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==Dynamo-Sportforum== |
==Dynamo-Sportforum== |
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The [[Dynamo-Sportforum]] was a multi-use sports complex in [[East Berlin]] that contained an athletic stadium, a gymnasium, a roller-skating hall, an ice rink, and a velodrome. |
The [[Dynamo-Sportforum]] was a multi-use sports complex in [[East Berlin]] that contained an athletic stadium, a gymnasium, a roller-skating hall, an ice rink, and a velodrome. |
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==Controversies surrounding the ''Sport Club Dynamo''== |
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===The case of doping=== |
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The [[Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo|Sportverein Dynamo]]<ref>Pain And Injury in Sport: Social And Ethical Analysis, Section III, Chapter 7, Page 111, by Sigmund Loland, Berit Skirstad, Ivan Waddington, Published by Routledge in 2006, ASIN: B000OI0HZG</ref> was especially singled out as a center for doping in the former East Germany<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.lycos.co.uk/dopingopfer/kommentar_ordner/09_2002/dynamo_liste_web.htm|title=Dynamo Liste (in German)|publisher=doping_opfer@yahoo.com|date=September 2002|accessdate=10 March 2008}}</ref>. Many former club officials and some athletes found themselves charged after the dissolution of the country. A special page on the internet was created by doping victims trying to gain justice and compensation, listing people involved in doping at the club, the so called ''Dynamo Liste''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.lycos.co.uk/dopingopfer/taeter/taeter_alle.htm|title=Dynamo Liste: Die Täter (in German)|publisher=doping_opfer@yahoo.com|date=September 2002|accessdate=11 March 2008}}</ref>. |
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Two former [[Dynamo Berlin]] club doctors, Dieter Binus, chief of the national women's team from 1976 to 80, and Bernd Pansold, in charge of the sports medicine center in East-Berlin, were committed for trial for allegedly supplying 19 teenagers with illegal substances <ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/34496.stm|title=New doping charges against East German doctors|publisher=BBC News|date=25 November 1997|accessdate=7 March 2008}}</ref>. Binus was sentenced in August<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sport/161913.stm|title=East German coaches fined over doping|publisher=BBC News|date=31 August 1998|accessdate=11 March 2008}}</ref>, Pansold in Dezember 1998 after both being found guilty of administering hormones to underage female athletes from 1975 to 1984<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svl.ch/doping/ddr_doping_minderjaehrige.html|title=Doping of underage athletes in the former GDR (in German)|publisher=Schwimmverein Limmat Zürich |date=23 March 2000|accessdate=10 March 2008}}</ref>. |
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===The ''Stasi'' and ''Erich Mielke''=== |
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[[Erich Mielke]], chief of '''Dynamo''', was also the all-powerfull leader of the [[Stasi]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/764397.stm|title=Ex-Stasi chief dies|publisher=BBC News|date=25 May 2000|accessdate=11 March 2008}}</ref>, the Secret Police of East Germany, mother organisation of '''Dynamo''', along with the ''GDR Border Guards''. The ''Stasi'' was widely regarded as one of the most effective intelligence agencies in the world. The intensity of state surveillance was probably without parallel anywhere in the world. In 1989, the Stasi had 91,000 staff members and 174,000 unofficial collaborators - a ratio of one spy for every 62 citizens. |
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''Mielke'' was sentenced in Berlin to six years in prison in 1993 for the murder of two policemen in 1931. However he was freed after two years when he was diagnosed as senile<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/miel-a24.shtml|title=Erich Mielke—the career of a German Stalinist|publisher=World Socialist Web Site, Ludwig Niethammer|date=24 August 2000|accessdate=11 March 2008}}</ref>. |
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The Berlin Public Prosecution Department reckons that about 270 'proven' deaths on the border were due to acts of violence by GDR border security guards, including deaths caused by mines and automatic firing devices. The Central Assessment Group for Governmental and Federational Crimes (German ZERV), however, has registered 421 suspected cases of killings by armed GDR border guards<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amnesty.nl/bibliotheek_vervolg/thema_berechting_case_1|title=GERMANY AND THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - Truth and justice|publisher=Amnesty International, Daan Bronkhorst|date=June 2006|accessdate=11 March 2008}}</ref>. |
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==Honours== |
==Honours== |
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The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was a training center for the Sports Club Dynamo (Sports club of the Ministry of Police and the Ministry for Public Security).
