Dresdner SC
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Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden
, Saxony
. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member
of the German Football Association
(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side The English FC Dresden formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: Dresdener SC was organized by one-time German members of the EFC.
Early on, DSC made regular appearances in regional finals and captured several titles. They were a dominant side in the Mitteldeutschen Verbandsliga: from 1925 to 1930 they lost only two of the ninety games they played.
, one of sixteen top flight divisions established in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They captured the Tschammerpokal – the predecessor of today's German Cup in 1940 and 1941, and followed up with national titles in 1943 and 1944. Their 4:0 win over Luftwaffen SV Hamburg in Berlin's Olympiastadion made them the last holders of the Viktoria trophy, symbolic of German football supremacy since it was first awarded to VfB Leipzig in 1903. That trophy was secreted by a Dresden supporter to a bank safe deposit box
in what would become East Germany and remained hidden away for decades before finally being returned to the German Football Association
(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association).
past. In early 1946, the club was re-constituted as SG Friedrichstadt and then slipped into oblivion after a fateful appearance in the 1950 East German final. That match, against Soviet-sponsored Horch Zwickau, would be the end of the side which was regarded as being too bourgeoisie by the communist authorities. Zwickau played a viciously physical game and, abetted by the referee who refused the homeside substitutions and eventually reduced Friedrichstadt to an 8-man squad, "won" the match 5:1. Unhappy Dresdner/Friedrichstadt fans invaded the field several times, and at game's end, badly beat a Zwickau player. Mounted police were called in to restore order. Within weeks, orders came to dismantle the club and send the players to BSG Tabak Dresden. Most of the players instead fled to the west to play for Hertha BSC Berlin
. What happened to Dresdner/Friedrichstadt would become commonplace in East Germany as highly placed politicians or bureaucrats manipulated clubs for their own purposes.
The "new" Dresden SC was formed at the time of German re-unification, beginning play in the 1991–92 season. Since then, the club has played primarily as a tier III or IV side, but has slipped to Landesliga Sachsen (V) in the current season.
played for Dresdner/Friedrichstadt and would go on to become one of West Germany's most exceptional managers and, in an historical aside, also coached Saarland's World Cup side
in 1954.
Richard Hofmann
, nicknamed "King Richard", scored 24 goals in 25 games for the German national team
from 1927 to 1933
He also was one of the integral players in the DSC's cup and championship wins, but was never considered for the national team after 1933 for political reasons.
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
, Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member
Founding Clubs of the DFB
The DFB was formed January 28, 1900 in Leipzig. The commonly accepted number of founding clubs represented at the inaugural meeting is 86, but this number is uncertain. The vote held to establish the association was 62:22 in favour . Some delegates present represented more than one club, but may...
of the German Football Association
German Football Association
The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga, and the men's and women's national teams. The DFB is based in Frankfurt and is...
(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side The English FC Dresden formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: Dresdener SC was organized by one-time German members of the EFC.
Early on, DSC made regular appearances in regional finals and captured several titles. They were a dominant side in the Mitteldeutschen Verbandsliga: from 1925 to 1930 they lost only two of the ninety games they played.
The 30's and 40's
Dresdner's performance slipped for a time, but the club re-emerged as a strong side in the Gauliga SachsenGauliga Sachsen
The Gauliga Saxony was the highest football league in the German state of Saxony from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau Saxony replaced the state Saxony.-Overview:The league was introduced in 1933,...
, one of sixteen top flight divisions established in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They captured the Tschammerpokal – the predecessor of today's German Cup in 1940 and 1941, and followed up with national titles in 1943 and 1944. Their 4:0 win over Luftwaffen SV Hamburg in Berlin's Olympiastadion made them the last holders of the Viktoria trophy, symbolic of German football supremacy since it was first awarded to VfB Leipzig in 1903. That trophy was secreted by a Dresden supporter to a bank safe deposit box
Safe deposit box
A safe deposit box or wrongly referred to as a safety deposit box is an individually-secured container, usually held within a larger safe or bank vault. Safe deposit boxes are generally located in banks, post offices or other institutions...
in what would become East Germany and remained hidden away for decades before finally being returned to the German Football Association
German Football Association
The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga, and the men's and women's national teams. The DFB is based in Frankfurt and is...
