[3][4] It marked, together with a cup win in the following season, the last highlight in the club's history as, two seasons later, Vorwärts was moved from East Berlin to Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons and never again won another national title after the move.
Hansa Rostock was the league's top scorer with 18 goals,[6] while Eberhard Vogel of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.
[7] On the strength of the 1968–69 title Vorwärts qualified for the 1969–70 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Feyenoord in the quarter-finals.
Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Ajax while fourth-placed F.C.
[8] The 1968–69 season saw two newly promoted clubs Berliner FC Dynamo and BSG Stahl Riesa.