Weißenseer FC

The Weißenseer FC is a football club in Berlin, which has its headquarters in the Weissensee district.

Early years

As the first Weißenseer football club in the WFC was founded on September 8, 1900. After that, the team Märkischen the Football Association (MFB ) joined, whose championship they won in 1904. Three years later, a second place, but already in the following season they announced during the second half of the schedule of the MFB off to go to the Association of Berlin ballgame clubs ( VBB). There succeeded the Weißenseern 1909, the rise of the 3rd to the 2nd class and in the following year could win the Association Cup. In the highest class is increased, however, only in 1918, but could not keep it there and went down again in 1919.

1922 followed by a further rise and this time could Weissensee (with the exception of the season in 1926/27 ) hold until 1931 in the VBB Association league. During this time, the club developed by the additional inclusion of sports athletics, hockey and boxing to 1925 with 300 members to a for that time giants. With the introduction of the Berlin- Brandenburg Gauliga the WFC but was no longer competitive and played until the end of World War II no longer in the top flight. Thanks to its popularity pursued at that time still up to 8,000 spectators, the Games of the Association, from 1937 in the " arena on Lazy Lake ", now the stadium Buschallee.

GDR era

When in 1945 on the initiative of the Soviet occupying power all the civic clubs had to be resolved was based instead of the previous WFC sports community Weissensee East. Their football team was relegated in 1951 to the third-class city League East Berlin (later District League ), where she appeared under the new name ASV Weissensee. In the summer of 1953, a change of name in blue and white Weissensee was made ​​again. At the end of the season 1953/54, Blue-White dismounted, but reached already after a year 's re-emergence. In order to ensure the athletes a solid economic basis, the ASV 1956 walked into a Sports Association (SPA) and now stepped up in 1990 under the name BSG unit at Weissensee. By 1970, the football players commuted between district league and district class before they could hold in 1987 until the end of the GDR football in the district league.

Start-up 1990

As in East Germany also changed the economic system after the political changes of 1989, could not continue the BSG unit in its present form. Looking for a new financial source to an insurance institution offered that help in the fall of 1990 the new football club SG Eumako Weissensee was founded. 1991 promotion to the fourth-rate Berlin league. Since the financial commitment was limited only to two years, turned in the spring of 1993, once again the question of existence. As a way of connecting to the large SV Preußen Berlin was found in June 1993, which so far has no football department.

When the SV Prussia shortly thereafter merged with the bankrupt PFV Bergmann Borsig, the football player after DFB - law had the option to either take the place in the Oberliga Nordost (4th league) of the former PFV or to leave the club. Up to three key players all team members left the club, so the SV Prussia lost its league place again by descent at the end of the season. 1997 saw a further decline in the national league. As the financial situation was getting worse even when SV Prussia, the football department again left the club and founded in the spring of 1997 new original club Weißenseer FC. After overcoming some legal difficulties, the association was finally separated from the SV Prussia on October 1, 1997.

Since the new club barely had sufficient financial resources, the team only in 2000 increased in 1999 in the District League and in the county league from. Under the leadership of club president Ernst Konrad succeeded then to build up a pool of sponsors, the former East German Oberliga Judge Reinhard Purz to win as a coach and 13 new players to oblige you with some of regional and league experience. So successful 2002 re-emergence in the Berlin district league. In May 2011, merged the HSV Rot-Weiß Berlin with the Weißenseer FC. The name Weißenseer FC remained intact, making the national league team of the HSV Red-White launched under this name from the 2011/12 season. The previous first men's team of the WFC in district league started there as a second team.

Achievements

• Berlin master: 1904 ( in MFB )
• Berliner Cup Winners: 1910 ( in VBB)