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{{short description|German football club}}
{{About|the football club|the ice hockey club also known as Berliner SC|Berliner Schlittschuhclub}}
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| chairman = Martin Maslowski
| manager  = Ekrem Asma
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| season   = 2015–16
| position = 13th
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'''Berliner Sport-Club''', commonly known as '''Berliner SC''', is a [[Football in Germany|German association football club]] based in [[Berlin]]. The team is part of a sports club which also has departments for badminton, hockey, and rugby.

== History ==
''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]]. By 1914 the club had over 2000 members and had added departments for hockey and boxing, as well as a section to accommodate American expatriates.

This growth continued through the 1920s when the ''[[Hertha BSC|BFC Hertha 92]]'' football team joined ''Berliner SC'' in 1923 to help fend off its own financial difficulties. The football department was then called ''Hertha BSC'', from 1926 to 1931 it reached the German championship finals, winning the title in 1930 and 1931. In 1930 Hertha again split off ''Berliner SC'' and after paying a compensation retained the ''[[Stadion am Gesundbrunnen]]'' venue as well as the ''BSC'' name affix. A handball department was formed in 1925, a [[Rugby football|rugby]] department in 1934. It was also during this period that a [[sports medicine]] committee was formed within the club which helped lead to the creation of a national sports medicine federation under first president and ''Berliner SC'' club member [[Werner Ruhemann]].

[[Lilli Henoch]] joined the Berliner SC athletics department after World War I. In the 1920s she set world records in the [[discus]] (twice), [[shot put]], and [[4 × 100 meters relay]] events, and won German national championships in shot put four times, 4 × 100 meters relay three times, discus twice, and [[long jump]].  She was Jewish, and after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, she and all other Jews were forced to leave the BSC, in accordance with the [[Nuremberg Laws]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|url=http://news.smh.com.au/world/berlin-ceremonies-mark-olympic-historys-darker-side-20080808-3s2j.html |title=Berlin ceremonies mark Olympic history's darker side |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=8 August 2008 |author= Simon Sturdee|access-date=2 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="la84foundation1">{{cite news |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1999/JSH2602/jsh2602e.pdf |author=Gertrud Pfister and Toni Niewirth |title=Jewish Women in Gymnastics and Sport in Germany; 1898–1938 |volume=26 |number=2 |work=Journal of Sport History |date=Summer 1999 |access-date=2 November 2011 |archive-date=7 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807220404/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1999/JSH2602/jsh2602e.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Paul|title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&pg=PA107|year=2004|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-903900-88-8|page=107}}</ref><ref name="ushmm1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680 |title=The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936 |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |access-date=29 November 2015}}</ref>

In the aftermath of World War II Allied occupation authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. When the formation of new associations was permitted again in late 1945 the formed membership of ''Berliner SC'' re-grouped as ''Sportgruppe Eichkamp''.

The club played two seasons in the Verbandsliga Berlin as a lower table side. In 2008 the club was relegated to the Landesliga Berlin but now plays in the [[Berlin-Liga]] again.

== Honours ==
===Football===
'''[[German football championship|German championship]]'''
* Champions: 1930 (as Hertha BSC)

===Basketball ===
'''[[Basketball Bundesliga]]'''
*Runners-up : 1953–54

===Field hockey===
'''[[Feldhockey Bundesliga (Men's field hockey)|German national title]]: 2'''
* 1937, 1937–38

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.berlinersc-fussball.de/ Official team site (football department)]
* [http://www.berlinersportclub.de/ Official website (sports club)]

{{Berlin-Liga}}
{{Landesliga Berlin Staffel 2}}
{{2. Rugby-Bundesliga clubs}}
{{Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga}}

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[[Category:1895 establishments in Germany]]