Kiel Yacht Club

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KYC
KYC-Stander.svg
Club stand
Full name Kieler Yacht Club e. V.
Founded 1887 in Kiel
Association headquarters Kiel, keel line 70
Chairman Dr. Carsten Krage
Commodore Dierk Thomsen
Members 1400
Club facilities Düsternbrook , Strande
Homepage www.kyc.de
KYC - Kieler Yacht Club dinnerware - Honi soit qui mal y pense - "Irene" with the monogram of the Hohenzollern

The Kieler Yacht Club ( KYC ; spoken: Küz ) is a traditional German yacht club in Kiel . Kaiser Wilhelm II and Prince Heinrich were members of the club, which was called the Imperial Yacht Club from 1891 to 1937 .

history

KYC - Kieler Yacht Club dinnerware - Honi soit qui mal y pense - Monogram of the Hohenzollern

In 1887 the KYC was founded as a naval regatta association by officers and officials of the navy . The sailing enthusiast Prince Heinrich became the club's “protector”. From 1891 it was also possible for non-naval members to become members. In the same year, Kaiser Wilhelm II, himself the association's “ Commodore ”, awarded the Marine Regatta Association the title of Imperial Yacht Club and shipped his first yacht, the Meteor I , to Kiel. All later imperial sailing boats were to follow. In 1893 the club received a club flag awarded by the emperor. When the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal was opened with great celebrations in 1895 , this helped the association to gain greater recognition. From now on, sailing in Germany was based on the KYC. In 1900 the KYC was one of the largest yacht clubs in the empire with 1,410 members. By 1910 the number of members had more than doubled to 3,106. In 1907, after more than forty years of service , Admiral Volkmar von Arnim resigned from active naval service and became the board of the association.

In 1910 the youth department, the Kiel Yacht School, was founded. On this occasion, the emperor gave the association a second training boat , the special class yacht “Bibelot”. In 1914 the emperor received the news of the assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne in Sarajevo during a regatta of the KYC. The Meteor IV and the ships of Krupp abandoned the race immediately. In 1913, the Catholic student association AV Rheno-Guestfalia Kiel joined the Kiel Yacht Club as the first sailing association and is the oldest active member today.

The First World War heralded the decline of the club. Almost all of the association's assets, valued at 1 million marks, were lost to war bonds . 455 members died in the war.

In 1921, the Kiel Week , which the KYC played a key role in shaping and establishing, was canceled because Germany had signed the Versailles Peace Treaty two days earlier . Kaiser Wilhelm II remained a commodore for life even after the end of the monarchy . Due to the imperial tradition of the association, all members of the Navy had to leave the KYC in 1929. This prompted the board to also accept female members in order to compensate for the severe decline in membership. In Marblehead , USA , a regatta took place between a top US boat and the KYC's "Hathi". The race, which was in the tradition of the Roosevelt Cup , was won by the German team under Hans-Carl Rüdel , who was later appointed Commodore . This victory gave the KYC new hope.

When the National Socialists came to power , the German Reich Association for Physical Exercise was founded. Gradually almost all sports associations lost their independence and were transferred to the DRL as "specialist offices". In 1936, Kiel hosted the Olympic Summer Games sailing competition . The local organization was in the hands of the KYC regatta sailor Hans Lubinus , who was also an active participant in the 6m-R class. In 1937 the Imperial Yacht Club was to be merged with the Kiel Sailing Association (KSV) and other yacht clubs with “outdated names” to form the Yacht Club of Germany (YCvD). The Imperial Yacht Club escaped this by disbanding itself on October 28, 1936, after having played an important role in organizing the sailing competitions at the Olympic Games in Kiel . The then long-time chairman of the club, Rear Admiral Alfred Begas , made the request . Incidentally, shortly before this, he was appointed “Honorary Life Member” of the Royal Ocean Racing Club . Only remnants of the club were found in the Yacht Club of Germany. The sailing possibilities were extremely restricted. Many members fell victim to the war.