(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association).
Post World War II
After World War II, all existing sports clubs and other organizations were banned by the Allied occupation authorities in an attempt to create a disconnect from the recent NaziNazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
past. In early 1946, the club was re-constituted as SG Friedrichstadt and then slipped into oblivion after a fateful appearance in the 1950 East German final. That match, against Soviet-sponsored Horch Zwickau, would be the end of the side which was regarded as being too bourgeoisie by the communist authorities. Zwickau played a viciously physical game and, abetted by the referee who refused the homeside substitutions and eventually reduced Friedrichstadt to an 8-man squad, "won" the match 5:1. Unhappy Dresdner/Friedrichstadt fans invaded the field several times, and at game's end, badly beat a Zwickau player. Mounted police were called in to restore order. Within weeks, orders came to dismantle the club and send the players to BSG Tabak Dresden. Most of the players instead fled to the west to play for Hertha BSC Berlin
Hertha BSC Berlin
Hertha Berliner Sport-Club von 1892, commonly known as Hertha BSC or Hertha Berlin, is a German association football club based in Berlin. A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin's best-supported side...
. What happened to Dresdner/Friedrichstadt would become commonplace in East Germany as highly placed politicians or bureaucrats manipulated clubs for their own purposes.
Dissolution
At this point the history of the club becomes quite convoluted, with a number of sides laying claim to some part of the heritage of Dresdner SC:- Local side Volkspolizei Dresden, founded in 1948, was groomed as an ideologically safe "replacement" for the city's loss of their favoured team. The team was assembled using seventeen players plucked from eleven other clubs, the bulk of that number coming from SG Mickten. By the 1952–53 season the club was known as Dynamo DresdenDynamo DresdenSG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...
and would go on to become one of East Germany's best teams. Unfortunately, they ran-afoul of StasiStasiThe Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered...
-sponsored Berliner FC DynamoBerliner FC DynamoBerliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:...
. While they had only limited opportunity to challenge on fair terms for the national championship, they did become the country's most successful side internationally. The club struggled after German re-unification in 1990, but recovered themselves sufficiently to earn a place in 2.Bundesliga where they temporalily played as SG Dynamo Dresden.
- What was left of SG MicktenSG MicktenSG Mickten were a football club from the Mickten district of Dresden. They were a predecessor side to the modern Dresdner SC, not to be confused with the original Dresdner SC that won some national titels before the war. They were a Stasi sponsored team like most Dresdner teams back then and East...
, formed in 1947, was merged with BSG Sachsenverlag Dresden in 1950 and then went through a number of other mergers and name changes: BSG Rotation Dresden (1951–1954); SC Einheit Dresden (1954–1965); FSV Lokomotive Dresden (1966–1990); and finally, in 1990, became today's Dresdner SC 1898.
- BSG Tabak Dresden was a descendant of Dresdner SV 1910 which had taken in the players of the local sides of Striesen, Blasewitz, Tolkewitz und Laubegast at the behest of the Nazi sport authorities in 1933. The side was re-formed as SG Striesen after the war in 1945 and played as ZSG Nagema Dresden in 1948 and 1949. The side then became Tabak, where the players of Dresdner/Friedrichstadt were officially directed after the farce of the 1950 final against Zwickau. The club SG Dresden Striesen emerged out of it all in June 1991.
- Another thread of the current incarnation of Dresdner SC can be traced back to the Gauliga side Dresdner Sportfreunde, itself built out of the forced pre-war merger of a number of local sides. After World War II, that club was re-formed as SG Pieschen and then went through its own confusing series of unions with other clubs during the 50s. In 1966, the football side of the club emerged as FSV Lokomotiv Dresden.
The "new" Dresden SC was formed at the time of German re-unification, beginning play in the 1991–92 season. Since then, the club has played primarily as a tier III or IV side, but has slipped to Landesliga Sachsen (V) in the current season.
