After playing for both
Regatta Prag and
DFC Prag,
Heinrich Nonner decided to organize his own club and established
Unitas Prag in 1898. The club was soon renamed
Urania and then finally
Germania and quickly had its own field and clubhouse. Founder and captain Nonner attended the inaugural meeting of the DFB to represent the team. Early in its history the club played in the Verband der Deutschen Prager Fussballvereine (Federation of German Football Teams in Prague) and captured the league title in 1902. The next season, in one of a series of quirks of history that eventually led
DFC Prag to the first-ever German national final, that club was selected as the league's representative in the German championship round despite being tied with
Germania and a third club in the still incomplete VDPF championship. In 1903,
Germania abandoned Prague for the bordertown of
Graslitz to become
DFC Graslitz. When Germany joined
FIFA in 1904, Czech teams were no longer eligible for play in the DFB. FIFA rebuffed attempts to create ethnic German and Slavic football associations within the borders of the fractious Austro-Hungarian empire, preferring to stay clear of politics. These clubs became part of the domestic Czech league. After the annexation of the
Sudetenland by the
Third Reich in 1938 the club joined the
Gauliga Sudetenland, a top-flight division established to accommodate clubs in the region within the league structure of German football. Re-organized as
NSTG Graslitz (Nationalsozialistische Turngemeinde Graslitz or National Socialist Gymnastics Organization of Graslitz) in 1939 the team captured the divisional title in 1940 and went on to make an appearance in the preliminary round of play for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's
German Cup, being put out 0:4 by eventual cup winner
Dresdner SC.
Graslitz played only a partial season in 1940–41 and was then out of the
Gauliga until returning for a single season in 1943–44. The team folded after the liberation of Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. ==Honours==