In 1905, the then Württemberg King Wilhelm II acquired the Skidbladnir sailing yacht . She was built in Max Oertz's shipyard in Hamburg and sailed under the royal flag on Lake Constance . In 1915 Wilhelm II donated the yacht to the Red Cross , which it then sold to a merchant from Friedrichshafen. After that, the owners changed several times and it was converted from a single- masted gaff cutter to a two-masted yawl . Heinrich Seidl, the founder of the first inland sailing school in Germany, acquired the ship in 1936 and made it the flagship of his Ammersee sailing school. When Stefan Marx acquired the sailing school in 2002, the Albatros also became part of his portfolio. The Albatros has also had an engine since 2016.
The albatross today
The Albatros was completely overhauled in winter 2004/2005. A new teak deck and the saloon were on the program of the boat, which now has over 100 years of history. The Albatros is still regularly sailed for pleasure and for events on the Ammersee . They can be rented for business parties, weddings, etc.
↑ In the detailed documents of the archives of the House of Württemberg from the preparation of the purchase contract to its conclusion, there is no reference to a donation from the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. King Wilhelm II is (also in the shipyard documents) the client, debtor of those paid by the court Rates, recipient and first owner of the yacht.
^ Letter from the Württemberg Regional Association of the Red Cross to the Oberhofmarschall dated December 10, 1917 in the archive of the House of Württemberg, Altshausen: Court authorities
