SG Volkspolizei Potsdam

SG Volkspolizei Potsdam, also known as SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam, or SG der DVP Potsdam, was an East German sports club based in Potsdam, Bezirk Potsdam (present day Brandenburg). The club was founded in 1948 and its football department existed until 1952. Like other sports clubs affiliated with the Volkspolizei, it was incorporated into the SV Dynamo in 1953, and would be reformed as SG Dynamo Potsdam.

SG Volkspolizei Potsdam
Full nameSportgemeinschaft Volkspolizei Potsdam
Founded1948
DissolvedUnknown
GroundErnst-Thälmann-Stadion
Capacity15,000
Affiliated toSV Deutsche Volkspolizei
LeagueDDR-Liga
1951-527th

Football department

History

The SG Volkspolizei Potsdam was founded in 1948 as a sports club for the Volkspolizei, the East German People's Police. It was part of the Sports Association Sportvereinigung Deutsche Volkspolizei, the SV Deutsche Volkspolizei.

The football team began to play in the Landesklasse Brandenburg in 1948, which at the time represented the top level of the East German football league system. It became one of the founding members of the second tier DDR-Liga in 1950.

SG Volkspolizei Potsdam finished the inaugural 1950-51 DDR-Liga season as tied champions, but lost the deciding match and the qualification for the DDR-Oberliga against the tied team BSG Anker Wismar by 1–2. SG Volkspolizei Potsdam player Gerhard Hänsicke became the top scorer of the 1950-51 DDR-Liga season with 18 goals.

The team was severely weakened by player delegations and finished the 1951-52 season on seventh place.[1] Five players had been delegated to Dresden in 1950, to help form the nucleus of SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.[2][3] Among the players delegated to Dresden were Herbert Schoen, Johannes Matzen and Günter Schröter.[4][5][6][nb 1] All three would later become successful players in Dynamo Dresden and play internationally for the East Germany national football team. The SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden was formed as an ideologically acceptable side in replacement of SG Friedrichstadt.[2] SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden would later be known as Dynamo Dresden.

Subsequently, the team of SG Volkpolizei Potsdam was relocated to Berlin and its spot in the 1952-53 DDR-Liga would later be taken over by SG Dynamo Berlin. The Sports association SV Deutsche Volkspolizei was incorporated in SV Dynamo in March 1953, and the sports club itself would continue as SG Dynamo Potsdam, with departments in various sports, such as rowing, rugby, chess and athletics. Its department in rowing would become a designated center of excellence, which came to foster several Olympic gold medalists, such as Jörg Landvoigt and Bernd Landvoigt.

Some sources suggest that the team of SG Volkspolizei Potsdam was absorbed by SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin and that its spot in the 1952-53 DDR-Liga was initially taken over by SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin, which was allegedly reformed into SG Dynamo Berlin in the beginning of 1953.[7][8][nb 2]

Stadium

The home ground of SG Volkspolizei Potsdam was the Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion in central Potsdam. The stadium was built in 1948-1949 and named after communist leader Ernst Thälmann, who was executed in Buchenwald in 1944.

The stadium was build on the grounds of the Lustgarten, next to the adjoining Potsdam City Palance. The Lustgarten had been heavily damaged by air raids in World War II. The construction was carried out by members of the Volkspolizei, members of SG Volkspolizei Potsdam and volunteers. War debris from Potsdam was partially used for the building of the ramparts. The stadium had bleachers, a covered grandstand, technical facilities, a grass court and a 400 m cinder track. The stadium was the first major sports facility built in Germany after World war II.[9][10][11]

The Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion would later be used by SG Dynamo Potsdam and BSG Turbine Potsdam, and was the home ground of Potsdamer Kickers in the 1990s.[9] The stadium was demolished in 1999, and the Lustgarten was rebuilt in 2001 in accordance with its historical shape.

Seasons
Year League Level Position Goal difference Points
1948-49 Landesklasse Brandenburg Staffeln West I 2nd 72:42 24:12
1949-50 Landesklasse Brandenburg II 3rd 73:30 36:13
1950-51 DDR-Liga Staffel Nord II 2nd 55:23 28:8
1951-52 DDR-Liga Staffeln 1 II 7th 36:33 24:20
  • The Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion in 1958.

Notes
  1. The 40 best players of the Volkspolizei teams were brought together for a training session in Forst in July 1950, in order to put together the team of SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden. Coaches Fritz Sack and Paul Döring picked 17 players from 11 different cities to form the team.[4][3]
  2. SG Dynamo Berlin was later renamed SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen, and joined with BFC Dynamo in 1966, as the reserve team BCF Dynamo II. As such, both SG Volkspolizei Potsdam and SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin could possibly be consisered partially predecessor sides to BFC Dynamo. SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin was founded in 1949.
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References
  1. Grüne, Hardy (1 June 2020). "Der angefeindete Serienmeister des Ostens". Fußball-Woche (de) (in German). Berlin: Fußball-Woche Verlags GmbH. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. Mike, Dennis; Grix, Jonathan (2012). Sport under Communism – Behind the East German 'Miracle' (1st ed.). Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (Macmillan Publishers Limited). p. 136. ISBN 978-0-230-22784-2.
  3. Hesse-Lichtenberger, Ulrich (2003). Tor!: The Story of German Football (3rd ed.). London: WSC Books Ltd. p. 226. ISBN 095401345X.
  4. "Dynamo Dresden - Gestern und Heute". dynamo-dresden.de (in German). Dresden: SG Dynamo Dresden e.V. n.d. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  5. "Die Geschichte Dynamo Dresdens". 3-liga.com (in German). Lübeck: Niels-Frederik Popien. 29 June 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  6. "Dynamo Dresden". fussball.com (in German). Gżira: Catena Operations Ltd. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  7. Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7: Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.
  8. "Sportgemeinschaften Deutsche Volkspolizei". ddr-sport-wappen-archiv.de (in German). Berlin: Karsten Lenz. n.d. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  9. Sittig, Lars (2 April 2019). "Ende einer Arena". Märkische Allgemeine (in German). Hannover: Madsack GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  10. "Bau des Ernst-Thälmann-Stadions". brandenburg.museum-digital.de (in German). Potsdam: Potsdam Museum – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte (Landeshauptstadt Potsdam). 30 September 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  11. Haselbauer, Torsten (1 December 2014). "Altes, neues Stadion". Die Tageszeitung (in German). Berlin: taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH. Retrieved 21 June 2019.

Further reading
  • Grüne, Hardy: Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7: Vereinslexikon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9. Volkspolizei Potsdam, p. 376.
  • Leske, Hanns: Enzyklopädie des DDR-Fußballs. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3. Volkspolizei Potsdam, p. 400.
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