In 1954, Dynamo Dresden was "uprooted" to Berlin by Erich Mielke, the head of the Stasi, the East German intelligence network, who decided that East Germany's capital city should have the best team in the land. That team was named Berliner FC Dynamo or better known as Dynamo Berlin. Desden scraped around in the countries lower leagues with reserves and youth players that Mielke had deemed to be surplus to requirements.
Dresden regrouped and won promotion to the top flight in 1962. Then, between 1971 and 1978 they won five titles. At this point, Mielke ordered the best players from the state to turn out for Dynamo Berlin, a club that won ten titles from 1979 to 1988. Dresden came second in six of those seasons and relief was provided in European competitions when the club would regularly perform better than Mielke's Berliners. So it seems somewhat harsh that despite the indignities visited upon them at home, Dynamo Dresden's greatest humiliation would be suffered on the European stage!
Dresden had a fabulous squad in 1985-6 including Ulf Kirsten, Ralf Minge and Matthias Sammer boosting a side that won the first leg of their Cup Winners Cup quarter-final against West Germany's Bayer Uerdingen 2-0 and were 3-1 up at 58 minutes of the away tie at Uerdingen's Krefeld Stadium. So at 5-1 up on with three away goals in the bag, the club looked home and dry! At this ;point the roof fell in! Uerdingen scored FIVE goals in 21 minutes to make it 5-6 on aggregate. Wolfgang Schafer hammered in the final "nail" to Dresden's coffin with a seventh goal five minutes from time.
Dresden striker Frank Lippmann, above, snapped and fed up with being "hounded" by the Stasi after a drink-driving incident the year before, he defected to West Germany that very evening!! HERE IS ANOTHER MORE FAMOUS DEFECTOR! who defected during the 1956–57 European Cup in Madrid, Spain. Below:
| Ferenc Puskás | Football player | Hungary | 1956 |
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