German Yacht Clubs (a)

Deutsche Segelclubstander (a)

Last modified: 2012-09-09 by klaus-michael schneider
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• ADAC Yacht Club
• Segel-Club Ahoi e.V. (Berlin)
• Segel Club Ahoi Schleswig
• Akademischer Segel-Club zu Berlin e.V.
• Akademischer Segler-Verein e.V.
• Akademischer Seglerverein der RWTH in Aachen e.V.
• Akademischer Segler-Verein Hamburg e.V. - bis
• Akademischer Segler-Verein in Kiel e.V.
• Akademischer Seglerverein zu Greifswald e.V.
• Akademischer Seglerverein zu Hannover e.V.
• Akademischer Yacht-Club Aachen
• Ruder-Club Aken e.V. (no image)
• Allgemeiner Hessischer Yacht-Club
• Alsterpiraten Club
• Seglerverein "Alt-Gaarz" e.V.
• Altmühltal-Segelclub 1970 e.V.
• Segler-Vereinigung Altona Oevelgönne e.V.
• American International Yacht Club Berlin e.V.
• Ammerlander Segel-Club e.V.
• Nautic Club Ammersee
• Yacht-Club Ansbach Gunzenhausen e.V.
• Segel-Club Argo e.V.
• Arnisser Segelclub
• Segler-Verein "Atlantic" e.V.

• Flags of Yacht Clubs Burgees (overview)
• Germany

ADAC Yacht Club(Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub)

Today the ADAC yacht club probably does no longer exist. My next door neighbour is employee of the club, she doesn’t know anything about the existence of the yacht club. Instead there are many other yacht clubs members of the ADAC, which is an automobile club.
Description of flag#1: It is a white triangular pennant, divided by a reddish Scandinavian cross with yellow and black fimbriation (colours of German national flag). The intersection point of crossbars is superimposed by a white roundel with red-yellow-black fimbriation containing a black eagle, surrounded by black capitals in German Fraktur script “ADAC”. The horizontal crossbar is shaped like an arrowhead at the flyend. In the upper hoist is a diagonal black anchor with a rope.
Source: Image redrawn from Jörg M. Karaschewski'sphoto

I was reading my car club newsletter where there is a report from 100 years of german national auto-club ADAC. It includes a photo from 50 years celebration held in 1953, showing president Theodor Heuss (first West German president 1949-1959, serving two terms) visiting ADAC. In the background there is a flag of ADAC, vertically displayed - white with black cotized Scandinavian cross on the center of which is a black bordered white disk with black displayed eagle between letters ADAC written in German Fraktur.

What strikes me as odd is that the flag has certainly a political connotation that I find unusual for 1953, though certainly this is not based on the Nazi flag, but the older Imperial banner. Is the flag still used?
Željko Heimer, 27 Jun 2003

An actual ADAC boatflag (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub, Munich, Germany) was just sold at eBay.
Jörg M. Karaschewski, 6 Jul 2003

Very much like what I saw in 1953 photo. Of course, there the flag was rectangular and without the anchor, but that is quite expected, right. The colours I was not aware, I assumed the "Prussian" cotized cross (i.e. like Imperial naval ensign), but obviously the cross is red with yellow and black borders.
Željko Heimer, 6 Jul 2003

Description of flag#2:
Its nearly the same like #1 but not ending in an arrowhead at the fly.
Source: I spotted this flag on 21 October 2007 in HH-Borgfelde

Segel-Club Ahoi e.V.

White pennant with a red saltire.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 Jun 2002

Segel Club Ahoi Schleswig

Segel Club Ahoi Schleswig e.V. (current flag)
It is a white pennant with a red cotized cross.
Source: club's website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2009

Akademischer Segel-Club zu Berlin e.V.

White pennant with a thin black triangle stretching from hoist to fly.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Akademischer Segler-Verein e.V.

Three blue-white-red triangles fitted into each other.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Akademischer Seglerverein der RWTH in Aachen e.V.

Black pennant with a yellow arrow pointing to the hoist.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Akademischer Segler-Verein Hamburg e.V.

A pennant quarterly divided by a white saltire, black-red-red-black.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Akademischer Segler-Verein Hamburg (bis)

Akademischer Seglerverein zu Hamburg
Description of flag: It is a white triangular pennant, divided in the middle by two blue parallel horizontal lines. Shifted to the hoist the lines are superimposed by a red sail over a white sail.
Source: I spotted this car sticker on 17 November 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Aug 2008

Akademischer Segler-Verein in Kiel e.V.

Red pennant with a blue chevron fimbriated white.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Akademischer Seglerverein zu Greifswald e.V.

