Rowing community Flörsheim-Rüsselsheim
The rowing community Flörsheim-Rüsselsheim (RFR) was a special purpose group founded by the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 (RRK) and Flörsheimer Ruder-Verein 08 (FRV) from 1949 to 1953 to hold a joint training operation for racing rowers .
history
Triggered by the special conditions of the wartime, a racing community was formed in the youth sector between Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 (RRK) and Flörsheimer Ruder-Verein 08 (FRV) in order to race together in rowing regattas.
This racing community continued after the end of the war in 1946, especially because the RRK boathouse is used by the American military government and training is therefore not possible at the RRK.
In the years 1947 and 1948, this racing community won five championship titles in the German championship rowing in the eighth (1947, 1948), in the four-without (1948), in the lightweight four-with (1947) and in the lightweight four-without (1948) .
Although 1949 finally gave the RRK the opportunity to train again in Rüsselsheim , and the RRK active no longer had to rely on the hospitality of the neighboring club in Flörsheim am Main , the cooperation with the FRV, which had been so successful until then, was maintained .
It turned out to be a disadvantage that according to the statutes of the German Rowing Association (DRV) it is not possible for a racing community to win one of the valuable hiking or challenge prizes. The plan therefore arises to combine the active members and functionaries of the two neighboring associations in a newly founded association that can become a member of the DRV with its own statutes. So in February 1949 the rowing community Flörsheim-Rüsselsheim (RFR) was founded. In a contract dated March 11, 1949, this close sporting cooperation between the RRK and FRV was initially agreed until the end of 1952.
According to the statutes of the RFR, which are also recognized by the two parent clubs, the RRK and FRV provide active rowers, trainers, boat equipment and a certain percentage of their income to the RFR, which uses it to train, attend and organize the regattas. The RFR elects the spiritual father of this new association, Georg von Opel , as its president . As for many years at the RRK, the training is managed by amateur trainer Fritz Brumme .
The RFR teams were very successful in the years 1949 to 1952 and could achieve many great victories, including five German championships (two in eight, one in four-without, one in double scull, plus one in youth double scull), as well as five Germans Vice championships.
The year 1951 takes the RFR teams to England for the first German international start of German rowers after the war . After second places in Marlow in singles, double sculls and eighth, the eighth starts at the Henley Royal Regatta , and after four preliminary victories in the “Thames Challenge Cup”, it reaches the final, where it meets the eighth of the American Pennsylvania University , but here have to give up.
But not only the sporting successes should be mentioned, but also the great Flörsheim Whitsun regattas organized by the RFR from 1949 to 1951. Every year they bring more than ten thousand spectators to the Main, who are attracted by rowing competitions (normal and short-distance races), water ski jumping, artificial jumping, a European championship of professional scooters in the single over 5 km and even a rowing pool of the Staatliche Sportwetten GmbH. In August 1952, the RFR organized a major international regatta in Flörsheim with the German championships for lightweights.
The joint agreement under discussion between the FRV and the RRK, which expired on December 31, 1952, will be extended in an amended version. The rowing operation for 1953 is left to the RFR again.
Since there were initially no successes in the eight and four in 1953, the question arises as to whether to replace the four and eight in order to achieve success in the top class with the eight. But differences of opinion in the two parent clubs prevent that. Then the German championship rowing is on the program. In the RFR there is another attempt to “tinker” an eight with a chance for a title out of four and eight, but an agreement cannot be reached. For example, two RFR eights start at the championship rowing in Mannheim at the beginning of August, one from Rüsselsheim and one from Flörsheim. Both eights cannot qualify for the final.
Separate training and starting of teams in the 1953 regatta season turned out to be the beginning of the drifting apart of the RFR. Increasing disagreements ultimately lead to the fact that a meeting of the RFR on August 26, 1953 in the RRK boathouse decided to dissolve the RFR on September 15, 1953.
successes
- German champion : eighth (1949, 1951), four-without (1949), double scull (1951)
Well-known athletes and coaches
- Fritz Brumme (successful amateur trainer, 10 German championships with the RRK and the RFR)
- Georg von Opel (seven-time German champion in one, four-without and eight with the RRK and the RFR)
- Georg Boller (six-time German champion in four-without and eight with the RRK and the RFR)
- Adam Munk (six-time German champion in four-without and eight with the FRV and the RFR)
- Erich Kohl (five-time German champion in four-without and eight with the FRV and the RFR)
- Hanswalter Messer (five-time German champion in the light weight foursome with and without as well as eighth with the FRV and the RFR)
- Karl Bauer (four-time German champion in eighth with the FRV and the RFR)
- Georg Schneider (four-time German champion in eighth with the FRV and the RFR)
- Wilfried Seipp (four-time German champion in eighth with the RRK and the RFR)
- Rolf Bopp (German champion in eighth with the RFR)
- René Kuhn (German champion in eighth with the RFR)
- Willy Neuburger (German champion in double sculls with RFR)
- Willi Wenz (German champion in eighth with the RFR)
- Helmut Schwinn (German champion in eighth with the RFR)