German high seas sports association HANSA
| German High Seas Sports Association HANSA e. V. (DHH) |
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| purpose | Promotion of sailing, international youth exchange and member sailing |
| Chair: | Hans-Christian Bentzin |
| Executive Director: | Lutz-Henning Müller |
| Establishment date: | 1925 |
| Number of members: | > 16,000 |
| Seat : | Hamburg |
| Website: | www.dhh.de |
The German High Seas Sports Association HANSA e. V. ( DHH ) is a non-profit association that focuses on sailing training . It has around 16,000 members.
Field of activity
The association operates two sailing schools :
- the Hanseatic Yacht School (HYS) in the Quellental near Glücksburg on the Flensburg Fjord
- the Chiemsee Yacht School (CYS) in Harras in Prien am Chiemsee .
- The Yacht School Elba (YSE) in Portoferraio on the Italian island of Elba was given up in 2018.
- A training center at Steinhuder Meer , Lower Saxony, was given up in the 1970s.
The DHH fleet includes more than 200 boats , from simple training boats to large seaworthy yachts . The DHH employs around 30 permanent employees and 500 voluntary seasonal sailing instructors from its membership. He offers courses at the sailing schools for all sport boat pilot and sport boat licenses , correspondence courses (including radio certificates ), sailing holidays and training courses and organizes sailing trips in many areas around the world.
11 branches in Germany and one in Vienna are mainly devoted to theoretical training in winter; 18 sailing clubs organize sociable evenings. According to the association, 6,000 sailors take part in these events every year. After completing their training in the various practical and theory courses, over 1,200 participants successfully pass their sailing license exams every year.
The DHH is recognized as a non-profit organization. It promotes sailing, international youth encounters and member sailing. In 2011 he initiated the European Sailing Academies Cup, in which teams of instructors from renowned sailing schools compete against each other in regattas every year. As a sailing club, the DHH regatta group is a member of the German Sailing Association . The yacht school in Glücksburg is often the venue for the examination for the DSV sailing instructor license or for regattas as part of the German sailing league.
The DHH is financed from course fees, membership fees and private donations. The latter are primarily used to maintain or modernize the fleet of the company's own training ships and the infrastructure at the yacht schools. Large investments have been made in recent years with the acquisition of numerous yachts and modifications to the CYS; At the HYS, the construction of a new boat hall was completed in November 2017.
Both the club and its regatta group have been supported by the Eberhard Wienholt Foundation since 1997 . The foundation has set itself the task of promoting deep sea sailing in the field of training young people.
history
The club was founded in 1925 by Vice Admiral a. D. Adolf Lebrecht von Trotha , as 1st chairman, was founded as a clandestine "military sports training facility" of the Reichsmarine with funds from the Ruhrfonds and was part of the Reichsbund Deutscher Seegeltung from 1934 . Already in the early years, the training of German-minded young people was under the motto: "Absolute submission, loyalty to duty and punctuality". From 1933 the military training purpose lost its priority; the ladies sailing became more and more popularized, and the club built a close cooperation with the National Socialist Community Kraft durch Freude (KDF) on. The KDF organization had access to the DHH's sailing schools and ocean-going yachts, and in March 1938 the association was incorporated into Kraft durch Freude as a corporate body . Adolf von Trotha remained first chairman until 1940.
Even with the restart after the Second World War, the military training style was predominant until the 1970s. In the mid-1960s, Rear Admiral Bernhard Rogge was the first chairman of the association; From 1953 to 1958, the headmaster of the Hanseatic Yacht School was the former speedboat commodore Rudolf Petersen . As commanders of the Navy in May 1945, both were responsible for shootings in different cases. In 1974 the DHH protested against the assumption of a paramilitary training style: "That we are a detective association is complete nonsense, we haven't had the detective tone for a long time."
