The football team of SG Dynamo Berlin entered into the second-tier DDR-Liga in the 1952–53 season, after taking over the place in the league of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam.

SV Deusche Volkspoliziei Berlin had departments in several sports, including football, ice-hockey and boxing.

The team played its first match as SC Dynamo Berlin against BSG Rotation Babelsberg in the DDR-Oberliga on 21 November 1954.

SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen would offer a wide range of sports, such as football, speed skating, judo, athletics, gymnastics wrestling and swimming.

[10] SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen won promotion back to the DDR-Liga in 1959 and stabilized in the second tier.

SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen regularity featured promising young players of SC Dynamo Berlin, as well as retiring veterans of SC Dynamo Berlin, such as Herbert Schoen, Wolfgang Velebil, Harry Nippert, Klaus Thiemann, Jürgen Bräunlich, Christian Hofmann, Herbert Maschke, Joachim Hall, Jochen Carow and Günther Aedtner.

BFC Dynamo II immediately won promotion back to the DDR-Liga.

The qualification round was cancelled due to lack of participation from other teams, and SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Berlin was thus promoted to the DDR-Oberliga.

[14] The team immediately qualified for a new promotion round for the DDR-Oberliga after an unbeaten 1952–53 season.

SG Dynamo Berlin won the promotion round and thus had the right to participate in the 1953–54 DDR-Oberliga.

The players that were not delegated to SG Dynamo Weißwasser continued to play under their old name, but had to start over in the Bezirksliga.