| 1991 | Torsten Gütschow | 1.FC Dynamo Dresden | 20 |
| 1990 | Torsten Gütschow | SG Dynamo Dresden | 18 |
| 1989 | Torsten Gütschow | SG Dynamo Dresden | 17 |
| 1988 | Andreas Thom | BFC Dynamo Berlin | 20 |
| 1987 | Frank Pastor | BFC Dynamo Berlin | 17 |
| 1986 | Ralf Strässer | 1.FC Union Berlin | 14 |
| 1985 | Rainer Ernst | BFC Dynamo
Berlin | 24 |
| 1984 | Rainer Ernst | BFC Dynamo Berlin | 20 |
| 1983 | Joachim Streich | 1.FC Magdeburg | 19 |
| 1982 | Rüdiger Schnuphase | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 19 |
| 1981 | Joachim Streich | 1.FC Magdeburg | 20 |
| 1980 | Dieter Kühn | 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 21 |
| 1979 | Joachim Streich | 1.FC Magdeburg | 23 |
| 1978 | Klaus Havenstein | BSG Chemie Böhlen | 15 |
| 1977 | Joachim Streich | 1.FC Magdeburg | 17 |
| 1976 | Hans-Jürgen Kreische | SG Dynamo Dresden | 24 |
| 1975 | Hans Vogel | Hallescher FC Chemie | 17 |
| 1974 | Hans-Bert Matoul | 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 20 |
| 1973 | Hans-Jürgen Kreische | SG Dynamo Dresden | 26 |
| 1972 | Hans-Jürgen Kreische | SG Dynamo Dresden | 14 |
| 1971 | Hans-Jürgen Kreische | SG Dynamo Dresden | 17 |
| 1970 | Otto Skrowny | BSG Chemie Leipzig | 12 |
| 1969 | Gerd Kostmann | FC Hansa Rostock | 18 |
| 1968 | Gerd Kostmann | FC Hansa Rostock | 15 |
| 1967 | Hartmut Rentzsch | BSG Motor Zwickau | 17 |
| 1966 | Henning Frenzel | 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 22 |
| 1965 | Bernd Bauchspiess | BSG Chemie Leipzig | 14 |
| 1964 | Gerd Backhaus | BSG Lokomotive Stendal | 15 |
| 1963 | Peter Ducke | SC Motor Jena | 19 |
| 1962 | Arthur Bialas | SC Empor Rostock | 23 |
| 1960 | Bernd Bauchspiess | BSG Chemie Zeitz | 25 |
| 1959 | Bernd Bauchspiess | BSG Chemie Zeitz | 18 |
| 1958 | Helmut Müller | SC Motor Jena | 17 |
| 1957 | Heinz Kaulmann | ASK Vorwärts Berlin | 15 |
| 1956 | Ernst Lindner | BSG Lokomotive Stendal | 18 |
| 1955 | Willy Tröger | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 22 |
| 1954 | Heinz Satrapa | BSG Wismut Aue | 21 |
| Siegfried Vollrath | SC Turbine Erfurt | 21 |
| 1953 | Harry Arlt | SC Einheit Dresden | 26 |
| 1952 | Rudolf Krause | BSG Chemie Leipzig | 27 |
| 1951 | Hans Schöne | BSG Rotation Babelsberg | 38 |
| 1950 | Heinz Satrapa | ZSG Horch Zwickau | 23 |
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