Self-presentation
When presenting its past, the DHH relies on a reputation-oriented , embellished image of history and regularly celebrates its respective anniversaries with the participation of the press; the Nazi era is skipped. Apparently, the club did not have to at this time " brought into line ", as shown in the club magazine The Blue Peter is alleged 2013, when in personal continuity of both the first chairman Adolf von Trotha and the Managing Director Rudolf Niemann Nazi party members were. Niemann was again managing director from 1956 to 1967. In apparently apolitical, selective retrospectives, these facts are still suppressed {Blauer Peter January 2019: “Whoever“ commissioned ”the DHH at that time does not say the chronicle. (I can guess - but that's another chapter in the history of the DHH.) "}. The assertion in the press release from July 2015 that the DHH was non-profit when it was founded is wrong - also a myth still cultivated by the association ; a military purpose is not one of the eligible goals. In contradiction to the facts mentioned, the press release on the occasion of its 85th anniversary on September 29, 2010 read: “To get young people in particular enthusiastic about sailing, to train them competently and to impart values to them with personality: these were the goals when the DHH was founded Year 1925. "
Publications
The association is the publisher of the book seamanship, manual for yachting . The first edition appeared in 1929 under the title Seemannschaft. Manual for sailors and motorboat drivers for lessons at the Hanseatic Yacht School Neustadt in Holstein . The 2nd edition from 1932 had the title addition "including terrestrial navigation". From the 8th edition in 1955, the subtitle was shortened to “ Handbuch für Segler” and in 1969, when the 13th edition was published, it was changed to “ Handbuch für den Yachtsport” . The 31st edition was published in 2016.
From 1960 to 1976, the DHH published the small manual of seamanship for inland sailors in six editions.
Blue Peter
Blue Peter is the association's magazine for members. It appears four times a year. The title is derived from the Blue Peter - the signal flag P - which, if a ship set it, announced that it would leave port within 24 hours - important for suppliers who still had outstanding debts and for crew members on shore leave. Since 2011, Der Blaue Peter has included the supplement Segeln extra or Segeln compact .
- 1925–1929: News from the German High Seas Sports Association Hansa e. V. or communications… . [5 years]
- 1930–1933: Blue Peter. Sailing and Maritime Magazine. Organ d. German Hochseesportverband Hansa e. V. and its yacht schools . [Years 6 to 9]
- 1934–1939: The flag . [counts as a parallel edition of the Blauer Peter , year 10 to 15]
- from 1953: Blue Peter . Authorized ISSN 0006-4637 . [2013 = 70th year; but the DHH is 68 years old in 2013]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Hochseesportverband Association HANSA eV www.dhh.de, accessed on 20 January 2019 .
- ^ Hanseatische Yachtschule (HYS): Portrait - The largest sailing school in Germany. In: www.dhh.de. Retrieved October 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Chiemsee Yacht School (CYS): Portrait. In: www.dhh.de. Retrieved October 31, 2016 .
- ^ DHH program 2017. Retrieved on February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ DIZK Organization Profile: Eberhard Wienholt Foundation. In: kulturfoerderung.org. German Information Center for Cultural Promotion, accessed on January 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Association brochure 1931 online
- ↑ The Flag 3, 1938
- ^ Hansa, Deutsche Schiffahrtszeitschrift 1934, p. 1355 online
- ↑ Yacht No. 19, 1925, p. 42 online
- ↑ Yacht No. 14, 1935 p. 6 online
- ↑ Rüdiger Hachtmann in Frank Becker , Ralf Schäfer (ed.): Sport and National Socialism. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1923-3 , p. 44
- ↑ Gerhard Mauz : You don't just sign something like that . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1965, p. 69 f . ( online ).
- ^ Gerhard Paul : The shootings in the Geltinger bay. in: Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein (Hrsg.): Democratic history: Yearbook for Schleswig-Holstein. Neuer Malik-Verlag, Volume 9, Kiel 1995, ISBN 3-89029-966-0 online
- ↑ Yacht 1974 No. 12 p. 112 online
- ↑ Der Blaue Peter 2013 No. 1 p. 34 online
- ↑ Yacht 1936 No. 3 p. 22 online
- ^ The flag 1935 No. 5 p. 2 archive.org
- ↑ Der Blaue Peter 2014 No. 4 p. 12 online
- ↑ 90 years DHH, 90 years HYS Glücksburg , message on the DHH website, now deleted, originally accessed on December 23, 2016
- ↑ §52 Tax Code