Yacht Club of Germany

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Stand of the Yacht Club of Germany
Water sports flag during the Nazi era

The Yacht Club of Germany (YCvD) was a National Socialist sailing club that was created through the renaming of the Imperial Yacht Club and the merger of several important yacht and sailing clubs during the National Socialist era. The YCvD was responsible for international relations in German sailing.

history

Also in the water sports area which found direct circuit instead. On July 27, 1934, the German Reich Association for Physical Exercise DRL was founded, and in 1938 it was renamed the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL). All existing sports associations were incorporated into the DRL and lost their independence. The DLR / NSRL and its sub-department for the Sailing Department were thus also the main association for all sailing clubs. The NSRL and the Reichsbund für physical exercises were a sub-organization of the NSDAP.

After the 1936 Sailing Olympics in Kiel , the Imperial Yacht Club (KYC), the successor of which is what today's Kiel Yacht Club sees itself , was renamed the Yacht Club of Germany and other water sports clubs such as the Kiel Sailing Association, but also other important ones Clubs all over Germany and in 1937 they joined the newly founded National Socialist Yacht Club of Germany. This association had the objective of promoting the National Socialist ideas in international yachting and was intended to serve the whole sailing sport. An "imperial yacht club" with the former emperor as commodore was not suitable for this. As part of this synchronization, other "royal" yacht clubs such as the Royal Württemberg Yacht Club and the Royal Bavarian Yacht Club had to join the YCvD. The yacht club of Germany was primarily intended to be the bearer of international relations in sailing and organized the future Kiel Weeks.

After Austria was annexed to Germany, several Austrian sailing clubs were incorporated into the YCvD and their club boards were brought into line. At the end of 1938 the YCvD had over 3800 members.

With the outbreak of war, sailing was initially no longer possible in isolated cases. The yacht schools were able to continue their training operations, but the members of the sailing clubs were for the most part called up as soldiers in the war. The facilities of the club and its subdivisions were misused for military and other purposes of the Reich. Large numbers of club members lost their lives in World War II. With Act No. 5 of the American military government of May 31, 1945, the NSDAP and all its institutions and organizations were dissolved, and with it the Yacht Club of Germany.
Most of the sailing and yacht clubs that had been absorbed into it were newly founded in the period that followed.

Events

  • In 1937 and 1938 the YCvD organized the Kiel Week .
  • In 1937, together with the North German Regatta Club , the European Star Championship was organized.
  • The last Kiel Week took place in 1939.
  • In August 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, the Star World Championship was organized by the Yacht Club of Germany.

literature

Otto Schlenzka: 100 years of Kiel Yacht Club 1887 - 1987 . Kieler Yachtclub Selbstverlag, Kiel 1987 (196 pages).

YCvD magazines

  • Bulletin of the Yacht Club of Germany. - Kiel: NS.-Gauverlag.
  • Monthly magazine of the Yacht Club of Germany e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yacht Club of Germany (=  monthly publication of the Yacht Club of Germany ). Kiel August 1938, i84.servimg.com ( servimg.com [accessed November 29, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c Otto Schlenzka : The Kiel Yacht Club Tradition and Modernity. In: Kieler Yacht Club. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ The history of the Württemberg yacht club. In: www.wyc-fn.de. Wuerttemberg Yacht Club, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations . 1st edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14989-X , p. 88 , books.google.co.th ( google.co.th [accessed November 29, 2019]).
  5. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone (Ed.): List of the literature to be sorted out . Transcript journals AZ. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946, p. 469-526 , www.polunbi.de ( polunbi.de [accessed November 29, 2019]).

Web links

  • History of the Württemberg Yacht Club (WYC) on the WYC website. Here, the dissolution of the association that took place in 1935 and bringing it into line is shown in pure Nazi diction on November 25, 2008: Associations were united under central directives to serve as role models .
    The association included, firstly, the complete dissolution of the association and, secondly, the implementation of the Nazi ideology among the former sailors of the WYC who were now in the subdivision of the YCvd. That meant u. a. the elimination of Jews, supporters of democratic ideas and opponents of National Socialist acts of injustice from the associations, insofar as this had not already been practiced. Third, from now on, only the word of the leader appointed from above counted in the club department.