SG Frankenhausen

SG Frankenhausen is a sports club, consisting of ice hockey and volleyball sections, in the Frankenhausen area of Crimmitschau.

History
The club was founded in 1933 as TV Frankenhausen. They won the Saxony Championship in three consecutive years from 1940-1942.

In 1946 they were re-founded as SG Frankenhausen. Now within the boundaries East Germany, the club won the Ostozonenmeisterschaft in 1949 and the 1950 DDR Winter Sports Hockey Championship. They were crowned East German champions both times.

SG Frankenhausen was renamed BSG Wismut Erz Frankenhausen in 1952. They won the FDGB-Pokal in 1953. In addition, the club finished as runners-up to SG Dynamo Weißwasser in the DDR-Oberliga in 1951, 1951-52, 1952-53, and 1953-54. They were known as BSG Wismut Frankenhausen for the 1953-54 season.

The club was renamed BSG Wismut Zwickau in 1954 and played in the DDR-Oberliga under this name for the 1954-55 season.

In 1955 the team moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt and became SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt. This marked the end of top-level hockey in Frankenhausen.

SG Frankenhausen was again re-established in 1994. It is now purely a recreational/hobby team.

Ostzonenmeisterschaft (1949)

 * 1949: Defeated SG Grün-Weiß Pankow in the final.