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Traditional and Former German Rowing Clubs

Deutsche Traditionsrudervereine und ehemalige Rudervereine

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Oct 2007
old pennant of the Deutscher Ruderverband (DRV, German Rowing Association)

Introduction
Alphabetical listing of all traditional clubs

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Introduction

The traditional rowing clubs, as they are called in RA04, had been denoted in RA77 as "rowing clubs, having formerly been located in Central- or Eastern Germany". Thereby it is understood that Central-Germany was the former DDR and Eastern Germany was the part, administrated after WW2 by Poland and the Soviet Union and later ceded to those countries.

In RA77 there had been fifteen clubs, in RA04 their remained only two clubs, those were Ruder-Club "Germania" Königsberg in Hamburg, which had been dissolved in 2006, as far as I know, and Ruderklub "Vineta" Potsdam e.V., which still exists and had more than 60 members in 2008.

All the traditional clubs were established by their members after WW2 living in West-German "exile" and always hoping to come back one day to their home towns.

There usually was a West-German club, I call it host, which was supporting a traditional club. If the host would be a person, you would call this person a godfather. The traditional clubs became members of German rowing association DRV and had their own members and their own boats, which were placed into boat houses of the hosts. Furthermore they got their proper domestic authority in their host’s boat houses. The information was provided by Werner Löffler, chairman of "Vineta" and Hans-Helmut Laser, the former chairman of "Germania" Königsberg.

When time was passing, those clubs ran out of members, which simply died. And therefore with one exception meanwhile all those clubs had been dissolved or merged perhaps with their hosts. The rowing clubs, having been located in former DDR meanwhile went back partially to their home towns, e.g. in Leipzig, Halle and Merseburg.

Some clubs had no official host or the name of host can’t be reconstructed today. I make a difference between established in and located in. The latter usually is the name of a West-German town. If the host is known, the name of the club is added.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 December 2008

Alphabetical listing of all traditional clubs

Source:
If source is not given explicitely, all information is available from the flag chart of : Rudersportalmanach 1977.

Bromberger RC "Frithjof"

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Dec 2008

Name: RC "Frithjof" Bromberg
Established in: Bromberg
Located in: Lübeck
Established: 16 May 1894
It was a white flag divided by a blue centred cross with a 6-point star of the same colour in the upper hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Dec 2008

RC Crossen

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Dec 2008

Name: Ruder-Club Crossen von 1885
Established in: Crossen/Oder
Located in: Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
Host: Ruderclub am Salzgittersee im SFS e.V.
Established: 12 February 1885
It was a blue over red horizontal bicolour with black inscriptions "R.C.Cr." in the upper half and "1885" in the lower half.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Dec 2008

RV "Nautilus"Elbing

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Dec 2008

Name: Ruderverein "Nautilus" e.V. Elbing
Established in: Elbing
Located in: Bremerhaven
Host: Bremerhavener Ruderverein von 1889 e.V.
Established: 19 April 1877
It was a 6-stripes flag with alternating horizontal blue and red stripes. There was a white canton divided by a black saltire with black capitals "R"(hoist), "V"(top), "N"(fly) and "E"(bottom). Please note that the colour of canton might be different, probably blue or red, but I haven’t any proof.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Dec 2008

RC "Möwe" Neusalz

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Dec 2008

Name: Ruder-Club "Möwe" von 1884 e.V. Neusalz
Established in: Neusalz
Located in: Offenbach
Established: 29 February 1884
The flag was divided five times per bend into white and blue with a red 6-point star, containing a black lower case "m" in the centre.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Dec 2008

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