CLUB CHRONICLE
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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 Berlin club were primarily characterized by sporting successes, but they were never able to compete with established top clubs like Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin or Hertha BSC. The workers' sports club Bewag Berlin fielded strong lower-league teams and managed to gain promotion to the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/Staffel B in 1932. The following year, German football under the Third Reich was reorganized into 16 top regional leagues. The team was renamed SV BEWAG Berlin in 1932 and, together with SC Union Oberschöneweide (today 1. FC Union Berlin), was promoted to the Gauliga in 1936. BEWAG was included when the new Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, which had previously consisted of only 12 teams instead of the 20 teams of the two Oberliga clubs, was restructured into a single league. In 1938, it was renamed SV Elektra Berlin and participated in the inaugural round of the Tschammer-Pokal, the precursor to today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup). The club finished mid-table for the next three seasons before being relegated after an eleventh-place finish in 1941. It did not participate in any further league play until the end of the war. After the end of World War II in 1945, most sports and football clubs in Germany were dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities.
In 1949, the former club was re-established as BSG BEWAG Berlin and renamed BSG Turbine BEWAG in 1950. The company sports club never managed to establish itself in the higher tiers of East German football and fluctuated between the Bezirksklasse (district league) and the Bezirksliga (regional league) of Berlin. Turbine played eleven matches in the Bezirksliga, which was the fourth tier and, from 1963, the third tier, with its longest stint between 1959 and 1966.
They competed in the cup for the second time, this time in the opening round of the FDGB Cup, and were again eliminated in the opening round. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, BSG Turbine BEWAG was primarily a third-division team playing in the fourth tier of German football, before establishing itself within the separate football competition that emerged in East Germany. In 1978, they adopted the name BSG Turbine Berlin, and in 1984, BSG Turbine EKB Treptow.
After the fall of communism, a single nationwide football competition was reinstated in 1990 and the club was given the name
SV Turbine Berlin.
FC Treptow e.V. was founded in 1994 when the football department of SV Turbine Berlin separated from the parent 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, where it is located. After the football department of the former East German league club NARVA Berlin transferred to FC Treptow in 1996, FC Treptow took over Narva Berlin's place in the Berlin state league, a position they held until 2001.
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Previous club names:
1925 - Founding of BEWAG Berlin
1932 - Renamed SV BEWAG Berlin
1938 - Renaming of SV ELEKTRA Berlin
No games were played between 1941 and 1945.
1945 - Re-establishment as the 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-establishment 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 – Former East German league team NARVA Berlin joins FC Treptow e. V.
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Statistics:
Turbine Bewag and Lok Schöneweide each reached the East Berlin Cup final twice.
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Prominent names:
André Hofschneider
Jürgen Nöldner
Kurt Raue
Gerhard Maychrzak (for decades 2nd Chairman and at times 1st Chairman of the BFA Berlin)
· Karl Schönebeck (East German top league referee)
· Marco Köller (Junior European Champion, East German Oberliga and Bundesliga player)