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

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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

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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 BSG Chemie Zietz * 1961 BSG Lokomotive Rangsdorf * 1962 BSG Fortschritt Weissenfels * 1963 BSG Fortschritt Weissenfels * 1964 BSG Fortschritt Weissenfels * 1965 SC Leipzig * 1966 SC Empor Rostock * 1967 SC Empor Rostock * 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

* 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 of ...

* 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, winning both the GDR Championship and GDR Pokal on seven occasions and the European Club Championship ...

* 1990

* 1991 SC Leipzig

References

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List of champions

See also

References