 In November 1946, the club was re-established as "SG Giebichenstein", becoming "SG Genossenschaften Halle" in May 1949, and "BSG Empor Halle" in 1951.The club played anonymously in the lower divisions of East German football over four-and-a-half decades, making only a single-season cameo appearance in the second division DDR-Liga in 1981–82.After German reunification in 1990 the team played in the seventh tier Berziksliga as "SV Empor Halle" where they won the division championship and earned promotion to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt (VI).