German Rowing Clubs in Berlin (u-z)

Berliner Ruderclubs (u-z)

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• BRC Undine
• BRG Undine 1890 reported 1892
• BRG Undine 1890 reported 1901
• BRG Undine 1907
• Versehrten SGm
• BRG Victoria
• RV Vorwärts Berlin
• TV Waidmannslust
• RVg Wanderer
• RK am Wannsee
• Wannseer RV
• RG West
• Rc Westen 1910
• RG Wiking Berlin
• erroneous flag reported 1977
• flag reported 2007
• Vereine Deutscher Studenten Berlin und Charlottenburg
• WSVg Deutscher Landsmannschaftler (Cob.L.C.) zu Berlin

• Rowing Clubs in Germany
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If source is not given explicitely, all information is available from the flag chart of : Rudersportalmanach 1977.

BRC "Undine"

Name: Berliner Ruder Club "Undine"
Located in: Berlin
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
It was a red-white-blue horizontal tricolour. On the middle of the white stripe was a red 6-point star. On the red stripes was a white canton, charged with a red initial "U".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1890, no.13, p.133
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Jan 2026

BRG "Undine" von 1890 reported 1892

Name: Berliner Ruder-Gesellschaft "Undine"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 12 February 1890
Dissolved: 1900
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Jan 2026

Flag reported 1892

On the centre of the white flag was a blue 6-point star between two blue horizontal stripes. On white canton was a white "U" on a blue diamond exceeding to a blue cross.
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1892, no.26, p.293
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Jan 2026

Flag reported 1901

The flag was dark blue parted by a white saltire with white inscriptions on any quarter as follows: "B" (top), "R" (hoist), "G" (fly) and "U" (bottom).
Source: Berliner RC flag chart 1901
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Jan 2026

BRG "Undine" 1907

Name: Berliner Ruder-Gesellschaft "Undine" von 1907
Located in: Berlin-Köpenick
Established: unknown
Dissolved: 1938 by NS-rule
The flag was white parted by a black centred cotized cross. The upper hoist quarter was red charged with a white initial "U". The club was one of eight Jewish rowing clubs in Köpenick and established by five men, among them Alex Friedländer.
Sources: Wassersport (weekly) 1910, no.51, p.842 and

Versehrten SGm

Name: Versehrten-Wassersport-Gemeinschaft e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 12 Oktober 1989
It is a white pennant. Light blue lines cotized white and black are converging in a point shifted to the hoist. This point is superimposed by a white disc fimbriated black with a black inscription "V" above "W" separated by a black horizontal line.
This rowing club was established especially for disabled persons in order to train together with healthy persons.
Source: flag chart
For further information click:club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Apr 2011

BRG "Victoria"

Name: Berliner Ruder-Gesellschaft "Victoria" (until 1888 simply Ruder-Gesellschaft "Victoria")
Located in: Berlin
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
The flag was white parted by a centred red cross. The upperhoist quarter was red blue charged with a white 6-point star.
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1888, no.19, p.203 and 1889, no.17, p.172
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Jan 2026

RV Vorwärts Berlin

Information about this club is available here.

TV Waidmannslust

Name: Ruder-Riege Turn-Verein Waidmannslust e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 22 February 1922
It is a white flag divided by a green centred cross which is fimbriated green and white. In the centre is a green shield with a white tressure bearing four yellow cross shaped "F"s, being the logo of German athletics association with the meaning: "fresh, faithful, happy, free" (German: frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei). The canton is a horizontal green over white over yellow tricolour.
For further information click:club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Nov 2008

RVg "Wanderer"

Name: Rudervereinigung "Wanderer" e.V.
Located in: Berlin
It is a white flag, black edged at hoist and fly. In the centre is the small coat of arms of the electorate of Brandenburg, a crowned red eagle with an inescutcheon, filling the whole white partition.
Source: flag chart of Märkischer RV (Version 29 July 2007)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2008

RK am "Wannsee"

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Sep 2008

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Sep 2008

Name: Ruderklub "Am Wannsee" e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 13 September 1906
For further information click:club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 01 Jan 2007

In 1977 (see left image above) the white flag was divided by a red, cotised, centred cross. In the centre of the flag was a red roundel with a white circle. In the circle ws a white capital "W". The canton was a red over white horizontal bicolour.
The 2006 flag (see right image above) was the same but the canton was simply white and the white circle was broken.
Source: BRC Club-Nachrichten Nr.607 April-Juni 2006; p.40 and RA77
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Sep 2008

Wannseer RV

Name: Wannseer Ruder-Verein e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
It was an 11-stripes flag parted horizontally by alternating blue and white stripes. On blue canton was a white inscription "WRV".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1929, no.6, p.95
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2026

RG West

Name: Rudergesellschaft "West" e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 1 May 1925
It is a white flag divided by a sinister bendy black over red over yellow ribbon. In the upper hoist corner are black capitals "RG" over "W", the "W" having double width.
For further information click:club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Nov 2008

RC Westen 1910

Name: Ruder-Club "Westen 1910" e.V.
Located in: Berlin-Schöneberg
Established: 1910
Dissolved: unknown
The white flag was superimposed by three black bars (not reaching the edges). In the white canton, fimbriated black, was a black capital "W".
Source: Der Rudersport (weekly); edition II/42/15 October 1913
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 June 2014

RG Wiking Berlin

Name: Rudergesellschaft "Wiking" e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 18 January 1896
For further information click:club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 01 Jan 2007

erroneous flag reported 1977

It is a green-white-green horizontal triband with green capital letters "WIKING" in the white stripe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Apr 2006

flag reported 2007

It is a green-red-green horizontal triband with white capital letters "WIKING" in the red stripe.
Source: flag chart
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Apr 2006

Vereine Deutscher Studenten Berlin und Charlottenburg

Vereine Deutscher Studenten Berlin und Charlottenburg (Clubs of German Students Berlin and Charlottenburg) is actually just one club. The fraternity still exists which branches all over Germany. The Berlin and Charlottenburg branch was established on 18 January 1881. The flag of the rowing section was white and parted by a red centred cross cotized white-black. Over all on centre was a white shield displaying the black Prussian eagle. The canton displayed the flag of the fraternity, a black-white-red horizontal tricolour with the circle on the middle of the white stripe, flanked by numbers "18" (hoist) and "81" (fly). The rowing section joined RG Wiking on 15 January 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider,

WSVg Deutscher Landsmannschaftler (Cob.L.C.) zu Berlin

Name: Wassersportvereinigung Deutscher Landsmannschaftler (Cob L.C.) zu Berlin
Located in: Berlin
Established: 1 March 1868 in Kassel
Re-established: 12 May 1951 in Coburg
Deutsche Landsmannschaften had been a corporation of fraternities of students with branches all over Germany and Austria. It belonged to the umbrella organisation Coburger Convent (full name: Coburger Convent der akademischen Landsmannschaften und Turnerschaften an deutschen Hochschulen (Coburg Convent of academic Compatriots and Athletics Fraternities in German Universities).
For further information click German WIKIPEDIA
The flag of the Berlin watersports department was white parted by a centred cotized blue cross. On centre in a black annulet was a black fraternity circle. The upper hoist quarter was a white-blue-white horizontal triband.
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1928, no.1, p.14
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Jan 2026

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