Sporting spectrum
The sports club offered the following kinds of sport: team hand ball, athletics, gymnastics, cycling, speed skating, racewalking, figure skating, ice hockey, fencing, boxing, and volleyball. The section football was separated from the BFC Dynamo in 1966.
Dynamo-Sportforum
The Dynamo-Sportforum was a multi-use sports complex in East Berlin that contained an athletic stadium, a gymnasium, a roller-skating hall, an ice rink, and a velodrome.
Controversies surrounding the Sport Club Dynamo
The case of doping
The Sportverein Dynamo[1] was especially singled out as a center for doping in the former East Germany[2]. Many former club officials and some athletes found themselves charged after the dissolution of the country. A special page on the internet was created by doping victims trying to gain justice and compensation, listing people involved in doping at the club, the so called Dynamo Liste[3].
Two former Dynamo Berlin club doctors, Dieter Binus, chief of the national women's team from 1976 to 80, and Bernd Pansold, in charge of the sports medicine center in East-Berlin, were committed for trial for allegedly supplying 19 teenagers with illegal substances [4]. Binus was sentenced in August[5], Pansold in Dezember 1998 after both being found guilty of administering hormones to underage female athletes from 1975 to 1984[6].
The Stasi and Erich Mielke
Erich Mielke, chief of Dynamo, was also the all-powerfull leader of the Stasi[7], the Secret Police of East Germany, mother organisation of Dynamo, along with the GDR Border Guards. The Stasi was widely regarded as one of the most effective intelligence agencies in the world. The intensity of state surveillance was probably without parallel anywhere in the world. In 1989, the Stasi had 91,000 staff members and 174,000 unofficial collaborators - a ratio of one spy for every 62 citizens.
Mielke was sentenced in Berlin to six years in prison in 1993 for the murder of two policemen in 1931. However he was freed after two years when he was diagnosed as senile[8].
The Berlin Public Prosecution Department reckons that about 270 'proven' deaths on the border were due to acts of violence by GDR border security guards, including deaths caused by mines and automatic firing devices. The Central Assessment Group for Governmental and Federational Crimes (German ZERV), however, has registered 421 suspected cases of killings by armed GDR border guards[9].
Honours
The Sports Club Dynamo produced numerous well-known athletes, including Christoph Höhne (racewalking), Ilona Slupianek (shot put), Karin Janz (gymnastics), Axel Peschel (cycle racing), Joachim Ziesche and Dietmar Peter (ice hockey), Helga Haase (speed skating), and Barbara Krause (swimming).
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- ^ Pain And Injury in Sport: Social And Ethical Analysis, Section III, Chapter 7, Page 111, by Sigmund Loland, Berit Skirstad, Ivan Waddington, Published by Routledge in 2006, ASIN: B000OI0HZG
- ^ "Dynamo Liste (in German)". doping_opfer@yahoo.com. September 2002. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
- ^ "Dynamo Liste: Die Täter (in German)". doping_opfer@yahoo.com. September 2002. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ "New doping charges against East German doctors". BBC News. 25 November 1997. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
- ^ "East German coaches fined over doping". BBC News. 31 August 1998. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ "Doping of underage athletes in the former GDR (in German)". Schwimmverein Limmat Zürich. 23 March 2000. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
- ^ "Ex-Stasi chief dies". BBC News. 25 May 2000. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ "Erich Mielke—the career of a German Stalinist". World Socialist Web Site, Ludwig Niethammer. 24 August 2000. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ "GERMANY AND THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - Truth and justice". Amnesty International, Daan Bronkhorst. June 2006. Retrieved 11 March 2008.