Cologne Rowing Society 1891

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Cologne RG 1891
Logo Cologne RG 1891
Full name Cologne Rowing Society 1891 e. V.
abbreviation KRG
Association headquarters Uferstrasse 16
50996 Cologne
(Rhine kilometer 682.3)
Founded May 15, 1891 in Cologne
Club colors blue White Red
Training waters Rhine (White Arch)
Otto-Maigler-See
Chairman Ulrich Bartelt
Wolfram Pohler (Deputy)
Members 135
Homepage www.krg1891.de

The Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 (KRG for short) is the second oldest rowing club in the city of Cologne . The boathouse and club area of the traditional KRG, which is currently involved in popular sports , is located directly on the left bank of the Rhine in the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne . In addition, the KRG uses the Otto Maigler Lake, originally created for regattas , as a training water and maintains teams in other sports.

history

Beginnings

The KRG's last floating boathouse, before 1925.

Today's KRG probably emerged from a rowing club formed in 1886 around the former Rhine swimmer Bernhard Potthast, who not only recruited his colleagues from the academic milieu or the bourgeoisie , but also (extremely untypical for the time) from the working class . In 1891 one of the founding members was a craftsman, the master painter Conrad Ahl. Other active rowers came from the recently dissolved RK Union Cologne 1875 .

Starting with six or seven founding members, two of its own four-mans without booms and a covered raft as a boathouse on the right bank of the Rhine in the Cologne district of Deutz , the KRG had around 20 active rowers when it was accepted into the German Rowing Association in 1898 . When the entry in the register of associations finally took place in 1907, the KRG had over 100 members. As early as 1906, the KRG had its first sporting successes under the leadership of the top performer Jupp Krüll. In 1913 she was one of the founding members of the Cologne Regatta Association . Thanks to the increase in members, the rowing club first moved to Cologne's inner city Rheinauhafen and then to a new floating boathouse on the left bank of the Rhine in the Cologne district of Marienburg . A sporting rivalry also developed with the newly founded rowing clubs RTK Germania Köln and Kölner CfW , which were attracting increasingly active rowers and, due to their more elitist appearance, represented competition for the KRG anyway.

Interwar period

Reception of the German Master Eighth of the KRG from 1927 at Cologne Central Station.

After the First World War , in which many members lost their lives or fled Cologne, attempts were made to gain new members by moving to a larger boathouse. For this one had a former under Chairman Adolf Küas bathhouse acquired completely rebuilt and a Bootsmeisterei , a bowling alley and a banquet hall equipped (to provide during the club sessions for mood that KRG maintained in 1925 its own orchestra, including vocalists with up to 50 Members). At that time, the KRG not only owned one of the largest boathouses in Germany, but was also able to hire its own trainer for the first time, Gustav Gehrmann, who had the boat fleet extensively modernized and purchased the first motorboat owned by the association. In order to secure the sports facilities financially, they founded their own stock corporation .

Under the new sporty line, the KRG took on regattas and 1928 numerous victories in different boat classes and became so beside the Berliner RC , the Bremer RV 1882 and the Mainzer RV 1878 the leading competitive sport rowing clubs in the interwar period. In 1925 the so-called Cologne City Eight was won for the first time , the regional regatta of all rowing clubs located in the Cologne Bay (the KRG achieved seven victories in total). In the same year they formed with students from various high schools in Cologne a first student team , for the presence of the then mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer two new racing boats were baptized. The women who have been active in the KRG since 1910 also founded their own women's team under the direction of Emmy Rockstroh in 1927, which years later grew to 59 members ( although initially they were only allowed to participate in style rowing).

Front boathouse of the KRG on the Uferstraße, with catering on the upper floor.

Overall, the KRG experienced its most successful racing years in the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties . In the four without a helmsman, the KRG won the silver cup at the German championship in Hanover in 1925 , while the overall victory was celebrated the following year at the German championship in Schweinfurt . The eighth of the KRG initially achieved second place in his discipline in the same year. The overall victory of the German championship and thus gold was finally achieved in Schwerin in 1927 with Martin Schwingeler, Jürgen Stange, Hermann Wassenberg, Alfred Preuß, Max Horster, August Berges, Hans Großmann, Fritz Streck and the helmsman Carl Braschoss. A figure eight formed together with the Cologne RV 1877 missed the podium at the German championship in 1928. This had also been organized as a qualification for the Olympic Games in Amsterdam .