Three red-white-red triangles fitted into each other.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Red-white-red are the colours of Greifswald.
Santiago Dotor, 3 Nov 2005

Akademischer Seglerverein zu Hannover e.V.

White pennant with five red-white-black-white-red (1:1:2:1:1) chevrons.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Akademischer Yacht-Club Aachen

Or Segeltechnische Arbeitsgruppe an der RWTH-Aachen e.V. - Green pennant with an orange arrow head pointing to the fly.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Ruder-Club Aken e.V.

Flag of the RCA also in this webpage.
Dov Gutterman, 26 Jan 2002

Allgemeiner Hessischer Yacht-Club

White flag with a red cross, the arms of Hesse in the canton and a blue anchor in the lower hoist.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

Alsterpiraten Club

Vertically divided red-blue, with a yellow disc stretching equally over the red and blue fields. The river Alster crosses Hamburg from North to South and is tributary of the Elbe.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

Seglerverein "Alt-Gaarz" e.V.

Pennant divided per saltire, blue-white.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 11 Jun 2002

Altmühltal-Segelclub 1970 e.V.

Horizontally divided red-white with a stylized A countercharged. Altmühltal is the valley of the river Altmühl, tributary of the Danube in Kelheim, between Ingolstadt and Regensburg.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

Segler-Vereinigung Altona Oevelgönne e.V.

Black pennant with a yellow Scandinavian cross. Altona is a part of Hamburg city.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 10 Jun 2002

American International Yacht Club Berlin e.V.

Blue field with three white-red-white thin vertical stripes at hoist, the letters AIYCB in white placed vertically in the red stripe, and a white eagle spreading its wings on the blue field.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

Ammerlander Segel-Club e.V.

Red flag with a big blue canton with a white thin diagonal stripe and a white star on each side of the stripe.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

The club is situated in Ammerland, a village on the south-east shore of the Starnberger See south of Munich.
Stefan Schwoon, 6 May 2002

King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in the Starnberger See in 1886. Whether it was an accident caused by his mental disorders or an assassination intended to end the independence of Bavaria remains controversial.
Ivan Sache, 6 May 2002

Nautic Club Ammersee

Nautic Club Ammersee (Bavaria) - Dark blue burgee with four triangles (with different shapes!) and a yellow steering wheel. Ammersee is a Bavarian lake located south-west of Munich.
Source: Club website.
Ivan Sache, 1 Jul 2002

Yacht-Club Ansbach Gunzenhausen e.V.

Red pennant with a white fly separated by a serration. Three stylized sailing boats (white sail over black hull) in the red field. Ansbach is located in Middle Franconia, west of Nuremberg, on the river Frankische Rezat. Gunzenhausen is located 20 km south-east of Ansbach, on the river Altmühl. The serration on the flag recalls the Franconian rake.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 19 Jun 2002

Segel-Club Argo e.V.

White pennant with a black border, divided by a black scandinavian cross. In the middle of the cross, a red disc including a white hexagram pointing towards upper hoist. Source: yacht club website.
Argo was the vessel on which Jaso and the Argonauts sailed to Colchis to capture the Golden Fleece. They succeeded with the help of the magician Medea. On the way back, Jaso abandoned Medea, who by revenge cut the throat of their children. The story inspired several writers such as Euripides, Seneca and Corneille, as well as the movie maker Pier Paolo Pasolini, with Maria Callas as Medea.
Ivan Sache, 5 Jun 2002

Arnisser Segelclub

It is a red pennant divided by a black saltire, which is in the centre superimposed by a white disc.
Source: I spotted this car-sticker on 18 February 2007 in Hamburg-Eilbek.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Feb 2009

It is Arnisser Segelclub e.V., first burgee on the list, here.
Website (note initials on the disk - they are not official it seems):
See p. 41 of pdf file for burgee history, here (click "Festzeitschrift Seiten 30 - 41"): Klaus-Michael Schneider was right - one of the many North German clubs.
Jan Mertens, 25 Feb 2009

Yacht- und Ruderclub Attendorn

It is a white pennant with 8 black trapeziums forming a centred cross. In the upper hoist is a red crescent with its horns facing the hoist. The pennant shows the coat of arms of the city of Attendorn.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,1 Jul 2007

Segler-Verein „Atlantic“ e.V.

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Nov 2008

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Nov 2008

Segler-Verein "Atlantic" e.V.
It is a yellow pennant, divided by a white cross, cotized black and white and shifted to the hoist. In the canton is a red Maltese cross cotized black with a disc in its centre with the small arms of Hamburg.
Source: I spotted this car sticker on 4 September 2008 in Hamburg-Borgfelde. Flag was identified with help by Jan Mertens.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,12 Nov 2008

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