Under the British occupation, the sailing operation finally ceased completely. British Navy soldiers founded the British Kiel Yacht Club on June 11, 1945 (located in the KYC clubhouse), which in 1946 and 1947 even organized a “British Kiel Week”. The British Kiel Yacht Club existed until 2016 with its own (new) clubhouse in Kiel and was a friendly club. The Royal Engineers Officer Colonel Fryer had acquired the so-called Windfall yachts from the KYC, including the Avalanche, Overlord, Seascape and the Sea Scamp, as spoils of war or reparation payments, the last of these yachts, the Flamingo, was sold in 2015. This club was the backbone of the sailing of the British Armed Forces in Germany. In 1951, the BKYC moved to its own premises in Stickenhörn.

As early as 1945 the club was brought back to life and the politically unaffected Ferdinand Hell was elected chairman. When the formation of sailing clubs was allowed again in autumn 1946, the club was legalized and has since been called the Kieler Yacht Club . He runs the old KYC stand - but without a crown.

In 1948 another German Kiel Week took place. In 1951, the German President Theodor Heuss visited the KYC and sailed with the youth. In doing so, he established a small tradition (most recently, Federal President Horst Köhler sailed with the KYC youth). In the decades to come, the number of members rose steadily again, championships and regattas of international importance - including the Olympic sailing competitions in 1972 - were held in Kiel. Today the Kiel Yacht Club is one of the most renowned yacht clubs in Germany.

Alfried Krupp Haus, clubhouse at the keel line (2009)

The association had around 1400 members in 2017.

Clubhouses

Alfried Krupp House

Alfred Krupp left elegant club rooms on what was then Strandweg to the association for a symbolic annual rent of 1  gold mark . The clubhouse became a military hospital in World War I , was sold in 1919 and became the Institute for World Economy (Kiellinie 66).

The KYC decided to convert an old engine house at the harbor into a clubhouse (keel line 70).

The clubhouse was confiscated from 1940 to May 1952.

In the course of preparations for the 1972 Olympic Games, the club's board of directors agreed to add an annex to the clubhouse in which additional rooms were to be made available for hotel operations. However, the construction costs were never paid again and burdened the club budget for decades. The bankruptcies of three successive tenants (Dieter Kaminski, Dieter Cohrt) caused serious problems on the club's income side. Because of economic difficulties, the club repeatedly hit the headlines. Finally, in 2007, the club's own hotel (and clubhouse) was sold to ThyssenKrupp Real Estate . At the same time, at the suggestion of Berthold Beitz , the building was renamed Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach -Haus after the great patron of the KYC . The KYC enjoys a permanent tenancy right, but had to forego part of its premises in favor of the hotel.

On April 1,  2018 , the owner changed again. The KYC now holds 6% of the shares in the GmbH, the other 94% is held by Atlantic Hotels, which already owns the hotel at Kiel Central Station . The hotel is to be expanded from 20 to 50 rooms. Clubhouse Strande

With the support of the foundation, the Alfried Krupp House of the Kiel Yacht Club was built in Strande in 1991. Since then, it has also served the club as a youth club house and is also available to members of the club and their guests in the beautiful beach area with a restaurant.

In 2009 the Strander Haus 'lost' its name to the parent company on Hindenburgufer, as requested by the Krupp Foundation. Elke and Dieter Kipcke, who ran the house professionally, were “good spirits” of the house from the start. Over the years, the Strander Clubhouse has become a good and popular refuge for competitive and cruising sailors, and above all a training and playground for our youngsters. In addition to the shipyard, the Strander property of the Kiel Yacht Club also houses the youngsters and regatta groups. Here, in the club's training center, the youngest are introduced to sailing and finally, in the regatta group, they are made fit for top performance in sailing. After strenuous training, for example in holiday courses, the youngsters will find a place to relax in the clubhouse or sometimes even for a spaghetti battle. The premises are also available for theoretical training. The catering has been run by Julia Labs and her team since 2015

Kiel yacht school

The Kieler Yacht Schule (KYS) was founded as early as 1910 as probably the oldest youth department of a sailing club in Germany. The initiator was Vice Admiral Carl Barandon .