The global economic crisis put an early end to the sporting highs of the KRG. There was a lack of funds for new material, the remuneration of the instructors and the urgent renovation of the dilapidated boathouse. In 1931 the KRG had to sell a large part of its property and moved its rowing boats to a makeshift barrack . In 1926 the KRG had an impressive 358 active members, in 1935 there were only 79 who could afford the luxury of membership in a rowing club. In order to counteract the threatened decline of the KRG, the company merged in 1937 under the leadership of Max Sutter with the young Cologne RK 1931 , which also involved moving into the club's premises in the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne, which still exists today.

post war period

Rudder blades in the club colors of the KRG.

During the Second World War , the boathouse was not only looted, but also bombed due to its proximity to the Rodenkirchen Bridge . In addition, the KRG had lost 11 of its active rowers on the war fronts. In 1945 the rowing club was temporarily banned by the Allies according to the occupation statute.

In the post-war years, however, the KRG succeeded in reactivating club life quickly from 1947 onwards, under chairman Jupp Zorn, who, in Ido Franke, also brought a woman to the board for the first time. Not only were their own trainers hired again, but the boathouse was gradually restored between 1949 and 1960 and additional buildings were added ( Franz Meyers, at that time Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, attended the inauguration ). The new conditions brought the KRG to win the German championship in Hanover in 1954 in the lightweight four with helmsman Herbert Höner and the rowers Günter Wallerstein, Rudolf Keller, Heinrich Haeckel and Herbert Schilling. In the following years, the KRG won third place in the German championships in the lightweight eighth in 1956, second in the lightweight quad with helmsman in 1959, third in the lightweight quad without helmsman in 1960 and second in 1961, and second in the double scull in 1968.

In 1968, the newly elected board of directors under Richard Gassen finally allowed women to become active full members, although the rowers of the KRG had already celebrated considerable successes in regattas in the two decades before. The second place in the double scull and the third place in the double quad at the German championship in Hanover in 1961 are worth mentioning. The latter formation also won third place in the double quad at the German championship in Mainz the following year. Thanks to the reform, women now had full voting rights, were able to use all of the club's rowing boats and take part in mixed trips. The KRG women's team was only able to get a significant third place at the German championship in 1999 (in the lightweight four without helmsman, also consisting of rowers from the Kettwig RG 1906 and the Neuss RV ).

From 1970 onwards, the KRG concentrated primarily on promoting young talent and until 1978 used the regatta track in the Cologne district of Fühlingen for training in addition to the Rhine . New active rowers came mainly from the Rodenkirchener Gymnasium, founded in 1965, due to a specially trained group of students. Teachers such as Hans-Martin Siebert or Jürgen Borkowski, who were also members of the KRG, participated in the training. Both the seniors and the youngsters, especially under the care of the renowned trainer Helmut Lohbeck, have won almost 1000th victories in regattas at home and abroad in over three decades. In 1992, the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded the KRG the sports badge for the special services it had acquired over many years in the care and development of rowing in Germany . The young rowers of the KRG finally celebrated their greatest victories around the turn of the millennium, among other things in 1998 with two German championships, in four and double fours, as well as a European championship in ergo rowing .

present

Boat halls with workshop in the club courtyard of the KRG.

Due to increased personnel and financial requirements in competitive sports, the KRG has dedicated itself exclusively to rowing as a popular sport since 2012. Thanks to a partnership with the Hürth RG , the KRG uses not only its home route on the Rhine, which leads along the Weißer Bogen to the Sürther boathouse , but also the Otto Maigler See in Hürth in the Alstädten district there for its training units. Especially here the regular training for beginners takes place.

For the 125th anniversary of the club, the KRG organized for the first time on the suggestion of its chairman at the time, Ulrich Bartelt, the so-called Kölnvierer , a local regatta for mixed-sex teams from all rowing clubs in Cologne's urban area on the left and right of the Rhine. In addition to the hiking Rowing operated within the KRG since its founding in 1891, also the Ergo rowing wins for several years increasing popularity. At year by the Cologne RV 1877 and partly in cooperation with the ASV Köln discharged Ergocup the KRG is regularly successfully represented.

