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| Full name | Fortuna Babelsberg e.V. |
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| Founded | 1905 |
| Ground | Sportanlage Am Stern |
| Capacity | > 1,000 |
| Chairman | Hartmut Domagala |
| Trainer | Manuel Brunow |
| League | Landesklasse Brandenburg-West (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | 2nd |
Fortuna Babelsberg is a German football club from the south-eastern part of the city (Am Stern) of Potsdam in Brandenburg. A former East German side, they currently play in the Landesklasse Brandenburg-West, the eighth tier of the German football league system.
The history of the club begins with the 1906 establishment of Concordia Babelsberg. The club was lost in 1933 when left-leaning worker's sports clubs were disbanded under the Third Reich. A side more politically palatable to the regime was formed in 1934 as VfL Eintracht 06 Babelsberg. This club was also in its turn lost in the aftermath of World War II when organizations across Germany, including sports and football associations, were dissolved by occupying Allied authorities.
After the war a separate football competition emerged in the Soviet-occupied eastern half of the country. Sportgruppe Babelsberg was formed in 1946 out of the former memberships of VfL and SpVgg Potsdam. The Potsdamers established a separate side known as SG Karl Marx Babelsberg in 1948. SG Babelsberg then went on to capture a division title in the Landesliga Brandenburg-West in 1949. On 11 July that year SG became part of Betriebbsportgemeinschaft Märkische Volksstimme Babelsberg which was itself formed only months earlier on 26 May 1949. The new club joined the top-flight eastern competition known as the DDR-Oberliga for the 1949–50 season.
Sport in the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR; commonly East Germany) was subject to manipulation for political purposes, and like other football clubs there, the team would undergo a number of name changes and restructurings. On 30 October 1950 the team was renamed BSG Rotation Babelsberg and affiliated with the country's printing and publishing sector. In 1952, the club merged with BSG Rotation Babelsberg-Ost which had originally played as SG Kinostudio Babelsberg. Through most of the 50s Rotation remained in upper tier play where they earned mid-to-lower table results.
The 1950–51 season was marked by the outstanding individual performance of Johannes Schöne who scored 37 goals, a DDR-Oberliga record that was never broken. Three Babelsberg players earned caps with the national side in the course of the decade. The side made several appearances in FDGB Pokal (East German Cup) tournament play, with their best result being an advance to the semifinals in 1951.
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