Rasensport-Preußen Königsberg was a German association football club

Football in Germany

Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...

 from the city of Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

, East Prussia.

History

The club was established in 1905 as Sportclub Preußen 05 Königsberg. After a merger with VfR Königsberg in 1920 it took the name Rasensport-Preußen Königsberg.

In 1927–28 the club played one season in the top flight. In 1933, German football was re-organized into sixteen Gauligen under the Third Reich

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 and the club played first division football in the Gauliga Ostpreußen

Gauliga Ostpreußen

The Gauliga Ostpreußen was the highest football league in the Prussian province of East Prussia and the Free City of Danzig from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau East Prussia the Prussian province...

. The Gauliga was divided in two and later in four divisions. The team won the divisional title in 1937 and came close to becoming champions, but finished second in its group. Their top flight run ended in 1939. They didn't manage to come back.

The Königsberg club disappeared in 1945 following the conflict when the city was annexed by the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 and renamed Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

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