Thanks to the existing tennis court on the club's premises , the KRG has a tennis department with its own trainer, sports pedagogue Wolff Wienands, which has been active since 1967 , and a basketball department that plays in the club's own sports hall and occasionally takes part in leisure tournaments . Since 1983 exists within the KRG further a loose paddle squad , with private kayaks the Ville Lakes uses and various tributaries of the Rhine. Weight training and gymnastics complete the offer of the KRG thanks to the appropriate rooms on the club's premises.

Sports hall of the KRG on Mettfelder Straße.

The catering facility, which is housed in the company's own boathouse in Rodenkirchen, and two seminar rooms are operated by external third-party providers. The rowing clubs RV Schwarzer Adler and RK Preußen Köln , which the KRG had housed for years, as well as the academic rowing association ARV Borussia in Cologne , disbanded between 2017 and 2020.

Successes (selection)

Only podium placements in official German championship races without junior competitions are listed.

Known members

Publications

In addition to the Club releases , an up to 50-page magazine for members around the club events and rowing as a popular sport, which appeared in 1988 on a quarterly basis and is published twice a year since 2003, the KRG has the following Commemorative published:

  • Jupp Zorn (Ed.): Commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the Cologne Rowing Society 1891 , 34 pages, Nordland, Lüneburg 1951
  • Hans Großmann (Ed.): 75 Years of the Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 , 128 pages, Schertgens, Cologne 1966
  • Heinrich Witt (Ed.): On the 90th anniversary of the Cologne rowing society 1891 , 43 pages, EV, Cologne 1981
  • Richard Gassen (Ed.): 100 Years of the Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 , 124 pages, DKD, Hürth 1991
  • Hans-Martin Siebert (Ed.): 125 Years of the Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 , 75 pages, EV, Cologne 2016

Web links

Commons : Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Michael Schneider: Hoisting flag of the Cologne rowing society 1891 , entry in the flag register for rowing clubs, May 10, 2006 (accessed March 9, 2020)
  2. ↑ Michael Weingarten: 1891er Bootshaus-Aktiengesellschaft , entry on the website of the Deutsche Wertpapierauktionsgesellschaft, February 11, 2005 (accessed August 13, 2020)
  3. ↑ Ute Schmidt: 120 Years of the Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 - A brief overview , club portrait in the Internet portal Kölner Stadtteilliebe , May 15, 2011 (accessed January 31, 2019)
  4. ↑ Doug Rathburn: Blades of the World , entry in the international rudder blade database, April 12, 2004 (accessed October 28, 2019)
  5. ↑ Thomas Kosinski: Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 - Tradition on the Dump , club portrait in the Rudersport magazine , pp. 26–29, edition 11/2016 (accessed on July 5, 2019)
  6. ↑ Susanne Rohlfing: Approaching the Distant Dream , article in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , January 19, 2004 (accessed February 25, 2020)
  7. ↑ Ulrike Süsser: Rowing Club invites you to spring cleaning , report in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 7, 2019 (accessed on February 10, 2020)
  8. ↑ Steffen Heyde: The rowers in Rodenkirchen , mention in the Prinz magazine , May 10, 2020 (accessed on May 27, 2020)
  9. ↑ Michael Fiedler: First rowing and then fireworks spectacle , article in the Internet portal Kölnsport , July 3, 2019 (accessed on July 5, 2019)
  10. ↑ Elmira Togliatti: Rowing Clubs and Boathouses in Cologne , entry on the Rower's Almanac website , May 3, 2000 (accessed June 25, 2020)
  11. ↑ Wilhelm Hummels: Farewell Schwarze Adler , article on the website of the North Rhine-Westphalian Rowing Association, December 26, 2017 (accessed on May 15, 2019)
  12. ↑ Wilfried Hoffmann: German championship rowing of women and men from 1882 to today , chronicle on the Internet portal RRK Online , December 31, 2018 (accessed on May 9, 2019)
  13. ↑ Georg Petzl: Club messages , entry in the catalog of the German National Library, June 1, 2003 (accessed on February 18, 2020)

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '32 "  N , 7 ° 0' 8.1"  E