Located in the Soviet-occupied quarter of Berlin, SG formed a football department that was part of the separate competition that emerged in East Germany.

[1] The economic importance of the operation helped the Wilhelmsruh club grow quickly and saw the formation of football, hockey, tennis and other departments in the 1950s.

The most successful section were the archers, who excelled both nationally and internationally, and who included Rose Marie Grzondziel, seventeen time East German champion.

Bergmann-Borsig won the city championship in 1977 and advanced to the second division DDR-Liga where they would remain a lower-tier side until finally relegated in 1983 following a last place finish.

The footballers left their parent sports club to form a separate side and following their Bezirksliga Berlin title took part in the final season of play in the DDR-Liga in 1989–90, as it became the transitional NOFV-Liga.