article_snippet: One of those fathers, and seen as the most important, was Franz Jacobi, who in 1909 along with 17 others helped found our club -- and it is "Am Borsigplatz geboren:
article_snippet: Without 21-year-old Jacobi and his disciples, however, none of that success may have ever materialized.
article_snippet: Jacobi's DNA today still runs through the club that Jacobi helped to establish.
article_snippet: I think Jacobi would be proud of the club today.
article_snippet: We always need to struggle to survive in different periods, and I think maybe that's a legacy from Jacobi's time," Quambusch says of a club that was relegated in 1972 and narrowly escaped the same fate in 1986.
article_snippet: That was a very special moment for Jacobi -- Jacobi said it was a big moment for Jacobi and Jacobi was really proud," Quambusch says of Jacobi, who died 13 years later at the age of 90.
highlights_snippet: Jacobi helped form the football club in 1909 along with 17 others .