The league was introduced by the
Nazi Sports Office in 1933, after the
Nazi take over of power in Germany. It replaced the
Oberliga as the highest level of play in German football competitions. The
Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was established with twelve clubs, ten from Berlin and two from Brandenburg. The Gauliga replaced as such the
Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg, the highest league in the region until then. The clubs from the Berlin/Brandenburg region were not particularly successful in the era from 1933 to 1945. No club reached a German championship or cup final. After
Hertha BSC Berlin having played in a record six successive championship finals from 1926 to 1931, this unsuccessful run was a definite decline for the football in Berlin. In its first season, the league had twelve clubs, playing each other once at home and once away. The league winner qualified for the
German championship while the bottom three teams were relegated. The season after, the league was reduced to eleven teams. In 1935–36, it operated with ten clubs and only the bottom two teams being relegated. This modus remained in place until 1939. In 1939–40, the league played in two separate groups of six teams with a home-and-away final at the end to determine the Berlin-Brandenburg champion. The 1940–41 season was played as a single division again, now with twelve clubs and the bottom four being relegated. The year after, it returned to the ten-and-two format of the pre-war days. This system remained in place for the 1942–43 and 1943–44 seasons. For its last season, 1944–45, it expanded to eleven clubs. The imminent collapse of
Nazi Germany in 1945 gravely affected all
Gauligas and football in the Berlin-Brandenburg region ceased in early 1945 with most clubs having played 13 of their 20-season games and the
Berliner SV 92 leading the field. ==Aftermath==