 The original club was established in Nowawes, a settlement which would become first part of Babelsberg and then of Potsdam.In 1919, following World War I, "SC Jungendkraft" merged with "Fußball-Club Fortuna 1905 Nowawes" to form "Sportverein 03 Nowawes".German football was re-organized in 1933 under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions known as Gauligen.