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SV Stralau 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 district of Stralau in the city of Berlin
Berlin
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. The club was established in 1910 and part of the Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund
Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund
The Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund was a national German sports organization active between 1893-1933...

 (ATSB, en:Worker's Gymnastics and Sports Federation), a leftist national workers' sporting organization that was active from 1893–1933 until banned under the Nazi regime as politically undesirable. The ATSB staged a football competition and championship separate from that of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund, en:German Football Association) from 1920–33. Stralau beat Bremerhaven 93 (2:0) to advance to the 1925 ATSB final versus Dresdener SV 10 where they suffered a 7:0 drubbing.

The club eventually left the ATSB to join the mainstream DFB. In 1943-45, during the late stages of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, the team was part of the combined wartime side Kriegspielgemeinschaft Berolina/Stralau Berlin alongside Berolina-Lichtenberger Sportclub 01. Following the conflict, occupying Allied authorites banned most organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs, as part of the process of de-Nazification. The club was re-established in 1945 as Sportgruppe Stralau and played a single season in the short-lived postwar Stadtliga Berlin. It was renamed SC Berolina 1902 Stralau in 1948, before again renamed SG Berolina Stralau sometime in 1949.

On 21 August 1992, the team merged with Sportverein Eintracht Friedrichshain to form Friedrichshainer SV Berolina Stralau 01
FSV Berolina Stralau
Friedrichshaner SV Berolina Stralau 01 is a German association football club from the city of Berlin. It is the successor to Berolina Berlin which was formed 1 July 1901 as Berliner Fußball-Club Libertas-Südost Berlin. -Berolina Berlin:...

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