| Competition: | DDR-Oberliga |
| Season: | 1951–52 |
| Winners: | BSG Turbine Halle |
| Matches: | 342 |
| Total Goals: | 1233 |
| League Topscorer: | Rudolf Krause, Kurt Weißenfels (27)[1] |
| Attendance: | 3,620,000[2] |
| Average Attendance: | 10,585 |
| Prevseason: | 1950–51 |
| Nextseason: | 1952–53 |
The 1951–52 DDR-Oberliga was the third season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by 19 teams and BSG Turbine Halle won the championship, the club's second one after 1949.[3] [4]
Rudolf Krause of BSG Chemie Leipzig and Kurt Weißenfels of Lokomotive Stendal were the league's joint top scorer with 27 goals each.[5] The season also saw the most goals ever scored in the history of the Oberliga with 1,233, 55 goals more than the previous one.[2]
The 1951–52 season saw the highest spectator number of any DDR-Oberliga season with a total of 3,620,000, in line with the record number of season games played, 342.[2]
The 1951–52 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Wismut Aue and Motor Wismar while SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig was newly formed and admitted to the league.[6] SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig would change its name to SV Vorwärts der HVA Leipzig later in the season.[7]