German Pupil Rowing Associations

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• Pupil Rowing Clubs and Squads of Schools
• Schüler RR im VDF des Leibniz Gymnasiums (Bad Schwartau)
• Schüler-RV Ernst Kalkuhl Gymnasium (Bonn)
• Schüler RC am Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium (Bonn)
• RR am Max-Planck-Gymnasium (Dortmund)
• Triton RV d. Realgymnasiums (Frankfurt / Oder)
• RAbt. Internatsschule Schloss Gaienhofen ( Gaienhofen / Bodensee)
• Gymnasial RV "Hamburg" am Wilhelm-Gymnasium
• Schüler RV Matthias-Claudius Gymnasium (Hamburg)
• RV Bismarckschule (Hannover)
• RV Humboldtschule (Hannover)
• TRV der Albert-Schweitzer-Schule (Kassel)
• ORC Wiking von 1908 (Kiel)
• RR Humboldtgymnasium (Köln)
• Schüler RV Gymnasialer TRV (Neuwied)
• Schüler RR Albert-Schweitzer-Schule (Nienburg / Weser)
• Schüler RR Ratsgymnasium (Osnabrück)
• Aldegrever RC (Soest)
• RC am Gymnasium Athenaeum (Stade)
• Schüler RV Wiking Vegesack
• Regional Associations of German Pupil Rowing Clubs
• Schülerruderverband Berlin
• Ruderverbände an höheren Lehranstalten (rowing associations of establishments of higher education)
• Hamburger Schüler-Ruderverband (HSRV) Hamburg Pupil Rowing Association
• HSRV Pennant
• HSRV Blade

• Traditional and Former German Rowing Clubs
• Flags of Sports Associations and Clubs (Germany)
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Pupil Rowing Clubs and Squads of Schools

Pupil Rowing Clubs in Germany are usually organised as squads (German: Riegen) annexed to a school, most of them grammar schools or other schools for a-levels, some of them boarding schools, and hosted by a local rowing club. A few of them are themselves full members of the German Rowing Federation (DRV).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Schüler RR im VDF des Leibniz Gymnasiums

Name: Schüler Ruderriege im VDF des Leibniz Gymnasiums
Located in: Bad Schwartau / Holstein
Established: 25 March 1949
The flag is parted per bend sinister of white and blue with inscriptions in counterchanged colours "R"(blue, upper hoist) and "S"(white, lower fly)
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Schüler-RV Ernst Kalkuhl Gymnasium

Name: Schüler-Ruderverein Ernst Kalkuhl Gymnasium
Located in: Bonn
Established: unknown
The green flag is separated by two thin white horizontal stripes, on fly between the stripes is a black inscription "EKG".
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Schüler RC am Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Name: Schüler Ruderclub am Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium
Located in: Bonn
Established: 9 May 1905
The blue flag is parted by an off-centred white cross. On its centre on a red lozenge fimbriated black is a white inscription "S"(1st line) and "RC"(2nd line).
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

RR am Max-Planck-Gymnasium

Name: Ruderriege am Max-Planck-Gymnasium
Located in: Dortmund
Established: 1899
The white flag is cotized red-white, inside parted by a red bend sinister and a white bend fimbriated red, on centre in white disc fimbriated red is a red 6-point star. On every quarter are red inscriptions as follows: "B"(top), "RR"(hoist), "MP"(fly) and "1899"(bottom).
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

"Triton" RV d. Realgymnasiums

Name: "Triton" Ruderverein des Realgymnasiums
Located in: Frankfurt / Oder
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
The blue flag was parted by a white bend charged with three blue 6-point stars.
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1888, no.26, p.278
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2026

RAbt. Internatsschule Schloss Gaienhofen

Name: Ruderabteilung Internatsschule Schloss Gaienhofen
Located in: Gaienhofen / Bodensee
Established: unknown
The flag is red with a centred blue cross embattled.
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Gymnasial RV "Hamburg" am Wilhelm-Gymnasium

Name: Gymnasial Ruder Verein "Hamburg" am Wilhelm-Gymnasium
Located in: Hamburg
Established: 17 June 1909

Gymnasial Ruder Verein "Hamburg" am Wilhelm-Gymnasium
The navy blue flag is parted by a white saltire. In the top quarter is a white "G", in the hoist quarter a white "R", in the fly quarter a white "V" and in the bottom quarter a white Hamburg castle.
Source: own photo shot on 22 Apr 2006
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Jan 2021

