they won their first honours in 1913 as champions of the local c division bezirk koblenz. in 1919, fv captured the b division title and then won promotion to top flight regional competition in 1923. in the early 30s the team took part in qualification play for the gauliga mittelrhein, one of sixteen top-flight divisions formed in the 1933 reorganization of german football under the third reich, but was initially unsuccessful, losing to 1. fc idar. by the 1941–42 season, the gauliga mittelrhein had been split into the gauliga köln-aachen and the gauliga moselland, where engers played in the gruppe ost for three seasons as a lower table side until the division collapsed towards the end of world war ii.