SC Dynamo Berlin finished its first season on seventh place. The team was successful in the transitional 1955 season, but suffered relegation to the DDR-Liga in the 1956 season. SC Dynamo Berlin immediately secured promotion back to the DDR-Oberliga and later won its first trophy in the 1959 FDGB-Pokal. The team defeated SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt in the two-legged final. The first leg ended 0–0, but the second leg was won 3–2, with two goals scored by Christian Hofmann and one penalty goal scored by Günter Schröter. Günter Schröter was a key-player of SC Dynamo Berlin during the 1950s and early 1960s. He became second placed league top goal scorer in the 1955 and 1959 season. Günter Schröter scored all five goals for SC Dynamo Berlin in the 5–0 victory over SC Lokomotiv Leipzig on 10 May 1959.