Rowing club Alt-Werder Magdeburg

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The rowing club Alt-Werder Magdeburg 1887 e. V. (RCAW) is a Magdeburg rowing club . It was founded on July 1, 1887 as the rowing club "Werder" e. V. Magdeburg founded. Its modern boathouse facility is located on the west bank of the Elbe at Elbe kilometer 324.

Beginnings until 1945

The first beginnings of the old rowing club "Werder" go back to 1886. Some members of the rowing club “Germania”, especially the sons of long-established families in the Magdeburg district of Werder , founded a community that they named their closest home. The first chairman was Carl Miller . Other founding members included Albert and Otto Bieberstein, Waldemar Fabel, Hermann Miller and Max Höndorf. In 1889 the club became a member of the German Rowing Association .

After the First World War , there was a strong influx of members, so that the available boat material was hardly sufficient and the boats had to be occupied long before. Numerous new acquisitions were necessary. Logically, the merger with the neighboring Magdeburg rowing club at the time was intended to bundle forces and resources. On December 9, 1922, the two associations were merged while retaining the name R. C. Werder . This merger was not a lucky star. Already at the end of 1924 about 95 percent of the members of the old rowing club "Werder" left the club and founded a new association. The founding meeting of the "Rowing Association Alt-Werder" took place on January 14, 1925. The new club already had over 100 members, but had neither boats nor a boathouse.

The ambitious club started training out of an old shed at the customs port. Despite the provisional arrangement, the scullers Herbert Buhtz and Gerhard von Düsterlho were discovered in 1928 , who became German champions in double sculls in Berlin in 1929 and 1930 . These titles were the first German championship titles for a Magdeburg rowing club. On June 21, 1931, the boathouse and clubhouse was inaugurated in the Buckau district, which still exists today.

In the course of the “ Gleichschaltung ” in 1933, German sport was “reorganized”. The youth of "Alt-Werder" organized themselves into so-called defense formations, primarily the naval SA. With the beginning of the Second World War , rowing came more and more to a standstill.

1945 to 1990

In 1945, Directive 23 of the Allied Control Authority banned “sports organizations and those organizations that serve military or pre-military physical fitness (clubs, associations, institutions and other organizations) that existed in Germany before the surrender”. They were to be dissolved by January 1, 1946.

The boathouse of "Alt-Werder" was the only one that remained next to the "Swiss House" of the MRC without any significant war damage. The establishment of an FDJ rowing group made it possible to practice rowing again in Buckau . The former rowing association "Alt-Werder" became the rowing section of the company sports association ( BSG ) Motor Magdeburg (later Motor Magdeburg Südost ) and quickly continued its racing tradition.

At the end of the 1950s, rowing was brought to new life by political decision. Newly founded sports clubs should help the GDR to sporting fame. In 1959 what was then BSG Motor Magdeburg Südost (MSO) delegated its most successful rowers to the then Sports Club Aufbau Magdeburg. Again, a continuous development was interrupted by external influences.

In the 1970s, MSO developed into a youth training center and, as the “District Training Center (BTZ)”, became the talent factory of SC Magdeburg .

1990 until today

With the political change in 1990 it was foreseeable that sport in the former GDR would have to reposition itself completely. The members of the rowing section re-founded the old rowing association Alt-Werder and adapted the structures to the association law. The club became a member of the German Rowing Association again. In 2007 the club was renamed "Ruderclub Alt-Werder Magdeburg". At the beginning of 2009 a new boathouse was put into operation and the old house was extensively renovated.

German champion

Double scull

  • 1929 Herbert Buhtz and Gerhard von Düsterlho
  • 1930 Herbert Buhtz and Gerhard von Düsterlho

Lightweight eighth

  • 1957 Jürgen Coldewey, Lothar Ewert, Peter Culemann, Ulrich Kleinau

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Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 30.2 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 31.3"  E