 The team was established in 1930 as "Sport-Verein Westende Laar" and by 1937 was playing as "BSG Bergbau Westende Hamborn".That season "BSG" won promotion out of the Bezirkskreise Niederrhein (II) to the Gauliga Niederrhein, one of sixteen regional first divisions established in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.They earned indifferent results there over the next three seasons and were relegated in 1941.