Elektra Berlin was a German association football club from the city of

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and was a predecessor of current-day club ''

FC Treptow FC Treptow is a German association football club from the city of Berlin and is the successor to ''Werkverein der BEWAG Berlin'' which was established in 1928 as the worker's sports club of the city's electric utility Bewag Aktiengesellschaft.G ...

''. The club was the team of the city's power utility workers, established in 1928 as ''Workverein der BEWAG Berlin''. It was renamed ''Sportverein BEWAG Berlin'' on 28 January 1937 before being again renamed ''SV Elektra Berlin'' on 3 October 1938. The club was lost on 11 May 1942.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. .

History

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, ''BEWAG'' played first division football in the Oberliga Berlin (1932–33) and the

Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg The Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest football league in the provinces of Brandenburg and Berlin in the German state of Prussia from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative region ...

(1936–38). After being renamed ''Elektra'' they played three more seasons (1938–41) in the top-flight competition. The team took part in the Berliner Pokal (Berlin Cup) in 1930, where they went out in the quarterfinals to ''

BSV 92 Berlin Berliner SV 1892 is a German association football club from the district of Wilmersdorf, Berlin. ''BSV'' is one of the country's oldest clubs and was a founding member of the DFB (German Football Association) in 1900. The club also operates a r ...

''. They also took part in the opening round of the Tchammerspokal, predecessor to today's

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(German Cup), in 1938. After the dissolution of the team in 1942, a successor side known as ''Sportgemeinschaft Baumschulenweg Berlin'' eventually emerged in the latter half of 1945. In June 1949, ''SG'' was broken up into ''Berliner Sport Club Elektra'' and ''Baumschulenweger Sportverein Grün-Weiß Neukölln''. ''BSC'' became '' Betriebssportgemeinschaft Bewag Berlin'' in September 1949 before being renamed ''BSG Turbine Berlin'' in 1950. The club became part of the separate football competition that emerged in Soviet-occupied

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. ''Turbine'' played largely as a fourth division side with occasional brief forays into third tier competition. With

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in 1990, ''Turbine'' joined ''Lok Schöneweide'' to create present-day side ''

''.

References

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