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[Deutscher Segler Verband]
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2009
[Deutscher Motor Yacht Verband]
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 July 2007
   

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Ratzeburger Segler-Verein

[Ratzeburger Segler-Verein (German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 14 Dec 2020

It is a white pennant, parted by an off-centred black cross fimbriated golden-yellow.
Source: yacht club website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Dec 2020


Ratzeburger Yacht- und Motorbootclub

[Ratzeburger Yacht- und Motorbootclub (German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 16 Dec 2020

It is a blue pennant with a white edge. Shifted to the hoist there are two white sails of different sizes. Shifted to the flyend are white capital letters "RYMC".
Source: I spotted this car sticker on 2 January 2007 in Hamburg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Nov 2008

found here: Dozens more on this Schleswig-Holstein yachting website (which may contain other unknowns), clubs searcheable geographically or alphabetically.
Jan Mertens, 11 Nov 2008


Berliner Segler-Club "Rhe" e.V.

[Berliner Segler-Club "Rhe" (German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 18 Dec 2020

The club was established in 1924 and based in Berlin-Köpenick. The white pennant was divided by two black stripes in bend, the left one from upper hoist with double width.
Source: DBS Almanac 1925, flag chart III row 2 column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2020


Segelclub "Rhe" e.V.

[Segelclub Rhe ensign (German YC)]
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2020
[Segelclub Rhe burgee (German YC)]
image by Ivan Sache, 22 May 2002
   

The ensign was a black-white-red horizontal tricolour (see left image above) like the German flag 1871-1918, with shield, as high as two stripes, silver a black throughout off-centred cross towards the hoist a with asilver escutcheon charged with a black eagle. The shield is referring to Eastern Prussia. Its capital had been KönigsbergThe burgee (see right image above) is white with a black off-centred (Scandinavian cross). This is the oldest German yacht club, founded in 1855. This Königsberg sailing club 'migrated' to Hamburg after WW2.
Sources: Flaggenbuch 1905, part IV, p.3, row 4 columns 5, Norie and Hobbs 1971, image 313 and yacht club website.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 Nov 2001, Ivan Sache, 22 May 2002 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2020


Segelclub Rheingau e.V.

[Segelclub Rheingau e.V. (German YC)] image by Ivan Sache, 22 May 2002

Blue pennant with a broad white Scandinavian cross and a red anchor fouled in white in the middle of the cross.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 22 May 2002


Segel-Club Ribnitz

[Segel-Club Ribnitz (German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 18 Dec 2020

The pennant is parted of blue (hoist) and red (fly) by a broad yellow chevron pointing to hoist. Blue, yellow and red are the historical colours of Mecklenburg.
Source: Source: DBS Almanac 1925, flag chart III row 4 column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2020


Rheinischer Motor-Yacht-Club

[Rheinischer Motor-Yacht-Club] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2020

The pennant was quartered of black (lower fly), white (upper fly and lower hoist) and red (upper hoist) charged with three coronets white in fess. That regional club was probably based in Köln, as the coronets are taken from its city arms.
Source: Braunbecks Sport Lexikon, published by Braunbeck-Gutenberg-AG, Berlin 1910
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2020


Mecklenburgischer Yachtclub Rostock e.V.

[Mecklenburgischer Yachtclub Rostock e.V. (German YC)] image by Ivan Sache, 10 May 2002

Yellow pennant with a black griffin. The griffin is the Heraldic Beast of Rostock.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 10 May 2002

Very similar to the Rostock Pennant pre-1870 to 1918.
Santiago Dotor, 16 September 2005

Großherzoglich-Mecklenburgischer Jacht Klub

[Großherzoglich-Mecklenburgischer Jachtklub Rostock(German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Dec 2020

It was a horizontal tricolour in German colours black-white-red. In canton was a Mecklenburgian horizontal tricolour blue-white-red, with a yellow shield in its centre, charged with a griffin rampant Sable tongued Gules and topped by a pagan coronet Or.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part IV, p.3, row 6 column 1, added after 1905
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Dec 2020


See- und Segelsportverein Rostock

[See- und Segelsportverein Rostock (German YC)] image by Ivan Sache, 1 Jul 2002

See- und Segelsportverein Rostock (Mecklenburg-Westpomerania) - Blue flag with a yellow fouled anchor and three yellow stars placed horizontally.
Source: Club website.
Ivan Sache, 1 Jul 2002


Rostocker Segelverein Citybootshafen e.V.

[Rostocker Segelverein Citybootshafen e.V. (German YC)] image by Ivan Sache, 12 May 2002

Pennant divided by a white Scandinavian cross, hoist quarters blue, fly quarters red, a white anchor in the canton. The municipal colours of Rostock are blue, white and red.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 12 May 2002


SV Rot-Gelb Hamburg von 1926 e.V.

sailing department


Hamburg base

[SV Rot-Gelb von 1926 e.V. Hamburg (German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2011

It is a white pennant with a shield shifted to the hoist. The shield is divided per bend sinister into red with a yellow scallop upon the dexter chief and plain yellow cotized red and yellow.
Source: website of Hamburger Yachthafen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2011
Please note that this flag had been reported 2008 and it is meanwhile replaced by the flag of Harburg base (see below)


Harburg base

[SV Rot-Gelb von 1950 e.V. Harburg (German YC)]

It is a yellow triangular pennant divided by a red cross shifted to the hoist. The intersection point of crossbars is superimposed by a blue diamond containing a yellow compass rose. It is the pennant of former club
SV Rot-Gelb von 1950 e.V. Harburg.
Source: spotted this as a car sticker on 27 March 2007 in HH-Borgfelde, for further information click club's website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Sep 2008


Klub am Rupenhorn e.V.

[Klub am Rupenhorn e.V. (German YC)] image by Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002

Red pennant with a black Scandinavian cross fimbriated white and black (2:1:1).
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002


Ruppiner Wassersport-Club

[Ruppiner Wassersport-Club (German YC)] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 18 Dec 2020

The pennant was parted by a white lozenge issuant from fly with black inscription "R.W.C." into black above and red beneath.
Source: DBS Almanac 1925, flag chart III row 4 column 4
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2020


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