SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam player Gerhard Hänsicke became the top scorer of the 1950-51 DDR-Liga season with 18 goals.

[3][4][5][nb 1] All three would later become successful players in SG Dynamo Dresden and play internationally for the East Germany national football team.

The SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden had been chosen as an ideologically acceptable replacement of the dissolved SG Friedrichstadt.

[1] SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was severely weakened by player delegations and finished the 1951-52 DDR-Liga Staffel 1 on seventh place.

[6] Sports association SV Deutsche Volkpolizei decided to relocate its three second-tier teams in Potsdam, Weimar and Schwerin to lager cities during the summer of 1952.

The stadium was built in 1948-1949 and named after communist leader Ernst Thälmann, who was murdered by the Nazis in Buchenwald in 1944.