FV Dresden 06 1939 as politically unpalatable under the Third Reich. It was re-established in 1945, following the end of World War II as "Sportgemeinde Laubegast" and became part of East German football competition in the Soviet-occupied part of the country. As was common in East Germany, the team went through a number of name changes play as "BSG Zeiss Ikon Dresden" (1949–51), "BSG Aufbau Dresden-Ost" (1951–65), and "BSG Pentacon Dresden". Throughout this period the club remained an undistinguished local side. The team was briefly known as "BSG Praktica Dresden" until the loss of their sponsor. On 13 December 1990, the footballers adopted
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden demonstration in Dresden, by 2010 this had grown to a "week of action" in which Nazis handed out leaflets and did little agit-prop actions. Thus in the following years Dresden had one small demonstration on the evening of 13 February or a day before organized by the "Freie Kräfte" and a big demonstration organized by the JLO on 13 February or the next Saturday or Sunday if 13 February was not on a weekend. On the radical left, political and ideological infighting between one faction then dominating in Dresden, the "Anti-Germans" and anti-imperialist and other anti-fascists, divided and preoccupied the