Rowing club Hansa from 1898

	RC Hansa Dortmund
Full name	Rowing Club Hansa from ; 1898 e. V. Dortmund
abbreviation	RCHD
Association headquarters	Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia
Founded	October 6, 1898 in Dortmund
Club colors	White and blue
Training waters	Dortmund-Ems Canal
Chairman	Ulrich Hahn
Members	411 (as of: 2019)
Homepage	www.rchd1898.de

Connected boat system RC Germania and RC Hansa (2015)

Boat christening (2012)

The rowing club Hansa from 1898 e. V. is a non-profit sports club for competitive and recreational rowing on the Dortmund-Ems Canal in the city center north of the city of Dortmund .

The RC Hansa Dortmund was founded on October 6th, 1898 and is registered under the number VR 1750 in the register of associations at the Dortmund District Court. It is affiliated with the German Rowing Association (DRV) in Hanover and the North Rhine-Westphalian Rowing Association (NWRV) in Duisburg . The name relic "Hansa" is a Latinization of the word Hanse .

The German Rowing Center Dortmund of the DRV is also located in the buildings of the rowing club . Here, parts of the national team train for international competitions, especially from the strap area of the men with the Germany eight and the women with the women's eight team . The Hansa rowing club regularly organizes the endurance test of the German Rowing Association in the second half of the year. In this test, the German rowing elite go on the six-kilometer stretch of canal in small boats. The results decide on the occupation of the large boats of the national team.

There are cooperations with a Dortmund grammar school and the university sports of the Technical University and the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences .

location

The founding of the association and the practice and sports grounds are fully connected with the construction of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the Dortmund harbor . The canal construction began in 1895; the port was opened in 1899 by Kaiser Wilhelm II . The clubhouse still stands today, albeit with several new buildings and extensions, in the same place west of the Fredenbaum between Hardenberghafen and the Petroleumhafen. The rowing club Germania from 1929 and the Canoe Club Freier Sportverein 1898 Dortmund are also located at the address “An den Bootshäuser” .

successes

Starting in the 1960s, the RC Hansa intensified its competitive sports activities, which in 1969 led to its first win at a German championship . In the following years, some Hansa rowers made it into the Germany eight. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bernd Truschinski , Reinhard Wendemuth , Günter Petersmann and Frithjof Henckel rowed four Dortmunders in a large German boat to fifth place.

The successes at the beginning of the 1970s led to the establishment of the Federal Training Center in 1976 with the accompanying professionalization. In 1983 the so-called "Ruhr-Vierer" won the club's first world championship title with Dortmund's Norbert Keßlau and Jörg Puttlitz . From 1986 Ralf Holtmeyer became the national coach of the men at the base. In 1988 the Germany eight, who trained under him, won the Olympic gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Seoul and five world championship titles in the following years. Many rowers such as Markus Vogt , Thomas Domian , Christoph Korte , Andreas Lütkefels , Stefan Scholz , Claas-Peter Fischer , Matthias Ungemach , Peter Thiede , Bahne Rabe and Armin Eichholz changed their club and joined the RC Hansa.

The RC Hansa also provided some successful female athletes in the women's division. Birte Siech , Cerstin Petersmann , Daniela Neunast and Ingeburg Schwerzmann , for example, qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics and won some medals there. Later Wilma Dressel and Sonja Ziegler started for the club in national team boats.

The RC Hansa was awarded the “Green Ribbon for Exemplary Talent Promotion” in 1996 and 2007. Due to the success, the boathouse of the RC Hansa developed into a performance center, since 1976 the RC Hansa has been the official federal base for rowers.