CLUB CHRONICLE
Club crest
from Bewag Berlin (1925) to FC Treptow e. V. (1994)
Club history
The association was founded in 1925 under the name Werksverein der Berliner Elektrizitätswerke Bewag AG.
The early years of the Berliners were characterized above all by sporting successes, but they were never able to compete against established top clubs such as Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin or Hertha BSC. The workers' sports club Bewag Berlin fielded strong lower league teams and was able to advance to the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/Staffel B in 1932. The following year, German football in the Third Reich was reorganized into 16 top regional leagues. The team was renamed SV BEWAG Berlin in 1932 and promoted to the Gauliga in 1936 together with SC Union Oberschöneweide (now 1. FC Union Berlin). BEWAG was included when part of the new Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, which only consisted of 12 teams in a single league instead of the 20 teams of the two Oberliga teams. In 1938 it was renamed SV Elektra Berlin and competed in the opening round of the Tschammer Cup, the forerunner of today's DFB Cup (German Cup). The SV finished in the middle of the table for the next three seasons before being relegated after finishing eleventh in 1941. It did not play again until the end of the war. After the end of the Second World War, in 1945, most sports and football clubs in Germany were dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities.
In 1949, the former club was re-founded as BSG BEWAG Berlin and renamed BSG Turbine BEWAG in 1950. The company sports club was never able to establish itself in higher-class GDR football and oscillated between the district class and the Berlin district league. Turbine was represented in the fourth- and, since 1963, third-class district league eleven times, the longest between 1959 and 1966.
They made their second cup appearance, this time in the opening round of the FDGB Cup, and were again knocked out in the opening round. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, BSG Turbine BEWAG was mainly a third division side in the fourth division before establishing themselves in the separate football competition that emerged in the GDR. In 1978 they took the name BSG Turbine Berlin and in 1984 BSG Turbine EKB Treptow.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a single national football competition was restored in 1990 and the club was given the name
SV Turbine Berlin.
In 1994, FC Treptow e. V. was founded when the football department of SV Turbine Berlin separated from the overall club and merged with the football department of BSG Lok Schöneweide to form FC Treptow e. V. The club was named after the former southeastern district of Treptow, which is the club's home. After the football department of the former GDR league club NARVA Berlin transferred to FC Treptow in 1996, FC Treptow took Narva Berlin's place in the Berlin regional league, which it held until 2001.
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Previous club names:
1925 - Foundation of BEWAG Berlin
1932 - Renamed SV BEWAG Berlin
1938 - Renamed SV ELEKTRA Berlin
1941 - 1945 no games
1945 - Re-foundation as Baumschulenweg sports group
1949 - Renamed Berliner SC Elektra
1949 - Renamed BSG Bewag Berlin
1951 - Renamed BSG Turbine Bewag Berlin
1978 - Renamed BSG Turbine Berlin
1983 - Renamed BSG Turbine EKB Treptow
1991 - Re-foundation of the club SV Turbine Berlin
1994 - Founding of FC Treptow e. V. (after the merger of SV Turbine Berlin and SV Lok Schöneweide)
1996 – The former GDR league club NARVA Berlin joins FC Treptow e. V.
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Statistics:
· Participation in Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg: Elektra 1936/37 to 1940/41
· Participation in the Tschammer Cup: 1938
· Participation in the FDGB Cup: 1949/50
· Turbine Bewag and Lok Schöneweide each 2x East Berlin Cup final
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Famous names:
· André Hofschneider
· Jürgen Nöldner
· Kurt Raue
· Gerhard Maychrzak (decades 2nd Chairman and temporarily 1st Chairman of the BFA Berlin)
· Karl Schönebeck (DDR-Oberliga-Schiri)
· "Kater"_ Manfred Friedrichs (23 years coach of the first men's team)
· Marco Köller (Junior European Champion, GDR Oberliga and Bundesliga player)
· Uli Netz (GDR top league player)