German Yacht Clubs (k)

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• Kaarster Segel Club e.V.
• Segelsportclub Kahl e.V.
• Kaiserlicher Yacht Club
• Wassersportverein Kaltehofe (Hamburg)
• Segelclub Karolinenhof e.V.
• Seglergemeinschaft Kassel e.V.
• Post Telekom Sport Kiel/Kronshagen
• Segler Vereinigung Kiel
• Kieler Yacht-Club e.V.
• Kirchhellener Seglergemeinschaft e.V.
• Wassersportclub Kollmar
• Köner Yacht Club e.V.
• Konstanzer Yacht-Club e.V.
• Segelclub Krüpelsee e.V.

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Kaarster Segel Club e.V.

Red pennant with three white rectangle triangles overlapping two by two.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002

Segelsportclub Kahl e.V.

Yellow pennant with a shield and SSC (big) KAHL (small) in blue letters beside the shield. The shield is diagonally divided by a white wave and shows in its left part a white [hare] on blue and in its right part a white half-wheel on red. The chief is blue with KAHL AM MAIN in white. Curiously enough, a rabbit is considered as a malediction on board, probably because it was able in the past to cause serious damage to food reserves. The arms seems to show a hare rather than a rabbit. Hares are perfectly able to swim, so the hare on the arms is not off-topic. Kahl is located on the confluency on the rivers Kahl and Main, east of Frankfurt.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 7 June 2002

The burgee image in the yacht club website appears to show the SSC-KAHL lettering as black rather than blue.
Santiago Dotor, 6 October 2005

Kaiserlicher Yacht Club

see Kieler Yacht-Club e.V.

Wassersportverein Kaltehofe

Wassersportverein Kaltehofe e.V., located in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort. It is a very light blue (FIAV-Code B--) pennant with a yellow "K" shifted to the hoist and touching the edges of the pennant.
Source: spotted on 9 December 2006 in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,1 Jul 2007

Segelclub Karolinenhof e.V.

Blue pennant with a white stripe forming a horizontal Y fimbriated white and blue, and the letters S C K in white forming a triangle near the hoist. Karolinenhof is a part of Berlin located on the Dahme Langer See, in former East Berlin.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 17 May 2002

Seglergemeinschaft Kassel e.V.

Blue pennant with a broad yellow chevron and a vertical yellow stripe placed along the hoist. (...)
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 9 June 2002

Post Telekom Sport Kiel/Kronshagen

Post Telekom Sport Kiel/Kronshagen; Abt. Segeln. Its pennant is blue with a yellow chevron pointing to the hoist.
Source: I spotted a car sticker on 20 April 2007 in Hamburg-Borgfelde
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2009

Segler Vereinigung Kiel

Segler Vereinigung Kiel e.V.
It is a marine blue pennant, divided by a horizontal white stripe being broader at the fly. Shifted to the hoist upon the white line is the coat of arms of the city of Kiel.
Source: I spotted this car-sticker on 9 January 2007 in Hamburg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Jul 2007

Kieler Yacht-Club e.V.

According to this website, this yacht club was founded as Marine-Regattaverein in 1887, became the Kaiserlicher Yacht-Club (KYC) in 1891, merged with other Kiel sail clubs into the Yacht-Club von Deutschland by the nationalsocialists in 1937 and refounded as Kieler Yacht-Club in 1946. More information (and current burgee) at the Kieler Yacht-Club website and its club history webpage.