Schüler RV Matthias-Claudius Gymnasium

Name: Schülerruderverein Matthias-Claudius Gymnasium
Located in: Hamburg
Established: 1970
The white flag was parted by a blue centred cross, parted by a thin white centred crosslet. On upper hoist quarter were the city arms of Hamburg. On lower fly quarter was a blue inscription "SRV" and on centre on a white disc fimbriated blue was a stylised blue inscription "MCl" in bend.
Source: own photo of stick pin. This club was the predecessor of RV Wandsbek
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2026

RV Bismarckschule

Name: Ruderverein Bismarckschule
Located in: Hannover
Established: 5 May 1905
he flag was parted per saltire of white and red. The white triangles had black inscriptions "RV"(hoist) and "B"(fly)
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

RV Humboldtschule

Name: Ruderverein Humboldtschule
Located in: Hannover
Established: unknown
The blue flag is parted by a broad sinister-bendy white stripe with black inscriptions ordered per bend, one letter on every partition, reading "RVH".
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

TRV der Albert-Schweitzer-Schule

Name: Turn- und Ruderverein der Albert-Schweitzer-Schule
Located in: Kassel
Established: 12 June 1907
The white flag has a red stripe at top, blue stripe at bottom and a yellow 5-point star on centre.
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

ORC "Wiking" von 1908

Name: Oberrealschul Ruder Club "Wiking" von 1908
Located in: Kiel
School: Max-Planck Schule
Established: 1908
The white flag is parted by a light-green saltire.
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

RR Humboldtgymnasium

Name: Ruderrege des Humboldtgymnasiums
Located in: Köln
Established: 7 April 1905
The flag is parted per bend sinister of white and black. On canton is a red 8-point star.
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Schüler RV Gymnasialer TRV

Name: Schüler Ruderverein Gymnasialer Turn-Ruder Verein
Located in: Neuwied (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Established: 3 July 1882
It is a horizontal red over white over green tricolour. The white stripe is broader and contains black capital letters "GTRVN".
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Nov 2007

Schüler RR Albert-Schweitzer-Schule

Name: Schüler Ruderriege Albert-Schweitzer-Schule
Located in: Nienburg / Weser
Established: unknown
The flag is a yellow-red-black horizontal tricolour. At hoist on the yellow stripe is a black inscription "ASS".
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Schüler RR Ratsgymnasium

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Name: Schülerruderriege Ratsgymnasium
Located in: Osnabrück
Established: unknown
The flag is quartered of black and red. On a broad central white stripe is a white oar with black edges pointing to fly and superimposed by black Italics "RRR" (see left image above). The squad was formerly known as Ruderclub Ratsgymnasium. Thus another flag had the inscription "RCR" instead (see right image above).
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Aldegrever RC

Name: Aldegrever Ruderclub
Located in: Soest
School: Aldgrever Gymnasium
Established: unknown
Name giver is Heinrich Aldegrever> (1505 - 1561?), a painter and engraver, who worked and lived in Soest.
The flag is a red-white-red horizontal triband with black inscription "ARV" on the white stripe.
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

RC am Gymnasium Athenaeum

Name: Ruderclub am Gymnasium Athenaeum
Located in: Stade
Established: unknown
The blue flag is divided by a broad red centred cross fimbriated white with white inscriptions "R"(upper hoist), "C"(centre on a blue diamond fimbriated white) and "A"(lower fly).
Source: DRV flag chart version 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2026

Schüler RV "Wiking"

Name: Schüler-Ruder-Verein "Wiking"
Located in: Vegesack (nowadays Bremen)
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
The white flag was parted by a center black cross fimbriated red. The upper hoist quarter was a red-white-blue horizontal tricolour.

Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1914, no.38, p.641

Regional Associations of German Pupil Rowing Clubs

Schülerruderverband Berlin

The white flag is parted by a red centred cotized cross, in centre is a red rampant bear from the Berlin city arms in a white octagonal shield with red edges. In the canton are red initials "SR".
Source: Gunnar Staack: "Flaggen auf Berliner Gewässern", published in "Flaggenkurier No.25", pp.34-40, flag chart 10, row 2 column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Jan 2021

Ruderverbände an höheren Lehranstalten

(Rowing associations of establishments of higher education, i.e. grammar schools and other A-level schools, was the umbrella organisation of pupil rowing associations and was based in Berlin. The flag was parted of black over red by a broad white bend.
Source: Gunnar Staack: "Flaggen auf Berliner Gewässern", published in "Flaggenkurier No.25", pp.34-40, flag chart 10, row 5 column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Jan 2021

Hamburger Schüler-Ruderverband (HSRV)

HSRV Pennant

The black pennant is white at hoist charged with a Hanseatic cross.
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jan 2021

HSRV Blade

The blade is white charged with a Hanseatic cross.
Source: this webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jan 2021

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