Bonn Rowing Society
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| Full name | Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft e. V. |
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| abbreviation | BRG | |
| Association headquarters | Elsa-Brändström-Strasse 74 53227 Bonn (Rhine kilometer 653.2) |
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| Founded | March 12, 1919 in Bonn | |
| Club colors | blue, black, white | |
| Training waters | Rhine | |
| Chairman | Bert Bauer Ines Held (Deputy) |
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| Members | approx. 610 | |
| Homepage | www.bonnerrg.de | |
The Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft (BRG for short) is a rowing club founded in Bonn in 1919 . He is based in the Beuel district on the right bank of the Rhine at Rhine kilometer 653.2 across from Villa Hammerschmidt . With over 600 members, it is one of the largest rowing clubs in Germany.
history
Beginnings 1919–1929
A few months after the end of the First World War , following a call in the Bonner General-Anzeiger and on the basis of personal invitations, several people from Bonn who were interested in rowing met in a restaurant in order to prepare the establishment of a civil rowing club. The talks were successful and on March 12, 1919, the Bonn Water Sports Club was founded in 1919 . After a year it had sixty members, in 1928 there were already 127. A green pennant with an octagonal white star was initially set as the club flag. It was soon replaced by a red star on a white field with black stripes.
As the supply has become a result of the economic crisis means that time arose disputes over the question of whether the Sculling or hiking Rowing priority should be given. They led to eleven members split off in 1923 and the Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft 1923 founded on September 14 of the same year . A diagonal green cross with the Bonn city coat of arms on a white background was chosen as the club flag . In 1928 this rowing club had 71 members.
The reasons for the split faded into the background, the rowers of both rowing clubs soon moved together again through the use of a common boathouse, so that at the beginning of 1928 considerations were made to reunite. After difficult negotiations, also accompanied by setbacks, the general meetings of both rowing clubs finally agreed to a merger. The founding meeting of the new club took place on January 24, 1929, in which 127 members of the Bonn Water Sports Club in 1919 and the Bonn Rowing Society in 1923 took part. They named the new rowing club after the younger part Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft 1919/1923 and took over the flag of the older part, which showed a red star on a white field with black stripes.
Merger 1975/76
In Beuel, which was an independent town until 1969, personal relationships with the Cologne Club for Water Sports contributed to the revival of rowing. They finally led to the founding of a rowing club, which was carried out on September 11, 1925 by 33 young Beuel citizens who were enthusiastic about rowing, with the significant participation of the Beuel bowling club “Stümper” . The club called itself Wassersportverein Beuel and set the flag as a black star in a blue field with black and white diagonal stripes. In 1962, the founding year was added to the club name, which has been Beuel since the water sports club in 1925 . At the beginning of the 1970s, the rowing club had around 200 members.
Good relationships had developed between the Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft 1919/1923 and the 1925 Beuel watersport club . They went on hiking trips together, trained together, visited each other's social events and finally held them together. The equally existing for both rowing clubs difficulty rowing racing training ended in November 1969. Finally, so that interested members of both organizations, the rowing association city of Bonn founded, for since 1970 the athletes of Bonner Rowing Society 1919/1923 and the water sports club in 1925 Beuel in regattas on started and achieved great success in championships. By the end of 1975, 215 regatta victories had been won.
The positive effects of this bundling of forces encouraged the board members of the Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft 1919/1923 and the water sports club 1925 Beuel to further deepen the already existing considerations of further cooperation and to discuss them in the general assemblies. The background for the Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft 1919/1923 was not least the fact that the boathouse in the Bundeshaus district on Stresemannufer was becoming increasingly inadequate, but the necessary improvements were not allowed to be made due to the existing change lock. After much consultation and discussion, a merger agreement was concluded on November 12, 1974, which laid down the modalities of the merger. The merger should take effect at the beginning of 1976. On November 18, 1975, an extraordinary general meeting of the water sports club 1925 Beuel resolved the dissolution of the rowing club on December 31, 1975. The Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft 1919/1923 changed its statutes in an extraordinary general meeting on December 5, 1975 to the requirements for the takeover of the new members with their previous rights. As with the merger in 1929, the name was retained, but the flag of the rowing club, a black star in a blue field with black and white diagonal stripes, was adopted. On January 1, 1976, the members of the 1925 Beuel water sports club were transferred to the rowing club, now known as the Bonn Rowing Society , which had 521 members and was one of the twelve largest organizations in the German Rowing Association . The first joint annual general meeting took place on January 30, 1976.
Branch on the "Schäl Sick"
At the beginning of 1975 the decision was made to build a new shared boathouse on the banks of the Rhine in Beuel on the " Schäl Sick ". The foundation stone was laid on July 11, 1975. On the day of rowing, May 16, 1976, the active members transferred the boats from the two previous boathouses to the newly built boathouse at Elsa-Brändström-Strasse 74, which was on June 26th It was inaugurated in 1976. The Bonner Ruder-Gesellschaft has developed well since then. In the anniversary year 2019 it had over 600 members.
The Bonn Rowing Society is one of the largest rowing clubs in Germany. In the official touring rowing statistics of the German Rowing Association, she also took top places in the group of large clubs in terms of kilometers rowed and achieved driving badges in the 2010s. In 2014 it was over 177,000 kilometers and 94 driving badges. The rowing club can also look back on successful participation in regattas in racing rowing. As of 2015, the Rurderverein achieved around 2,400 victories.