts Frankfurt with six, TSC Berlin with four and Empor Rostock with three. The leading teams in the DDR-Oberliga were successful in international competitions. SC Leipzig won two European Cups and one

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, TSC Berlin also won the European Cup and two Cup Winners' Cups and Vorwärts Frankfurt clinched two EHF Cups, while Empor Rostock and SC Magdeburg also played European finals.List of finals of the EHF competitions
in the-sports.org Leipzig would later become one of the leading teams of the

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, with six championships between 1998 and 2010.

List of champions

* 1951 BSG KWU Weimar * 1952 SC Berlin Weissensee * 1953 Rotation Leipzig-Mitte * 1954 BSG Einheit Weimar * 1955 SC Fortschritt Weissenfels * 1956 BSG Lokomotive Rangsdorf * 1957 BSG Lokomotive Leipzig * 1958 SC Fortschritt Weissenfels * 1959 SC Fortschritt Weissenfels * 1960

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* 1961 BSG Lokomotive Rangsdorf * 1962

BSG Fortschritt Weissenfels BSG may refer to: Places * Bata Airport (IATA airport code: BSG), the second largest airport in Equatorial Guinea * Besitang station (rail station code BSG), North Sumatra, Sumatra Island, Indonesia; see List of railway stations in Indonesia * B ...

* 1963

* 1964

* 1965 SC Leipzig * 1966

SC Empor Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

* 1967

* 1968 SC Leipzig * 1969 SC Leipzig * 1970 SC Leipzig * 1971 SC Leipzig * 1972 SC Leipzig * 1973 SC Leipzig * 1974 TSC Berlin * 1975 SC Leipzig * 1976 SC Leipzig * 1977 TSC Berlin * 1978 SC Leipzig * 1979 TSC Berlin * 1980 TSC Berlin * 1981 SC Magdeburg * 1982

ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt Frankfurter Handball Club is a German women's handball from Frankfurt (Oder). History During the communist era Frankfurter HC was the handball section of military sports club ASK Vorwärts, installed in Frankfurt since 1971. Vorwärts was one ...

* 1983

* 1984 SC Leipzig * 1985

* 1986

* 1987

* 1988 SC Leipzig * 1989

HC Empor Rostock HC Empor Rostock is a team handball club from Rostock, Germany. Empor Rostock was one of the most successful team handball clubs of the GDR. Crest, colours, supporters Kits Current squad Honours Men * 10x Champion ** Indoor Handball: 195 ...

* 1990

* 1991 SC Leipzig

References

{{EHF women's leagues East Handball competitions in East Germany Sports leagues established in 1951 1951 establishments in East Germany Recurring events disestablished in 1991 1991 disestablishments in Germany Handball competitions in Germany Women's handball in Germany