After the war the club restarted in the lowest possible division, the local C-Klasse but had to withdraw from league football once more from 1925 to 1928.

FC even had to leave the Southern German Football Association because of financial troubles caused by the hyperinflation in Germany.

In 1947 Sportfreunde resumed league football, now joining the A-Klasse and, in 1951, the club returned to its pre-war name FC Germania Friedrichstal.

[2] At this level Germania struggled, narrowly avoiding relegation in its first year but coming last in its second and dropping back down to the 2.

Amateurliga once more and thereby qualified for the Verbandsliga Baden, the new fourth tier of local football, below the also newly introduced Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

[4] The first couple of seasons in the Verbandsliga Germania spend as a lower table side but, from 1982, performances improved, culminating with a third-place finish in 1984–85.

In this time youth player Jens Nowotny left the club to join near-by Karlsruher SC and eventually rise to become a German international.