Academic sailing association in Berlin

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The Academic Sailing Association e. V. (ASV) in Berlin is one of the oldest sailing clubs in Germany with around 300 members (as of 2019). He is one of the founders of deep sea sailing in Germany and is still committed to this tradition today. The current ocean-going yacht Walross IV represented Berlin at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 . The club is a member of the Association of Academic Sailing Clubs .

history

Ten students from the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg founded the Academic Sailing Association on January 7, 1886. The establishment is confirmed four days later by the rector of the university. Right from the start, the association has focused on three main principles:

The life union principle expressed that the ASV saw itself as a student association . However, that sport (and especially sailing ) should be the connecting element was more than unusual in the Berlin and also in the German corporate landscape at the time.

The young and still quite small club achieved considerable sailing achievements very early on. In 1888 the association's first ocean-going ship, the Matador , was the first German sailing yacht to reach Stockholm. In the same year the ASV founded the German Sailing Association (DSV) together with nine other clubs .

In 1896, after changing accommodations at Stößensee , the association bought the property on Scharfen Lanke , which is still the association's headquarters today. A year later, it was decided to purchase Prosit II as the successor to the company's first seaworthy yacht. The new building was based on the design and at the shipyard of ASVer Max Oertz , who later built the imperial Meteor yachts . In 1898 the ship was put into service.

In the same year, the association also bought two houses in the center, on Englische Strasse. One of them served the association, also due to the proximity to the university as a town house, in which the students met for lunch and other social gatherings.

In 1914 the Neptun shipyard in Rostock was commissioned to build Prosit III ; However, when the First World War broke out , the new building was initially put back. In 1919 Prosit III was finally completed and transferred to Berlin via the Oder . The boat made numerous sea voyages on the Baltic Sea , North Sea , Skagerrak and Kattegat in the 1920s .

From 1933 the ASV was seized by National Socialism. All student connections were forced to fit into the National Socialist community. Through the simultaneous membership in the ASV eV and the comradeship “Ernst Lehmann” of the NS student union (named after the ASVer, who died in 1938 as captain of the Zeppelin “ Hindenburg ” in the crash in Lakehurst / USA) imposed by the National Socialists ) Club as one of the few corporations to preserve its character as a sports club and association and to avoid dissolution.

In 1957 the association bought a steel ship and renamed it Walrus II . The financing came from the sale of the old Walrus I and the property in Englische Strasse. In 1969 the association put the new Prosit IV building into service. The ship was used for training on the Havel. It was the largest sailing boat in Berlin. Walrus II went on a trip to Svalbard in 1972, which was awarded the Schlimbach Prize .

In 1974 the ASV bought the 55 Swan Jan Pott and named it Walross III in the tradition of its boats . Ocean sailing in the club took on new dimensions and two years later the ASV sailed across the Atlantic and back for the first time to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the USA . In 1975 the club decided to include women in the ASV with immediate effect.

In 1981/82 the Walross III was the only German yacht to take part in the Whitbread-round-the-World-Race . In 1987/88 the ship and crew were Berlin's ambassadors for Australia's 200th anniversary . In 1992 the ship took part in the Columbus regatta. In addition to the constant sea voyages on the North and Baltic Seas, the Walros III sailed again in 1999/2000 and 2002/2003 across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and via North America back to Europe .

Ocean yacht walrus IV

Walrus IV at Lendy Cowes Week 2017

After the sale of Walrus III in 2005, the club did not have a sea-going boat for a year. The historical training yacht Prosit IV made several trips to the Baltic Sea. In 2007 the new ocean-going yacht Walross IV , which was built in Berlin and Glückstadt , was completed. The maiden voyage led across the Atlantic and Pacific to Beijing to represent the city there as Berlin's ambassador. On the return trip took Walrus IV at the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race part and rounded Cape Horn . This was followed by participation in the Baltic Sea Challenge of the Academic Sailing Association in Kiel (2011, 2013), the Cowes Week and the Rolex Fastnet Race (2011 and 2017), the St. Maarten-Heineken Regatta (2012), the Rio Regatta Horta-Hamburg of the Hamburgische Verein Seefahrt (2016) and the 50th Rolex Middle Sea Race (2018).

In addition, the association carried out many trips on all oceans, for example in 2012 and 2013 across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, 2014 to Iceland, 2015 in the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg and Haparanda , in 2016 across the Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro and back and 2018 and 2019 to the Mediterranean .

Regattas

The ASV annually organizes the Max Oertz Prize in honor of Max Oertz . In addition, every year in June, the Havel Klassik, the largest classic regatta in the German inland area, is organized. In addition, dinghy regattas such. B. the Fuxjagd, a regatta for sword migratory birds , organized by the association.

Known club members

Individual evidence

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