Schalke 04 have a proud record as seven-times German Champions - albeit that the last of those championships came in 1958! 

Ebbe Sand - Bundesliga top scorer 2001

Indeed, all of those championship titles came in the period before the creation of the Bundesliga (1963/64).  At that time, the winners of all of Germany's regional leagues met in a knock-out competition to decide the ultimate national champions.  As you can see below, Schalke's real heyday was from the mid 1930s to the early 1940s.

Apart from Ebbe Sand (pictured right) who was the Bundesliga's joint top goalscorer in the 2000/2001 season with 22 goals, you also have to go back over a quarter of a century to find another Schalke player topping the goal scoring lists.  That was Klaus Fischer in 1976.  How long before a Schalke goal scorer does it again??

German championship - Winners
1934	Beat Nuremberg 2-1 in the final
1935	Beat Stuttgart 6-4
1937	Beat Nuremberg 2-0
1939	Beat Admira Vienna 9-0
1940	Beat SC Dresden 1-0
1942	Beat Vienna Wien 2-0
1958	Beat Hamburg 3-0
German championship - Runners-up
1933	Lost 3-0 to Düsseldorf
1938	Lost 7-6 (agg.) to Hanover
1941	Lost 4-3 to Rapid Vienna
1972 - Bundesliga	2nd to Bayern Munich
1977 - Bundesliga	2nd to Borussia Mönchengladbach
2001 - Bundesliga	2nd to Bayern Munich
German Cup Final - Winners
1938	Beat Düsseldorf 2-1
1972	Beat Kaiserslautern 5-0
2001	Beat Union Berlin 2-0
2002	Beat Leverkusen 4-2
UEFA Cup - Winners
1997	Beat Inter Milan 1-1 (4-1 on pens)
German second division - Winners	1982 and 1991