Wilhelm Rakenius

Wilhelm Rakenius (born July 26, 1878 in Charlottenburg , Teltow district , † December 6, 1961 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German lawyer, entrepreneur and sailing sports official, later an employee in the Reich Ministry of Aviation.

Wilhelm Rakenius studied law at the University of Göttingen and Berlin and obtained his doctorate in Heidelberg. jur. In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . He later took over his father's publishing house in Berlin and in later years worked in the Reich Ministry of Aviation as head of the research department.

Even before the First World War , Rakenius successfully competed in regattas as a regatta sailor, including in the special class . He was honorary chairman of the German Sailing Association (DSV) and the Seglerhaus am Wannsee Association from 1928 to 1932 ; at the time he was also the second chairman of the German high seas sports association HANSA . During his tenure in 1928, after the loss of the First World War, the German Reich returned to the International Yacht Racing Union and thus rejoined the international sports community. This enabled Germany to take part in the sailing competitions of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, which were sailed on the Zuiderzee . His successor in the presidency of the DSV was from November 1932 to the DC circuit Dr. Edmund Koebke.

Wilhelm Rakenius was married to Maria Rakenius, b. Kretzschmar; they had three sons.

Fonts

• The estates of the nobility and the common family fideicommisse. Heidelberg 1905. Inaugural dissertation, High Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg

literature

• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 263, No. 852

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report on the special class regattas in front of Marblehead in Yacht (magazine) | Yacht 1909, Issue 32 p. 721
2. ↑ DHH 1931 advertising brochure
3. ↑ Chronology at the Yachtsport Archive ( Memento from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )