1949 Ostzonenmeisterschaft
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The Ostzonenmeisterschaft 1949 (English: Championship of the Eastern Zone) was the second association football championship in what was to become East Germany. As in the previous season
, it was played in a one-leg knock-out format with ten participating teams. Each of the five Länder
—Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg
, Saxony
, Thuringia
and Saxony-Anhalt
—sent two representatives. Unlike the previous season, none of the regional championships was ended early, even if the participants for the championship had already been Last year's winner SG Planitz
did not qualify, but finalists SG Freiimfelde Halle – renamed ZSG Union Halle – reached the final again, this time beating Fortuna Erfurt to win their first championship.
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SG FORTUNA ERFURT
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Heinz Grünbeck
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Horst Müller
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Werner Vollrath
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Werner Brock
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Helmut Nordhaus
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Jochen Müller
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Herbert Löbe
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Willi Dittmar
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Fritz Schmidt
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Winfried Herz
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Kurt Thein
Manager:
Ostzonenmeisterschaft 1948
The Ostzonenmeisterschaft 1948 was the first championship in what was to become East Germany. It was played in a one-leg knock-out format with ten participating teams. Each of the five Länder—Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt—sent two representatives...
, it was played in a one-leg knock-out format with ten participating teams. Each of the five Länder
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
—Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
, 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....
, Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
and Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...
—sent two representatives. Unlike the previous season, none of the regional championships was ended early, even if the participants for the championship had already been Last year's winner SG Planitz
FSV Zwickau
FSV Zwickau is a German association football club located in Zwickau, Saxony. Today's club claims as part of its complex heritage sides that were East Germany's first champions: 1948 Ostzone winners SG Planitz and 1950 DDR-Oberliga champions ZSG Horch Zwickau.-History:In addition to the earliest...
did not qualify, but finalists SG Freiimfelde Halle – renamed ZSG Union Halle – reached the final again, this time beating Fortuna Erfurt to win their first championship.
Teams qualified for the play-offs
| Club | Qualified as |
| SG Friedrichstadt Dresdner SC 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 in 1900... |
Champions of Saxony |
| SG Meerane | Saxony runners-up |
| SG Fortuna Erfurt | Champions of Thuringia |
| SG Altenburg-Nord | Thuringia Runners-up |
| ZSG Union Halle | Champions of Saxony-Anhalt |
| SG Eintracht Stendal Lok Stendal 1. FC Lok Stendal is a German association football club that plays in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt.- History :Founded in 1909, FC Viktoria Stendal was dissolved in the aftermath of World War II and re-established in Soviet-occupied East Germany in 1945 as SG Stendal-Nord. The club underwent a number of... |
Saxony-Anhalt runners-up |
| SG Babelsberg Fortuna Babelsberg Fortuna Babelsberg is a German football club from the south-eastern part of the city of Potsdam in Brandenburg. A former East German side, they currently play in the Landesliga Brandenburg-Nord, the 7th tier of the German football league system.... |
Brandenburg champions |
| SG Franz Mehring Marga | Brandenburg runners-up |
| SG Wismar-Süd | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern champions |
| SG Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern runners-up |
Preliminary round
Quarter finals
Semi finals
ZSG Union Halle - SG Eintracht Stendal 3-0Final
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| ' | Horst Schmidt | ||
| ' | Fritz Belger | ||
| ' | Erich Lehmann | ||
| ' | Kurt Fritzsche | ||
| ' | Otto Knefler | ||
| ' | Erich Blanke | ||
| ' | Rolf Theile | ||
| ' | Otto Werkmeister | ||
| ' | Herbert Rappsilber | ||
| ' | Horst Blüher | ||
| ' | Karl Golla | ||
| Manager: | |||