Club
Club history
1906 - 1920
In Oberschöneweide's Luisenstraße, players and friends of the club Excelsior gather in a sandpit behind the school in spring 1906 to found their sports club Olympia. After a short time, the connection dissolves again.
Some loyal friends soon establish a new alliance, inspired by the neighboring Lichtenberger S.C. Frisch Auf. Excelsior splits into Preußen and Vorwärts, both of which cannot survive. Members of all three clubs come together on June 17, 1906, at the inn "Großkopf" at Luisenstraße 17 to form Olympia Oberschöneweide.
On July 22, 1906, the footballers joined B.T.u.F.C. Helgoland 1897 as a youth team in the Oberschöneweide department. On February 10, 1907, discussions were held with the officials of B.T. and F.C. Union 1892 – German champions of 1905 – regarding a merger. The result of these talks with the blue-white team from southern Berlin was the formation as B.T. and F.C. Union 92 / Oberschöneweide department, with the team participating in competitions with youth teams and as the fourth team.
Confidently, the strengthened department separated from the parent club at the beginning of 1909. As a thank you to Union 1892, the blue and white colors were retained, and the word Union was included in the new club name. On February 20, 1909, the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs accepted the newly organized Oberschöneweide team. On March 14, 1909, they played their first friendly match. They lost to Berliner F. C. Sport-Union 05 with a score of 7-9. After a few more friendly matches, the team participated in the point competition of the Berlin association starting from September 12, 1909 in the A department of the third class.
At the general assembly held on November 6 and 13, 1909, the Unioner additionally founded an athletics department and subsequently appeared as S. C. Union 1906 Oberschöneweide starting in January 1910.
On 14 March 1909, they played their first friendly match. They lost to Berliner F. C. Sport-Union 05 with a score of 7-9. After a few more friendly matches, the team participated in the point competition of the Berlin Association in Division A of the III. Class starting from 12 September 1909.
At the general meeting held on 6 and 13 November 1909, the Unioner additionally founded an athletics department and from January 1910 they appeared as S. C. Union 1906 Oberschöneweide.
The first permanent venue and significant successes.
In their league, the 3. Klasse, the Unioner finished the 1910/11 season in first place and followed the leagues of the Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine, which emerged from the merger of the VBB with the Märkischen Fußballbund and the Verband Berliner Athletik-Vereine. They were promoted to the 2. Klasse, also reached first place here and achieved promotion, in the 1. Klasse 1912/13 they finished in second place, and the following year with first place in the table, they were promoted to the VBB-Verbandsliga, the highest league.
Meanwhile, the old playing area, the meadows used for football along the Spree between Kunheim- and Spreestraße, as well as later at Buntzelstraße, have been replaced by industrial facilities. The expansion of the industrial suburb Oberschöneweide and the sporting success, the promotion to the 1. Spielklasse, made it necessary to create a new home in 1913 – on the extended Wattstraße.
After finishing second in the 1916/17 season, Union is in first place in the 1919/20 series of the Verbandsliga table of the East Circle and subsequently also prevails in the championship class against the competition. Thus, Union Oberschöneweide wins the title of VBB champion and is therefore a participant in the battle for the national championship title.
In the quarter-finals of the finals for the German Championship against Sportfreunde Breslau, the 2-3 defeat meant elimination from the competition. With the third place in the following season, Union Oberschöneweide qualifies for the newly introduced VBB-Oberliga, the highest Berlin league at that time, where the players initially achieve the runner-up title.
