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The club was founded on 13 May 1906. At that time the club's name was "Sportverein
Strauss Döhren" including a reference to the village of Döhren in the outskirts of Hanover, Germany. In 1912 the club could buy its first own ground. During the 1st World War no rugby was played and 24 club members
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issued the "Directive 23-Limitation and
Demilitarization of Sport in Germany" which led to the termination of all German sports clubs. In Döhren only one club was allowed afterwards which served as the governing body for all sport activities. All three Döhren-based rugby clubs
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died in action. In
February 1919 the club was reinstalled and renamed to 'Verein für Rasenspiele e.V. Hannover-Döhren'. For a few months during 1919 association football was played during a cooperation with the football club "
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second team in the
Regionalliga but since then, the two clubs field a combined side in both the first and second team. The first team of this partnership plays its home games in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga at
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for the following season. n the 2014–15 season the club finished third in the north-east Liga-Pokal group and was knocked out by
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The club did not play in another national final after that for the next 25 years. In 1959, once more against RG Heidelberg,
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