It was formed in 1922 in what was at the time the Free City of Danzig (present day Gdańsk, Poland).

Banned by the Nazis in 1939, the club re-emerged following the end of World War II and is active today as Gedania 1922 Gdańsk.

In 1920, following World War I, Danzig and environs were separated from Germany through the Treaty of Versailles, becoming an autonomous city-state under a League of Nations mandate.

[1] The ethnically-Polish side was regarded as politically unpalatable to the Nazi regime and was disbanded on 31 August 1939, on the eve of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland.

[2] Some of the team's facilities were used by the German military sports club LSV Danzig during the war.