Academic sailing club in Greifswald

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The Academic Sailing Club zu Greifswald (short: ASV) is an academic sailing club in Greifswald-Wieck .

history

The first forerunners had existed since 1902, but the Academic Sailing Association in Greifswald was finally founded in 1908, with the approval of the Rector and Academic Senate of the University of Greifswald and at the instigation of Theodor Vahlen and Hermann Drahn. There were already some academic sailing clubs at technical universities, but the ASV zu Greifswald was the first academic sailing club at a German university. In contrast to the associations at THs, it had no corporate character, which, however, was beneficial to its popularity among the members of the university in retrospect, as it was thus possible for members of various associations to become members. Four years later, based on the same principles as in Greifswald, the ASV in Kiel was the second such association on the German Baltic coast.

Various regattas , especially with sailing clubs from Stralsund and Stettin , took place in the following pre-war years. The club was a co-founder of the Pomeranian Regatta Association. In particular, the ASV was involved in the organization of the Pomeranian Week , a regatta that enjoyed lively participation from 1911 to 1939 between Warnemünde and Stettin and during this time, along with the Kiel Week, was the most successful and best-known sailing event in the German Empire. In the interwar years there were ASV outposts in Stettin and Berlin. At the time of the First World War , the ASV was "closed" and club life came to a complete standstill , just as it did during the Second World War . After the end of the war, all clubs throughout Germany were dissolved, including the ASV. As everywhere in the GDR , company sports associations were established in Greifswald , and the university sports association was established at the university. The sailing section took over the boats that previously belonged to the ASV. Members of the ASV who had stayed in Greifswald helped set up the sailing section.

In 1968 former Greifswald ASV members founded the ASV Greifswald zu Lübeck . After the political change in 1990, the members of the sailing section left the university sports community and called themselves ASV zu Greifswald . At first there was considerable opposition from ASV Greifswald in Lübeck. Today there are friendly contacts and both clubs consider themselves to be the successors of the old ASV.

society

According to the association's statutes, the aim of the association is to "promote sailing as part of the academic life of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University (EMAU) Greifswald, with the primary involvement of the student body and young people".

The activities of the ASV include cruising and racing sailing as well as the sailing training of members and non-members. In 1932 the association owned two sea cruisers, a dinghy cruiser and a dinghy. Today the ASV zu Greifswald maintains four keel boats of its own as well as several dinghies and approx. 30 private keel boats.

The closer sailing area includes the Danish Wiek and the Greifswalder Bodden as well as the southern Baltic coast around the largest German islands of Rügen and Usedom .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the association in 2008 (PDF; 3.5 MB)
  2. ^ Henrik Eberle: "A valuable instrument": The University of Greifswald under National Socialism . Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22397-7 , pp. 12 .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '35.8 "  N , 13 ° 27' 2.5"  E