The club was established 8 March 1946 as the postwar successor to Eintracht 1908 Altenburg and was part of East German football competition.

The former membership of Eintracht was re-organized as Sportgemeinde Altenburg-Nord in early 1946 and they became part of the Landesliga Thüringen (I) as play was slowly resumed throughout the country.

[1] Altenburg was located within the Soviet occupation zone and as a consequence of emerging Cold War tensions with their former western Allies a separate football competition developed in what would become East Germany.

They narrowly avoided relegation that season by beating Anker Wismar 3:2 in a 12th place playoff and fared only slightly better in the next campaign when they earned an 11th-place result.

Today the footballers are part of the Thüringenliga (VI) after promotion from Landesklasse Ost (VII) in 2009, playing as a mid-table side.