In the 1996/97 season, Hertha was promoted back to the Bundesliga in third place under coach Röber. His successor Falko Götz led Hertha to fourth place in the second half of the 2001/02 season and thus to the UEFA Cup again. For the 2004/05 season Falko Götz was again committed as a coach. Already in the second season of the league, and for the first time in history, there was a relegation game. From 1991 to 1997, Hertha BSC played as a "gray mouse" in the second division with an average audience of 3,000 die-hards at the beginning, which made for a desolate backdrop in the Olympic Stadium, which was much too large for the time. Kolmel Michael straight hard. This motive should not apply to Europe and its alternative "peace plans" to Iraq – as if highly cultural, thrifty and fundamentally peaceful Europe had no interest in the raw materials outside its borders. During the last three years of the war, Appel played as a "miracle striker" for Hertha, which somewhat improved his living conditions as a forced laborer – and in 1988, in his last major interview in Holland, he praised the camaraderie that prevailed in the club in those years and in which there was no difference was made as to the nationality of the players.

V. no winner could be determined. But it is significant that the Hertha club news, the most important source in this context, does not contain a single passage that can be used to prove anti-Semitic attitudes and derive Nazi hate speech. With a win in the last home game against Hannover 96 (0:0) they could have even reached 3rd place and thus qualified for the Champions League. Despite successes in the Bundesliga and participation in the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League in 1999/2000 (with wins against FC Chelsea and AC Milan), Jürgen Röber was released in February 2002 after six years. Nobody has been a coach at Borussia Dortmund for as long as Jürgen Klopp. Jock Stein was also a player at Celtic, but above all he went down in the annals of the club as a coach. Away from the football field, he secured professional prospects as a radio reporter and, when it seemed inevitable for the continuation of his radio career, also became a party member. Under his leadership, jersey shirt the team finished fourth. By the end of the loan, he had made a total of 22 Bundesliga appearances in which he scored two goals. Under his aegis, the team rose from the regional league to the second federal league in 1991, followed two years later by promotion to the handball federal league.

There he completed 32 games in his first season and scored seven goals. The forced relegation, the club's second after the 1918/19 season, triggered discussions and eventually a rethink at the DFB regarding such bonuses. In 1965, Hertha was able to save itself from relegation at the same rank, but was downgraded to the regional league by the DFB due to serious violations of the statutes. In the following games for the DFB championship, however, the Berliners were not able to assert themselves. To pay off the debt, the "Plumpe" was sold to a Berlin housing association that wanted to build residential buildings on the site. The "Plumpe" did not meet the necessary requirements for the Bundesliga, so Hertha BSC had to open against 1. FC Nuremberg played in front of 60,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium. Hertha BSC was initially denied a major role among the remaining Berlin clubs until 1957 when the first Oberliga championship was won. After two years in the second division and being promoted back to the Bundesliga, the Berliners ended the 1982/83 season in bottom place and were second-rate again.

On May 30, 1977, the replay final in the 1976/77 DFB Cup against 1. FC Köln was lost 0-1, after two days earlier at 1-1 n. Two years later, they also lost in the 1979 cup final against Fortuna Dusseldorf after extra time with 0: 1. In the 1979 UEFA Cup, Hertha BSC only lost 1-0 and 2-1 in the semifinals against Roter Stern Belgrade due to the away goals rule. The amateurs lost 1-0 to Bayer 04 Leverkusen after a goal by Ulf Kirsten. Later known players of the team were Carsten Ramelow and Christian Fiedler. Hertha BSC no longer existed under the original name, the players now competed with the players of SV Norden-Nordwest under the name "SG Gesundbrunnen", named after the Berlin district in the north section. The 1969/70 and 1970 seasons /71, the Berliners finished in third place.The comprehensive report for Bernd Schiphorst and the club was published in 2009 as a book entitled Hertha unter dem Hakenkreuz – ein Berlin Soccer Club in the Third Reich in the Göttinger Werkstatt Verlag.