Honours
- German Championship: 2
- Winners 1943, 1944
- German Cup: 2
- Winners 1940, 1941
- FDGB-Pokal: 1
- Winners 1958
- Mitteldeutsche MeisterschaftCentral German football championshipThe Central German football championship was the highest association football competition in Central Germany, in what is now the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, established in 1902...
: 6- Winners 1905, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933
- Mitteldeutscher Pokal: 2
- 1928, 1933
- East German U17 Cup: 1
- Winners 1961
- East German U15 Championship: 1
- Winners 1961
- Gauliga SachsenGauliga SachsenThe Gauliga Saxony was the highest football league in the German state of Saxony from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau Saxony replaced the state Saxony.-Overview:The league was introduced in 1933,...
: 6- Winners 1934, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944
Famous players
Helmut SchönHelmut Schön
Helmut Schön was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of West Germany....
played for Dresdner/Friedrichstadt and would go on to become one of West Germany's most exceptional managers and, in an historical aside, also coached Saarland's World Cup side
Saarland national football team
The Saarland national football team was the association football team representing Saarland from 1950 to 1956 during the French occupation following World War II...
in 1954.
Richard Hofmann
Richard Hofmann
Richard Hofmann was a German football player. He played in 25 internationals for Germany as a centre forward, scoring 24 goals, including the first ever international hat-trick against England by a player from outside the home nations.-Life and career:He was born in Meerane, Saxony, Germany, and...
, nicknamed "King Richard", scored 24 goals in 25 games for the German national team
Germany national football team
The Germany national football team is the football team that has represented Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association , which was founded in 1900....
from 1927 to 1933
He also was one of the integral players in the DSC's cup and championship wins, but was never considered for the national team after 1933 for political reasons.
DSC-Players who played for the German national team
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Modern eraSven BenkenSven Benken Sven Benken is a former German football player. He played for five seasons in the Bundesliga for SV Werder Bremen and F.C. Hansa Rostock.-Honours:* DFB-Pokal winner: 1998–99* DFB-Pokal finalist: 1996–97... René Beuchel René Beuchel René Beuchel is a German former footballer. He is best known for two spells with Dynamo Dresden, the first beginning in 1992. He moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1995, and later played for FSV Zwickau and Dresdner SC before returning to Dynamo in 2002, where he remained for five years, before... Steffen Binke Steffen Büttner Steffen Büttner Steffen Büttner is a German former footballer who played as a defender. Büttner began his career with Dynamo Dresden, making his debut in 1984. He established himself in the Dynamo first team throughout the late 1980s, winning two East German titles, and two Cups... Andreas Diebitz Andreas Diebitz -External links:*... Ronny Ernst Thomas Hoßmang Thomas Hoßmang Thomas Hoßmang is a German former footballer who now manages Budissa Bautzen.-External links:*... Nikica Maglica Nikica Maglica Nikica Maglica is a Croatian former football player who was assistant manager of Dynamo Dresden 2007-2011.-External links:* at Playerhistory.* at Transfermarkt.... Rocco Milde Rocco Milde Rocco Milde is a German former footballer who played as a striker. Milde had a much-travelled career, but is best remembered as a Dynamo Dresden player, having had three separate spells with the club.-Honours:*DDR-Oberliga: 1989, 1990... Sven Ratke Sven Ratke Sven Ratke is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder or forward.Ratke began his career with Dynamo Dresden, making his debut in the 1989–90 season, in which the club won the League and Cup double, with Ratke coming on as a substitute for Matthias Döschner in the cup final... Heiko Scholz Heiko Scholz Heiko Scholz is a former German footballer who is currently manager at Viktoria Köln.-International career:Scholz represented both East Germany and unified Germany internationally.-External links:**... Andreas Trautmann Andreas Trautmann Andreas Trautmann is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. Trautmann spent much of his career with Dynamo Dresden, for whom he played 270 games in the DDR-Oberliga... Jens-Uwe Zöphel Jens-Uwe Zöphel -External links:**... |