Founded in 1903 as Sportclub Jugendkraft Nowawes the club was active until the end of World War II when it was disbanded by occupying Allied authorities.

The original club was established in Nowawes, a settlement which would become first part of Babelsberg and then of Potsdam.

German football was re-organized in 1933 under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions known as Gauligen.

On 1 April 1938, the club became SV 03 Neubabelsberg when their home village adopted a new name.

Play in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg came to an end part way through the 1944–45 season as Allied forces rolled through Germany.