The members are young people between the ages of twelve and 24; girls have been admitted since 1963. From the beginning, self-management and self-management was the principle of the yacht school. This includes the responsibility for significant values ​​in the form of KYS own ships. This is done by a board of ten yacht students. He is responsible for administration and sailing operations. The board of the KYS is represented and supported externally and on the board of the KYC by the head. The concept is still unique and educationally it was revolutionary for the time. The KYC has received several awards for its exemplary youth work. This yacht school has its own fleet of training ships. The flagship of KYS is the SY future.

Training group

In 1927 the "training group" is founded in the post-war restructuring. The idea behind this new division is to continue to follow the principle of "increasing the joy of sailing" and to make sailing possible for everyone. Even young and not so young adults will find a (re) entry possibility in the sport of sailing at KYC. The training group trains on its own boats. Here the members learn good seamanship and sporty sailing. Regattas, joint trips and (long) trips complete the concept. The training group is an independent division and is led by the training group council. The boat supervisors, who coordinate the work on the association's own ships, also belong to this council. Many members of the training group support the association in its work and are members of the Seebahn, the board of directors or take on offices in the association. The training group is open to anyone interested. An additional offer from this division is the organization of training courses and further education, such as medicine at sea, World Sailing - deep sea training or the common driving license courses. Once a membership has been closed, it often lasts through a lifelong bond.

Youngsters - and regatta group

With the establishment of the youngest and regatta group (J & R for short), the KYC completed its offer for the youngest and regatta enthusiasts in younger years. The J & R is based in neighboring Strande and is located on the premises of the club house and the shipyard. Since it was founded, the youngest group and regatta group has been an institution for friends of sailing, willingness to perform, but also an introduction to the love of water sports. The J and R are led by the lead trainer and his team of trainers.

Prices

Between 1953 and 2004 the association awarded the Schlimbach Prize, named after the captain Ludwig Schlimbach , for special sailing achievements.

The Commodore

Imperial Yacht Club Kiel

literature

  • Otto Schlenzka: 100 years of the Kiel Yacht Club 1887-1987 . Kieler Yacht Club, Kiel 1987
  • Bruno Paulenz: In the storm of time - 100 years of Kieler Yacht-Club , special edition of the Kieler Nachrichten, Kiel 1987

Web links

Commons : Kieler Yacht-Club  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 20 '23.2 "  N , 10 ° 9' 21.8"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katy Stickland: End of an era: British Kiel Yacht Club boats are transferred. In: www.ybw.com. Yachting and Boating World, October 10, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Theo Stocker: British Kiel Yacht Club closed after 71 years. In: www.yachtingmonthly.com. Yachting Monthly, September 30, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ British Kiel Yacht Club (United Kingdom). In: www.crwflags.com. Flags of the World, April 17, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Steffan Meyric Hughes: End of an era for British sailing at Kiel. In: www.classicboat.co.uk. Classic Boat, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Irvin Krumnacker: Sailing news August 25, 2017. In: www.segel.de. Segel.de, July 25, 2017, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b Gerhard Müller: "Mister X" buys Hotel Kieler Yacht-Club. In: www.kn-online.de. Kieler Nachrichten, August 26, 2017, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ulf Meinke: Thyssen-Krupp wants to part with the Yacht Club in Kiel. In: www.waz.de. WAZ, March 10, 2015, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ ThyssenKrupp parts with inheritance. In: ww.tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel, March 24, 2015, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Atlantic Hotels joins the Hotel Kieler Yacht Club. In: www.ahgz.de. ahgz.de, February 21, 2018, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Atlantic Hotels take over Hotel Kieler Yacht Club. In: www.tophotel.de. Tophotel, February 21, 2018, accessed December 7, 2019 .