SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen was an
East German sports community from
Berlin, affiliated to
SV Dynamo. The sport community offered a wide range of sports. Its football departement was active from 1953 and until 1966.
Football
History
SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen was founded as SG Dynamo Berlin on 29 March 1953.
It was the first club to bear the name "Dynamo Berlin". Its football team entered into the second-tier
DDR-Liga in the 1952–53 season, after taking over the place in the league of
SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam.
SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin
The history of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen originally begins with sports community SG Volkspolizei Berlin. SG Volkspolizei Berlin was founded in East Berlin in 1948.
It was one of many sports communities of the
Volkspolizei around East Germany. The head of the Volkspolizei
Kurt Fischer Kurt Fischer is the name of:
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announced the founding of the central
sports association SV Deutsche Volkspolizei on 20 June 1950. SG Volkspolizei Berlin was then incorporated into the new sports association and renamed SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin. SV Deusche Volkspoliziei Berlin had departments in several sports, including football,
ice-hockey and boxing.
The football team of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin finished the 1951–52 Landesklasse Berlin on second place behind Adlershofer BC and narrowly missed promotion to the second tier DDR-Liga. Sports association SV Deutsche Volkpolizei decided to relocate its three second-tier teams SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam, SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Weimar and SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin to lager cities. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was relocated to Berlin, SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Weimar to
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in ...
and SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin to
Rostock. The entire football department of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was relocated to East Berlin and merged with SV Deutsche Volkspoliei Berlin during the summer of 1952. The former team of SV Deusche Volkspolizei Potsdam became the new first team of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin thus took over the place of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam in the 1952-53 DDR-Liga (
de).
SG Dynamo Berlin
The sports association SV Deutsche Volkspolizei became sports association
SV Dynamo on 27 March 1953. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin was then incorporated into SV Dynamo and reformed as SG Dynamo Berlin on 29 March 1953.
SG Dynamo Berlin finished the 1953–54 DDR-Liga Staffel I (
de) on 14th place and was relegated to the third tier Bezirksliga Berlin.
SG Dynamo Berlin-Mitte
Sports club SC Dynamo Berlin was founded on 1 October 1954. The team of
SG Dynamo Dresden and its place in 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 ...
was then transferred SC Dynamo Berlin. The team played its first match as SC Dynamo Berlin against BSG Rotation Babelsberg in the DDR-Oberliga on 21 November 1954. The sports community SG Dynamo Berlin was renamed SG Dynamo Berlin-Mitte after the founding of SC Dynamo Berlin. The team of SG Dynamo Berlin-Mitte became a reserve team of SC Dynamo Berlin in 1956 and played as SC Dynamo Berlin 1b in the 1956 Bezirksliga Berlin. The team won promotion to the third tier
II. DDR-Liga
The II. DDR-Liga (English: ''2nd East German League'' or ''2nd GDR-League'') was, from 1955 to 1963, the third level of football competition in the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR; commonly East Germany).
Ov ...
after the 1956 season.
SC Dynamo Berlin 1b was then joined with the new sports community SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen on 1 January 1957.
SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen

SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen was formed from a merger of sports communities SG Dynamo Berlin-Mitte, SG Dynamo Berlin-Ost and SG Dynamo Berlin-Nordost in 1957. SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen would offer a wide range of sports, such as football,
speed skating,
judo,
athletics,
gymnastics wrestling and
swimming.
SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen won promotion back to the
DDR-Liga in 1959 and stabilized in the second tier. The team was relegated another time after the 1965–66 season, but immediately bounced back. While SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen was formally an independent sports community, it was in practice a feeder club to sports club SC Dynamo Berlin. The club regularity featured promising young players of SC Dynamo Berlin, as well as retiring veterans of SC Dynamo Berlin such as
Herbert Schoen, Harry Nippert,
Herbert Maschke
Herbert Maschke (2 September 1930 – 13 June 2000) was a German footballer.
Club career
Maschke played for SG Dynamo Dresden and after its move to the East German capital for SC Dynamo Berlin between 1952/53 and 1962/63 in the East G ...
, Joachim Hall, Christian Hofmann and Klaus Thiemann.
The football department of SC Dynamo Berlin was reorganized as
football club
A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all- ...
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 ...
in 1966. This also meant the end of the football department of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen. The football department of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen was disbanded after the 1965–66 season. The players of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen joined the reserve team of BFC Dynamo, the BFC Dynamo II. The place of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen in 1966–67 Bezirksliga Berlin was taken over by BFC Dynamo II.
Seasons
Ice hockey
History
SG Dynamo Berlin had an ice hockey department until 1954. The ice hockey department originally began as an ice hockey department of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin.
SV Deutsche Volkpolizei Berlin
The ice hockey department of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin was created in 1950 and made its debut in a friendly match against BSG Einheit Berliner Bär in the
Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle
Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle was an indoor sporting arena located in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, Germany. It was named after the executed Berlin resistance fighter Werner Seelenbinder, a German wrestling champion at several European c ...
on 9 June 1951.
SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin managed to win the Berlin championship the same year and qualified for the promotion round for the
1951-52 DDR-Oberliga. The qualification round was cancelled due to lack of participation from other teams, and SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin was thus promoted to the DDR-Oberliga. However, its stay in the DDR-Oberliga was to be short and the team was relegated after only one season.
SG Dynamo Berlin
SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin was reformed as SG Dynamo Berlin after the founding of SV Dynamo on 27 March 1953.
The team immediately qualified for a new promotion round for the DDR-Oberliga after an unbeaten 1952–53 season. SG Dynamo Berlin won the promotion round and thus had the right to participate in the
1953–54 DDR-Oberliga
The 1953–54 DDR-Oberliga was the fifth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fifteen teams, two less than in the previous season, and BSG Turbine Erfurt won the championsh ...
. However, its participation in the 1953-54 DDR-Oberliga was prevents as sports authorities decided that the team was going to be merged with competitor BSG Chemie Weißwasser to form
SG Dynamo Weißwasser. The best players of SG Dynamo Berlin, such as Hans Frenzel and Wolfgang Nickel, was thus delegated to SG Dynamo Weißwasser. The players that were not delegated to SG Dynamo Weißwasser continued to play under their old name, but had to start over in the Bezirksliga. The ice hockey department of sports community SG Dynamo Berlin then became the ice hockey department of sports club
SC Dynamo Berlin in 1954.
Explanatory notes
References
Literature
*''Dynamo Hohenschönhausen'' in:
Hardy Grüne (2001):
Vereinslexikon. Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs. Band 7. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag, S. 229
*''Dynamo Hohenschönhausen'' in:
Hanns Leske (2007): Enzyklopädie des DDR-Fußballs. Verlag Die Werkstatt, S. 185
Notes
External links
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