retired in the first round after a 1–6 defeat against FSV Frankfurt. The Gauliga Sachsen was inaugurated in 1933, and PSV Chemntiz finished third in their debut season 1933–34, behind Dresdner SC and VfB Leipzig. On 13 May 1934, PSV moved to a new stadium in Planitzstraße, later known as Stadion an der Gellertstraße, which opened with a 5–1 win in front of 25,000 spectators against SpVgg Fürth. In 1935 and 1936, PSV Chemnitz won the Gauliga Sachsen. In the final round of the German championship in 1935, the team made it to the semi-finals, but lost 2–3 against FC Schalke 04 at the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion. In 1935, PSV won the Saxon Cup, defeating Sportfreunde 01 Dresden 6–1 in the final. In 1943 the club was relegated from the Gauliga Sachsen. In 1944, they were promoted to the Chemnitz Gauliga, which was cancelled after three games in the 1944/45 season. Another highlight in the club's history is the 5–2 win against Real Madrid CF in 1934, in which the player Erwin Helmchen scored three goals. In the 1935–36 Reichsbundpokal (de), PSV won against Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen team in the final, with Helmchen scoring nine goals in total. In the 1936 German football championship group stage, PSV defeated Schalke 3–2 in front of 40,000 spectators in Dortmund's Stadion Rote Erde. However, Schalke managed to win 2–1 against PSV at Ostragehege to advance to the next round on goal difference. PSV was runner-up in the 1936–37 season, then third in 1938 and 1941, but it was no longer enough to make another entry into the final round of the German championship. Notable players Ernst Wilimowski, played four of his eight games for the German national team while at CPSV Erwin Helmchen, proficient all-time goalscorer Walter Rose Honours Central German football championship Champions: 1932 Gauliga Sachsen Champions: 1935, 1936 Saxon Cup Winners: 1935 Handball The field handball team became German champions in 1928 under the name of the Police Gymnastics Club Chemnitz-Gablenz, according to the version of the German Gymnastics Association. At the urging of DT, the handball department had to adopt the name "Police Gymnastics Club" for association policy reasons. Volleyball The volleyball players have been playing under the name CPSV Volleys Chemnitz since 2001 in the Second Bundesliga South. Literature Hardy Grüne: Vereinlexikon (Encyclopedia of German league football. Volume 7). 1st edition. AGON, Kassel 2001, , p. 107 Gerhard Claus, Mario Schmidt