 "Berliner SC" was created out of the merger of "Amateur-Sport-Club 1895" and "Sport-Club Berlin" founded by Carl Diem in 1896.The club was known as "Sport-Club 1895/1896 Berlin" until chairman Diem had its name simplified to the current form in 1905.In its earliest years "Berliner SC" was primarily an athletics club, though already from 1909 the football team successfully competed for the Berlin championship of the "Verband Berliner Athletik-Vereine" association and in 1911 joined the Brandenburg football championship.