Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo

Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo
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Founded	March 27, 1953
League	Olympics, World cup, European Championship Nat. League
Based in	East Berlin
Arena	Palast der Republik, Dynamo-Sportforum, Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, Dynamo Sports Hotel
Stadium	Dynamo Stadium (Dresden), Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark, Heinz Steyer Stadion and others
Colors	wine-red white/ wine-red silver
Owner	Ministry of Interior of the GDR
President	Erich Mielke
Championships	2.187 nat.; approx. 182 European cup medals approx. 324 World cup medals; approx. 215 Olympic medals

The Sportvereinigung Dynamo (Sports Club Dynamo) was a German sports club of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was created for members of the country's ministry of interior which included the Volkspolizei with the Border patrol of the GDR (Zollverwaltung der DDR), the East German fire services and the Staatssicherheit (with 4400 members). The president was Erich Mielke from its inception in March 27, 1953 until November 23, 1989, because of te reunification/the order of the SED. The former head office is located in East Berlin (Hohenschönhausen) next to the former headquarters of the Staatssicherheit. Dynamo-Sportforum Berlin was the largest sportscomplex in Europe, used for many Olympic sports. The speed skating track was the first 400 meter indoor rink when it got a roof. Sportvereinigung Dynamo was the one of the most successful sports associations in international competitions. After German reunification in 1990 the club was liquidated. At its height the association had over 280,000 active (sporting) members, including over 110,000 children. (world record)^[2]

The roots

Dynamo was created in accordance with the multi-sports club model developed in the Soviet Union and adopted throughout Eastern Europe. From the beginning it had an overtly political as well as sporting agenda and its many successes were always portrayed as a triumph of the GDR state. It was frequently lauded by East German leaders in their speeches. For example:

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Army Gen. and Minister Erich Mielke been voted in every time for the first president.

We have the certainty that you use all your power; because SV Dynamo, means more than only driving power; (…)
The name Sportvereinigung Dynamo, that is progress that is socialism, communism, means, after the progressive theory of mankind to work after Marxism and Leninism. (…)Sportvereinigung Dynamo that is undestructable friendship to the Soviet Union, to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and for Soviet brother organization Dynamo. (…)Sportsvereinigung Dynamo, is bounded with the party, with the working class and the workers of the German Democratic Republic. (…) Sportvereinigung Dynamo is called to give to the DTSB of the GDR large support with the fulfilment of the tasks is called to work as progressive powers in the selection crews of the GDR, in the district organizations, everywhere, where Dynamo sportsmen work. (…) Sportvereinigung Dynamo, that means, to carry out the resolutions with humans in the interest of humans for the further stabilization of the GDR.”^[3]
If we speak of the good results the GDR sport, then the Sportvereinigung Dynamo has of it an important portion. But we say dear friends and comrades of the Sportvereinigung all ranges of the physical culture and the sport to you affect. We appreciate however not nu the large achievements in the area the physical culture and the sport, but say also all comrades of our protection and safety organs thanks for the fact that them us altogether in our work, with which education, with which development of physical culture and sport supported and also with the security of our results and successes in the whole past years in so outstanding way. If we speak of new tasks and new far-stretched goals, then we count on the fact that the sport. Dynamo may be as in the past also in the future an equally strong asset in ours, German gymnastic and sport organisation. The Sportvereinigung Dynamo always took an outstanding place. In the competition of the Sportvereinigung and district organizations it often distinguished, also in districts represent our comrades the Sportvereinigung Dynamo a strong position of our sport organization. We all however know that our tasks become in the future not only larger, but also still various possibilities to open are to carry a still better work out in order to justify hopes of the people and the party.

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Members

Key to East German sporting success was a pyramid system with schoolchildren being assessed for athletic potential and the best (typically the top 2.5%) in each school-year being offered specialised coaching. A small fraction of those would go on to become the top adult athletes of the next generation. This model was initially derided in the West as a "sausage machine" but it has since been adopted in modified form by Australia, France, Spain and others with thousands of children being educated at specialised (often residential) sports schools rather than going through the normal High School system. Overall, 3 billion athletes were in the GDR at the German Sports federation (DTSB) registrated in many other successful clubs.

