History of Berliner FC Dynamo (1989–2004)
A large number of players left the club after the season, including Heiko Bonan, Burkhard Reich, Waldemar Ksienzyk, and Hendrik Herzog.
The Sommer and Bernt presidium was eventually overthrown by supporters and the former coach of the women's team Volkmar Lucius, after an application to the Charlottenburg District Court.
A FIFA resolution for a more consistent distinction between amateurs and contract players prompted a radical reform to professionalize East German top-flight football.
[1]: 134–135 Striker Frank Pastor, who had been the league top goalscorer in the 1986-87 DDR-Oberliga, was transferred to BSG Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe at the beginning of the tumultuous 1989–90 season.
[4] Coach Helmut Jäschke decided to place young goalkeeper Oskar Kosche in the upcoming match against HFC Chemie in the 1989-90 FDGB-Pokal on 4 November 1989.
[11][12] In connection with the match between East Germany and Austria in Vienna during the qualifiers for the 1990 FIFA World Cup on 15 November 1989, Calmund managed to obtain the contact details of Andreas Thom.
His football knowledge was limited, and he was now torn between the fear of losing his job and the realization that he probably did not have the managerial skills required to market BFC Dynamo in the capitalist West.
[54] Heiko Bonan, Burkhard Reich, Waldemar Ksienzyk, Thorsten Boer, Eike Küttner, Jörg Fügner, Jörn Lenz, Hendrik Herzog, Dirk Rehbein and Christian Backs were among the key players.
[73][74][52] The team lost several key players after the 1990–91 season: Heiko Bonan left for VfL Bochum, Burkard Reich for Karlsruher SC, Waldermar Ksienzyk and Eike Küttner for Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin, Thorsten Boer for Chemnitzer FC, Hendrik Herzog for Schalke 04.
The starting eleven included players such as Oskar Kosche, Christian Backs, Jens-Uwe Zöphel, Jörg Fügner, Mario Tolkmitt, and Mikhail Pronichev.
[106] FC Berlin finished the 1993–94 NOFV-Oberliga Nord in fourth place and qualified for the re-instated Regionalliga, which would now form the new third tier in the German football league system.
[107] Landmann was seen as a man of the youth department, whose members had intervened for a long time against managing director Dr. Dieter Fuchs and former coach Jürgens Bogs.
But the team suffered a close 0–1 loss to FC Sachsen Leipzig at the Stadion im Sportforum on 27 July 1997 right at the start of the 1997–98 Regionalliga Nordost.
[151] Other applicants for had been Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Reinhard Häfner, Matthias Döschner, Fritz Bohla, Wolfgang Metzler, Rüdiger Kreische and Jürgen Bogs.
[1]: 546 [156] FC Berlin was up for a difficult start to the 1998–99 Regionalliga Nordost season, with matches against Carl Zeiss Jena, Erzgebirge Aue and FSV Zwickau.
[145] The team played its first match under the old and new name BFC Dynamo against FSV Lok Altmark Stendal at the Stadion im Sportforum on the 25h matchday of the 1998-99 Regionlliga Nordost on 5 May 1999.
[179] During his tenure as club president, Wanski had also managed to get a politician like social democratic SPD City Councilor for Finance Matthias Stawinoga on board.
[182][183][184][185][163] The squad now included several experienced players such as Nico Thomaschewski, Jörn Lenz, Mario Maek, Heiko Brestrich, Thorsten Boer, Dirk Rehbein, Norman Struck, Martino Gatti and Jens Reckmann.
[201] In order raise money for the empty coffers of the youth department, BFC Dynamo planned in early 2000 to organize an auction of old trophies and memorabilia from its heyday.
[1]: 151 BFC Dynamo finally received a promising new main sponsor, in the form of computer software company Lipro AG, at the beginning of 2000.
Lipro AG explained that BFC Dynamo had been chosen because the club pursued ambitious sporting plans based on excellent youth work.
Bogs did not want do deal with a possible rebuilding of the team until March 2000, and demanded nine points from the first three league games after the winter break, against 1.FC Magdeburg, FSV Zwickau and FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt.
[203][208][209] The reason for the resignation of President Wanski was allegedly that the sponsor Lipro AG demanded greater influence in club decision making.
[243] Vice President Günter Haake admitted that the budget for the coming season was only partially covered, but claimed that a new sponsorship contract with Lipro AG was ready to be signed.
[264] Sporting director Reker became a scapegoat for the club's financial problems because he had put together a very expensive team for the previous season and had promised rescue for several months without results.
[249][251][278] And when Thomas Doll was sold by Hamburger SV to S.S. Lazio in 1991, the club earned about a million Deutsche Mark in additional money from a percentage of the transfer fee.
[283] However, he also stated that the duo had in fact saved the club from bankruptcy, because they alone had contacted him only hours before the deadline for payment of the money for the opening of the insolvency proceedings, and asked for help.
[1]: 196 [300][240] Insolvency administrator Philipp Hackländer announced a lawsuit against the former members of the presidium Hans Reker, Emil Lindemann and Karin Halsch in April 2002.
[301] Board members Sommer and Bernt were met with great resistance due to their membership in Hells Angels,[298] which had a deterrent effect; and they failed to win any new sponsors.
[332] President Peters tried to reach agreements with the last remaining preferential creditors, one of them being Mario Maek, who decided to waive his claim for unpaid salary, in support of the club.