White field with a black Scandinavian cross fimbriated red. The municipal flag of Kiel uses red, white and black but the relationship between the municipal flag and the yacht club burgee is less than evident.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002

Norie and Hobbs 1971 shows under figure 317 the ensign of Kaiserlicher Yachtklub von Deutschland, as the German flag 1871-1918, but with a rope oval around the emblem, fitting both arcs.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001

The current burgee (see Kieler Yacht-Club website) is very similar but omits the imperial crown.
Santiago Dotor, 10 June 2004

Kaiserlicher Yacht Club

Brief history:
The club was located in Kiel. It was established in 1887 as a naval racing/regatta association, changed into a yacht club in 1891(?). The club was pushed after the opening of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Kanal (today: internationalized Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), which ended near Kiel. The club had ca. 1400 members in 1900 and more than 3100 in 1910. The club suffered heavily under WW1, when many members died in service at the armed forces.
Afterwards the club was under pressure of national socialist rule to merge with the other Kiel yacht clubs in order to form the Yacht Club von Deutschland. To avoid merging the club decided its self-dissolution in 1936. Only a few of its members joined the YCvD.
In WW2 there was a repetition of the situation after WW1. The boat house was used since 1945 by the British Kiel Yacht Club. The Kaiserlicher Yacht Club re-established itself in 1945 as Kieler Yacht club, regained its boat house and the former enemies became friends.
Source: www.wikipedia.org

Description of burgee:
The burgee was the same like that one of Kieler Yacht Club, but a golden imperial crown, which was abolished in 1937, was superimposing the centre of cross.
Source: sig12, flagchart 27(row 6; column 3)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2009

Kaiserlicher Yacht Club - ensign

Description of ensign:
It is an Imperial German merchant ensign, black over white over red horizontal tricolour, with a badge in its centre. The badge is a white oval exceeding to both outer stripes and fimbriated by a yellow rope. In the upper half of the oval is the imperial crown with two scarves, in the lower half an upright anchor with a s-shaped rope and superimposed by a shield showing the imperial eagle in a golden(=yellow) field. All elements are yellow.
Source: Ströhl 1999,opp.p.84, chart XXI, fig.II
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Oct 2009

Kaiserlicher Yacht Club - commodore burgee

Description of commodore burgee:
It is a white swallow tail flag, divided by a black cross, fimbriated red. The cross is slightly shifted to the hoist. Upon the centre of cross is a yellow imperial crown. This flag was in fact the personal flag of HM Emperor Wilhelm II.
Sources: [sig12], flagchart 27(row 6; column 1); [stl99], opp.p.84, chart XXI, fig.III
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2009

Kaiserlicher Yacht Club - vice commodore burgee

Description of vice commodore burgee:
The same like Commodore burgee, but a red ball is added in the upper hoist. This flag was in fact the personal flag of HRH Prince Heinrich of Prussia.
Sources: [sig12], flagchart 27(row 6; column 1); [stl99], opp.p.84, chart XXI, fig.IV
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Oct 2009

Kirchhellener Seglergemeinschaft e.V.

Green pennant with a stylized white sailing boat, whose sail is charged with a green tree (?). Kirchhellen is located on the north-western edge of the Ruhr area, close to the Kirchhellener Heide or Kirchhellen Moor. The tree (?) shown on the burgee might be a species common in the Kirchhellen Moor, possibly a pine.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002

Wassersportclub Kollmar

Wassersportclub Kollmar e.V.
It is a vertical divided green-white-red pennant. The white part is forming an ancle pointing to the hoist.
Kollmar is part of Amt Herzhorn /Pinneberg county /Schleswig-Holstein, located on the north bank of river Elbe.
Source: I spotted this flag on 8 June 2007 in front of a pub in Kollmar.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Jul 2007

Kölner Yacht Club e.V.

White pennant with two black and red triangles placed on the hoist and a red eight-pointed star placed in the white field. Red and white are the municipal colours of Köln.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002

Konstanzer Yacht-Club e.V.

White pennant with a black Scandinavian cross, a red stripe placed along the hoist and the letters KYC in black inscribed in a white oval fimbriated black placed over the cross. Lake Constance (German Bodensee) is shared by Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 10 May 2002

Segelclub Krüpelsee e.V.

Horizontally divided blue-red with the letters S C K in white forming a triangle inscribed in a white disc. Lake Krüpel is formed by the river Dahme, southeast of Berlin.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 17 May 2002

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