Rudergesellschaft "Wiking" (German Rowing Club)

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• RG Wiking Berlin
• First Flag (1896 - 1897)
• Erroneous Flag reported 1977
• BRV Allemannia
• RV Amicitia
• BRC Triton-Vorwärts
• BRC Triton
• BRC Alsen
• RV Vorwärts
• BRC Pfeil
• BRC Vorwärts
• Union RC
• RR Vereine Deutscher Studenten Berlin und Charlottenburg

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RG Wiking Berlin

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

The flag 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

First Flag reported (1896 - 1897)

Its first ephemeral flag had been white. On upper hoist quarter was a part of a yellowish green disc charged with a W-shaped green knot. From disc emerged five yellowish green rays to the edges of the flag.
Source: "125 Jahre Rudergesellschaft Wiking", pp.3+289
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2026

Erroneous Flag reported 1977

It is a green-white-green horizontal triband with green capital letters "WIKING" in the white stripe.
Source: Rudersportalmanach 1977
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Apr 2006

BRV Allemannia

Name: Berliner Ruder-Verein "Allemannia" e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 9 October 1890
Dissolved: 1981
Source: Rudersportalmanach 1977

The club was established by former pupils of Leibniz-Gymnasium (an A-level school). The club was associated with PRC as an independent group keeping its proper flag since 1954 and finally joined PRCG in 1981. All members of the club had a double membership (in BRVA and PRC/PRCG) since 1954.
The club had an ephemeral intermezzo as part of RG Wiking from 1898 until 1900.
The flag was white parted by two narrow black horizontal stripes and a black 6-point-star on the centre of the flag between the stripes.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

RV "Amicitia"

Name: Ruder-Verein "Amicitia"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 30 November 1895
Dissolved: 1896
It was a 9-stripes flag, horizontally parted by alternating white and blue stripes, superimposed by a golden/yellow stylised "A" with floral applications.
Sources: "125 Jahre Rudergesellschaft Wiking", pp.3+289 and Wassersport (weekly) 1896, no.8, p.79
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2026

BRC "Triton-Vorwärts"

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Triton-Vorwärts"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 2 August 1889
Dissolved: unknown
It was a 9-stripes flag, parted by alternating horizontal black and white stripes. The white canton was fimbriated red and a had an inscription consisting of a red initial "V", superimposed by a black initial "T".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1889, no.45, p.495 and 1889, no.46, p.506
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2026

BRC Triton

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Triton"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 20 April 1888
Dissolved: 2 August 1889
It was a 9-stripes flag parted horizontally by alternating black and white stripes. On white canton was a black dotted initial "T". The club was established by a merger of BRC "Pfeil" and BRC "Alsen 1883". Their flags are unknown.
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1888, no.31, p.335
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2026

BRC "Alsen"

Name: Beliner Ruder-Club "Alsen"
Located in: Berlin
Established: October 1881
Dissolved: 19 April 1888 by merger BRC "Pfeil"
The white flag was parted by two horizontal blue stripes. Between the stripes on its centre was a white 6-point star fimbriated blue charged with a blue serifed initial "A".
Source: "125 Jahre Rudergesellschaft Wiking", pp.3+289
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2026

RV "Vorwärts"

Name: Ruder-Verein "Vorwärts"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 31 October 1884
Dissolved: October 1886 by joining BRC "Alsen"
It was a 10-stripes flag, horizontally parted by alternating yellow and blue stripes. The yellow canton had a thin black bordure and was parted by black saltire with black inscriptions on every quarter as follows: "R"(top), "V"(hoist and fly) and "84"(bottom).
Source: "125 Jahre Rudergesellschaft Wiking", pp.3+289
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2026

BRC "Pfeil"

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Pfeil"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 6 August 1886
Re-established: 2 January 1897
Dissolved: 19 April 1888 by merger with BRC "Alsen"
The flag was white with a centred dark-blue 5-point star between two red horizontal lines. The club was established actually on 1 July 1894 as Privat Ruder-Club "Pfeil"
Source: Berliner RC flag chart 1901
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2026

BRC Vorwärts

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Vorwärts"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 9 October 1887
Dissolved: 2 August 1889
The flag was white with a centred black 8-point star between two black horizontal lines. On the white canton, separated by thin red stripes, was a red dotted initial "V".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1889, no.45, p.495
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Jan 2026

"Union" RC

Name: "Union" Ruder-Club
Located in: Berlin
Established: 2 October 1885
This club was a subdivision of RG Wiking
The white flag was parted by a red cotized saltire under a black centred cross fimbriated red. On centre was a black disc fimbriated red with a small white disc on its centre.
Source: Wassersport (year book) 1915, p.104
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2026

RR Vereine Deutscher Studenten Berlin und Charlottenburg

mage by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2026

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2026

Established: 10 May 1896 (rowing squad)
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 (see left image above) 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).
A variant (see right image above) had a back inscription "V.D.St." on the white stripe of the tricolour on canton and the circle was on the central shield instead of a black eagle.
The rowing section joined RG Wiking on 15 January 1897 and left it in 1903.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2026

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