SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt won in the unofficial championship.
[3][4] Klaus Selignow of Rotation Babelsberg was the league's top scorer with 12 goals.
[5] After the conclusion of the 1954–55 season, the Oberliga was supposed to be played exclusively in the summer months, as was the standard in the Soviet Union.
As it was deemed impractical to not hold a competition for almost a year (the 1954-55 season had ended in April, the 1956 season was planned to begin in March) a transition championship was played.
[6] The 1955 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Fortschritt Weißenfels and BSG Lokomotive Stendal.