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. SG Dynamo Berlin was the first club to bear the name "Dynamo Berlin". The football team of SG Dynamo Berlin 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 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 then decided to relocate its three second-tier teams SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam, SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Weimar and SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin to sports communities larger cities. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was relocated to Berlin, SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Weimar to Erfurt and SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin to Rostock. The football department of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was thus relocated to East Berlin and merged with SV Deutsche Volkspolizei 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 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 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. 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, Joachim Hall, Christian Hofmann and Klaus Thiemann. The youth department of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen was eventually merged with the youth department of SC Dynamo Berlin in August 1963 in order to raise the level of youth activities. The new youth department had 19 youth teams.