Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844

Additionally, the club offers five social-pedagogical facilities as well as a sports elementary school for children.

In 1844, the gymnastics club was founded by a medical student named Georg von Langsdorff.

The club was banned in 1848 for being a danger to the state, because a group of armed gymnasts and the founder, Georg von Langsdorff, were part of the Freischar involved in the Storming of Freiburg.

In 2001, the Freiburg district of Rieselfeld founded the new FT-sports kindergarten, which, by 2007, led to the first sports elementary school in Germany.

The largest sporting event the club has organised so far took place in Freiburg with the 54th Artistic roller skating world championship 2009, which featured about 1000 athletes representing 20 nations.

[5] Former Regierungspräsident, Norbert Nothhelfer (*1937), was elected president of the gymnastics club in April 2010, following the death of his predecessor, Conrad Schroeder, in 2006.

[7] In 1990, the club, in cooperation with the University Medical Center Freiburg, founded its first course offering for obese children as part of its pedagogical goals.

Furthermore, the club has a beach volleyball facility called the Dreisam-Beach, as well as a private swimming pool, which was renovated in 2011.

[10] On 13 December 1919, the SC Freiburg joined the FT 1844 and formed the sports club's football division, but kept the original name.

In 1952, following the dissolution and reformation of the FT 1844 following World War II, the football club became autonomous.