Academic rowing union

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Academic rowing union
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Founded 1904
Place of foundation Hanover
societies 4 or 7 frets
Members 1,100

The Academic Rowing Association (ARB) from 1904 is the umbrella organization for most of the rowing associations ( student associations ) in Germany.

The first rowing corporations were founded at a time when future academics and members of corporations had to attach great importance to social recognition. It was generally a social impossibility to present oneself in public in sportswear and shorts. Unimpressed by these circumstances, the first rowing communities were founded at universities and were thus the forerunners of the now very popular and recognized rowing sport at universities.

Then as now, great importance is attached to a young and fresh spirit, but also to stylish gatherings. Sport serves as a connecting element between the sometimes very different associations, clubs and associations. Rowing is still the focus today. The aim is to bring together autonomous and independent communities for cultural, sporting and intellectual exchange.

history

founding

The Rowing Federation was established on 15 October 1904, when in Hannover representatives

convened in a constituent assembly to resolve an amalgamation of most of the rowing corporations that existed at the time. From now on the address should be that of the boathouse ARV Berlin-Grünau in Grünau. The first board of directors of the ARB was cand. Iur. Hans Kuschel, who was also the chairman of the ARV Berlin-Grünau. There were a total of 560 members. Each cooperation had to pay a deposit of 20 marks with a semester fee of 1 mark.

On April 1, 1906, the following associations belonged to the ARB:

The board of directors changes annually among the associated corporations according to the age of the latter.

German Empire and Weimar Republic (1904–1933)

After the establishment of the ARB in 1904 as the umbrella organization of the rowing associations in Germany, the member corporations both rowed intensively and fought intensively. The member unions of the ARB had as a weapon student principle the unconditional satisfaction on heavy sabers, with the fencing of lengths only took place in the winter semester in order not to be deprived of the fruits of rowing training. In the early days of the ARB it did not really succeed in acquiring new member associations, but rowing took place all the more, and various regional and supra-regional regattas were won by the member associations, above all the ARV zu Berlin .

In 1914 a solemn meeting of all ARB groups took place in Bamberg , at which a festive regatta was organized. After the First World War , more precisely between the years 1924 and 1932, the ARB was in its prime. So the rowing connections from Hamburg , Danzig , Königsberg , Frankfurt am Main and Cologne could be won as new member associations. The ARB groups also played a not insignificant role in their university towns in the social life of the Roaring Twenties . In 1927 the first solemn meeting of the rowing corporations took place on the Hohensyburg in Dortmund , which was to be repeated annually from then on.

The rowing association was composed of the following associations and clubs:

  • Academic rowing club "Rhenus" Bonn (1890)
  • Academic rowing association "Westphalia" Münster (1891)
  • Academic Rowing Club in Berlin (1895)
  • Academic Rowing Association Berlin-Grünau (1891)
  • Academic rowing association "Angaria" Hanover (1902)
  • Academic rowing association "Rheno-Frankonia" Frankfurt (1919)
  • Academic Rowing Club Hamburg (1920)
  • Academic rowing association "Borussia" Cologne (1921)
  • Academic Rowing Association Danzig (1904)
  • Academic rowing association "Alania" Königsberg Prussia (1901)
  • Academic rowing association "Markomannia" Leipzig (1903)

National Socialist dictatorship (1933–1945)

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the ARB gradually disintegrated. In 1934 the ARB tacitly suspended itself instead of being incorporated into the NS student union.

Occupation and the Bonn Republic (1945–1990)

Around 1945 the idea of ​​the ARB was taken up again, especially through the ARB Stammtisch Rhineland-Westphalia in Essen, which had been in existence since 1906.

Due to a meeting on February 24, 1951 in Essen, the ARC "Rhenus" was then arranged to convene a founding meeting in 1951. In 1951 the ARB could be re-established in Hanover . However, after the Second World War, the ARB did not return to its old size, which is mainly due to the fact that most of the former rowing associations were not reconstituted as associations, but became civil rowing clubs. The members listed in the statutes of January 1, 1957 were only:

  • ARC "Rhenus" Bonn (1890)
  • ARV "Westphalia" Münster (1891)
  • ARC in Münster (1960)
  • ARC zu Berlin (1949) (united ARV Berlin-Grünau (1891), ARC zu Berlin (1895))
  • Academic rowing club Kiel (1897) (became ARB member on December 9, 1951)
  • ARV "Angaria" Hanover (1902)
  • ARV "Borussia" Cologne (1921)
  • Academic rowing club Bochum (1966)
  • ARV "Rheno-Franconia" Frankfurt (1919)
  • ARV "Alania" zu Hamburg (1958) (combined ARV "Alania" Königsberg Pr. (1901), ARV Danzig (1904), ARC Hamburg (1920))

The last official federal agency was established in 1971. In the years since 1971 there have been repeated efforts to revive the ARB beyond personal friendships.

Berlin Republic (1990-today)

The ARB only exists de jure , but lives on because of the acquaintances and the shared history. Above all, personal friendships shape the exchange between the member associations. With sometimes longer, sometimes shorter breaks, the tradition of joint ARB hiking trips in the individual summer semesters is still alive today.

present

Nowadays (2009) there are not many active rowing associations of the ARB any more, as most of them have become civil associations or no longer have any activities. The member unions which still appear as a connection and have an activity are: the ARC "Rhenus" Bonn (1890), the ARV "Westphalia" Münster (1891), the ARV Kiel (founded 1897), and the ARV "Alania" in Hamburg. The ARV "Alania" in Hamburg was founded in 1958 by the ARV "Alania" Königsberg Pr. (1901) and the ARV Danzig (1904) and the Academic Rowing Club Hamburg (1920). The ARC zu Berlin (founded in 1891) is now a non-profit association. Currently (2009) the ARV Rheno-Franconia Frankfurt (1919) and the ARV Angaria Hannover (1902) are member unions without activity or in a phase of orientation, whether they want to appear bourgeois or corporate . The only member federation that wears colors from the connections at that time and does not prohibit hitting is the ARV "Westphalia" Münster . Women are accepted as full members by all the confederations with the exception of the ARV "Westphalia" Münster and the ARV "Alania" in Hamburg.

In spite of the differences, after a few quiet years, overall life is stirring again. Meetings are held for cultural, sporting and intellectual exchange: Joint ARB rowing trips, members of the Bünde maintain visits to events or trips to the respective university locations. In the 2013 summer semester, the ARV Westfalen organized an ARB weekend in Münster for the first time, with the aim of initiating an annual meeting of the ARB Bünde. In 2014 the event took place at the ARC "Rhenus" Bonn. This was followed by 2016 at ARC / ARV Berlin, 2017 ARC "Rhenus" Bonn, 2018 ARV "Westfalen" Münster , 2019 ARV "Alania" in Hamburg.

Current member associations

  • ARV "Westphalia" Münster (1891)
  • ARV "Alania" zu Hamburg (1958) (combined ARV "Alania" Königsberg i. Pr. (1901), ARV Danzig (1904), ARC Hamburg (1920))
  • ARC "Rhenus" Bonn (1890)
  • ARV Kiel (1897)
  • ARC zu Berlin (1949) (combined ARV zu Berlin-Grünau (1891), ARC Berlin (1895))
  • RG "Angaria" Hanover (1902)
  • RV "Rheno-Franconia" Frankfurt (1919)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon (1907): Overview of the associations existing at German universities in 1907. Retrieved on March 16, 2010.

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