During the inter-war period (1906–36) the club was a regular part of first division play and sent a number of players to north German representative teams.

The team was established by a group of students and young apprentices on 7 June 1903 and became part of the Hamburg-Altona Football Association two years later.

Club tradition has it that they qualified immediately for first division by way of a solid performance in a test match against a side made up of local English footballers.

By the turn of the millennium it included only 400 members and they entered into merger talks with Altona FC 1893, which ultimately failed.

After relegation to the tier nine Kreisklasse in 2012 the club won promotion back to the Kreisliga the season after where it plays today.