saturn have won four german championships and three national cup all the titles in the glory days of 80s. the main sponsor was since june 1977 fritz waffenschmidt, then owner of the saturn stores. the sale of the saturn stores on the kaufhof department store group in march 1984 it was the end of the funding for the club to the top basketball ended abruptly in cologne. attempts to financial cooperation with galatasaray istanbul failed miserably. the club 1989 renamed due to the cooperation in galatasaray cologne, introduced in 1990 for bankruptcy and had to stop the game mode. in 1993, the club was formally dissolved.