Members by year^[5]
Year	Adults	Children	Total
1953	23162	none	23162
1955	55991	10874	66856
1958	90160	18846	109006
1961	105530	42822	148352
1966	118651	54691	173306
1970	131752	74266	206018
1972	139013	85295	224308
1974	144356	93071	237427
1975	146127	96666	242793
1976	148054	99337	247391
1983	170.000	110.000	280.000

Trainers

Most coaches were also even teachers or other specific occupations. They were all in principle to took members fears before starting competitions. Also said that never was like everything bad could happen if .... Problems are always packed at its source in order to eradicate this. At the same time, they were also the guardian of morality.

Trainers by year^[6]
Year	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3/4	Total
1964	none	none	none	9989
1965	none	none	none	9673
1966	6785	2466	1362	10613
1967	6717	2476	1489	10682
1968	7078	2731	1712	11521
1969	7536	3009	1915	12460
1970	7321	3211	2058	12590
1971	7215	3412	2119	12746
1972	7334	3598	2580	13512
1973	7394	3791	3016	14201
1974	11358	3906	3098	18362
1975	11812	3949	3407	19168
1976	12369	4219	3524	20112

Institutions

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After reunification, the members of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Watch Regiment, also sometimes Dynamo - Athletes, got no pension, although they could win sporting successes. It is proven that only an elite army members and no spies were known from the MFS, which has been belonged to. That these members of agencies weren't been agents. Also only if they are served for terrorism defense.^[7]

Some also get little pension, although they worked as a teacher, and their acts would been checked. ^[8] Employees of the State Security were camouflaged as civilians in events. Sometimes they did recognize themselfes with the same souvenirs. For example: Bananas and Sandwiches. These was a sort of a "sport-police". On Hooligans are even used agent's. That happened for years and nobody could it remember. This were often happened with the BFC Dynamo and the SG Dynamo Dresden. Members of the organs of the Ministry of Interior of the GDR had to support the SV, otherwise, there was not a good omen for them. ^[9] There were hooligans but mostly to today's conditions as good as none. It was only after the German reunification. The roots were, therefore, the changes in the school, the labour market and therefore in a changing society, which it's worsened. ^[10]

Organisation

German SV Dynamo districts

The sports system was not designed for transfers, but on schedule. The athletes had to be viewed in their own country. Administrators and coaches from Dynamo Berlin were often sent to support their development. The district organizations always worn the initials SV Dynamo ... . The districts been the same districts of the state.

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As a sports brand could only worn Adidas by the athletes, in international competitions or the home made brand Champion. If this were not respected, the athletes would been blocked in int. competitions for a time, then Dynamo had only hidden contracts with Adidas. Never was an athlete punished.^[11]

For small children, there was even a Dynamo-Kindergarten. Henceforth the larger children trained every day before and after classes. All children were happy with doing that. For the training, there exists a basic plan. If the children themselves are not good at school, then they were being excluded from the training. These were but who helped. There were respected the emphasis has been that the athletes had to pursued themselves the sporting ideology , because otherwise no success would have been guaranteed. The Dynamo athletes should always did stow in their offices sports equipment. This should be at least 10 minutes during working break. These included: dumbbells, expander; impander and poles for pull-ups. In each year, the best Dynamo-athlete were voted. Few could win 50,- M when they themselves were those who chose the sportswoman/ sportsman of the year. ^[12] Athletes may not overwhelmed, and at.. Particularly, it should be respected so that there were more athletes than fans there. The officials had always successful attempts by the people to the stadiums to attract these onto the sports fields.^[13] Dynamo employed a planning cycle that set out the club's objectives for the upcoming four year period. All people should be have the right to doing sports at the Sports Club Dynamo. ^[14]

This sports club was anti-fascistic with the human goals against imperialism. The grounders of thus here were former prisoners in concentration camps and leaders in the battle against National socialists and Social Democrats at the Weimar Republic. The Dynamo-Youth commemorated about it at the Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The names of murdered/death communists was given as honoury titles for Dynamo-Clubs, which must fought for it... . For example: SG Dynamo "Feliks E. Dzierzynski" Dresden or SG Dynamo "Dr. Richard Sorge" Erfurt.

