In 1936, SpVgg was joined by Sport Club Concordia Gera-Reuß to form SV Gera 04.

[3] Like other most organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs, Gera was dissolved at the end of World War II by occupying Allied authorities.

It was as Gera-Süd that the club returned to first division play in inaugural season of East Germany's DDR-Oberliga in 1949.

They made two single season cameo appearances in the top flight in 1966 and 1977 and struggled to distant last place finishes on both occasions.

After German re-unification in 1990, the club took on the name FSV Wismut Gera and was seeded into the NOFV-Oberliga Süd for the 1992 season.

At the end of the 2008–09 season, the club decided to revert to the name of BSG Wismut Gera.