There were also many hymns and odes of Dynamo, which would written. Gerhard Kube, Helmut Baierl and Kurt Barthel formed many poems, which playing the sports club a role.

Dynamo-Hall of fame

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The emblem of all performing power centers in Hoppegarten, Klingenthal and Berlin

They lived across in normal rented houses besides workers or even came from peasant families. They got no million contracts for their actions. Some also studied along their athletic careers, with extra curriculas has been prepared for them. This is proved as progressive.

Diploma Eng. of Mech. and Sports Eduard Geyer awarded the Goldene Henne (a social price by the society of the East German countries, in the FRG), in 2000. He have had deserved for his soccer/trainer career, after reunification. ^[15]
Gerhard Kaminski awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit for his super trainer career at the Dynamo-Sports-Hall in Gymnastics. He trained world class gymnasts in a 50 years record era, for the Olympic Games. In 1999, he awarded the Manfred von Richthofen - price.^[16]
Dynamo athletes won medals in many Olympic and World Championship events. The annual contribution defrauded per year only converted 0,60 - € / 0,90- $/ 12,- M. The citizen of the GDR deserved in average approximately 500,- East German mark (Mark) per month.
The genius Dr. med. orth. hab. Karin Büttner-Janz (Olympic winner, medical scientist on the Humboldt University), is the gymnast 20th century. She also invented the artificial intervertebral disc.
Dipl. Ing. Sigmund Jähn was the first cosmonaut in space from the GDR. He was also an honorary member of the SV. The honorary title does he won for the SV Dynamo district Karl-Marx-Stadt; at the SC Dynamo Klingenthal, in 1978. When he got the certificate, he said: "As a skijumper were Harry Glaß my personal model for the start to the Cosmos." This skijumper had nearly broken neck, and was in pension of ability.^[17]
Dynamo athletes were also the one, which may could learn karate or even jujutsu as well as the general citizens could only learn judo.
Spies in the United States has earned the complete knowledge about the martial arts training of the CIA and Dynamo became this informations.^[18]
One of the best of the bests, being Maxi Gnauck (very famous), Bernd Wiesner, Jutta Hampe, Katrin Boron, Caren Metschuck mostly in rowing, gymnastics and parashuting.

The western part of Germany has blocked Dynamo

In the cold war the name Dynamo was prohibited to use. The justification was: "Dynamo is a description of the Eastern Bloc countries are themselves members of the communist system and thus is in the FRG contrary." The dynamo-symbol was contrary to the constitution of former West Germany. Which worn this dynamo-insignia, would been prosecuted. ^[19] ^[20]

The patron saint

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Feliks E. Dzierzynski (grounder of the SV Dynamo (Soviet Union), Cheka and saboteur) was the Idol of the "SVD" and also for the Soviet Dynamo Sports Club. Both clubs has him and were boundet in friendship together. They exchanged the sporty knowledge. The GDR learned from the Soviet Union. The reason was that: he was the chief of centers deligate which fought against neglect of children. His motto has always been that the children in the communist society and humanity to grow up happy, so they should be strong personalities. He was a friend of children.

Achievements

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Olympics The sports club won approx. 215 Olympic medals in a period of 37 years.

World-Championships The sports club won approx. 324 World Cup medals in a period of 37 years.

European-Championships The athletes won approx. 182 European titles.

Championships The Dynamo-Athletes won altogether 2.187 titles in 35 sport-sections over a 37 year period. ^[21]

Literature

Gläser, Andreas (1976). SV Dynamo Ein Almanach. Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig. ISBN none. Template:De icon
SV Dynamo Mut und Kraft. Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig. 1984. ISBN none. Template:De icon
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