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# German Rowing Clubs ordered by name of location (b)

## Deutsche Ruderclubs (b)

Last modified: 2026-04-22 by klaus-michael schneider
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pennant of the Deutscher Ruderverband (DRV, German Rowing Association)

- RV Babensham-Wasserburg 1891
- Bacharacher RV 1884
- Bamberger RG

- Flag
- Blade

- RV Bamberg
- RC Welle (Bardowick)
- RC Beeskow
- WSV Belau
- WSV Bendorf am Rhein
- Bernburger RC
- RC Hansa Bernburg
- RC Victoria Bernburg
- Bernkasteler RV
- Binger RG
- TRV Rhenania 1877 (Bingen)
- RV Birkenwerder
- Bitterfelder RK
- RV Bochum
- RG Linden-Dahlhausen (Bochum)
- RV Bodenwerder

- RV Bodenwerder Youth

- RC Elbe (Boizenburg)
- RC Germania Boppard
- RGm Bottrop

- flag reported 1977 and 2004
- flag reported 2010

- TuS Bramsche
- RAbt. TSV Bremervörde 1863
- Breisacher RV
- RR Schaumburgia Bückeburg
- RC Burg (near Magdeburg)
- WSF Burg 1924

See also:

- Rowing Clubs in Germany
- Flags of Sports Associations and Clubs (Germany)
- Germany

Information about rowing clubs in the following cities is available here:

- all locations having the prefix Bad
- Berlin
- Bonn
- Braunschweig
- Bremen

Source:
If source is not given explicitely, all information is available from the flag chart of : Rudersportalmanach 1977.

## RV Babensham-Wasserburg 1891

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2026

Name: Ruderverein Babensham-Wasserburg von 1981 e.V.
Located in: Babensham, opposite of Wasserburg
Established: 1981
It is a red-blue horizontal bicolour parted by two white stylised blades superimposing on another. On fly blade black inscription "RVB", on hoist blade the arms of Babensham in black and white.
Source: club webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2026

## Bacharacher RV 1884

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2011

Name: Bacharacher Ruder-Verein 1884 e.V.
Located in: Bacharach/Rhein
Established: 10 January 1884
The white flag is divided by a blue saltire with blue inscriptions in its quarters: "B."(top), "R." (hoist), "V." (fly) and "1884" (bottom). In the canton is the local coat of arms.
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2011

## Bamberger RG

Name: Bamberger Rudergesellschaft von 1884 e.V.
Located in: Bamberg(Oberfranken)
Established: 20 May 1884
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 May 2006

### Flag

image by Rob Raeside, 26 Aug 2009

It is a 10-stripes flag with horizontal alternating red and white stripes starting with a red one. It has a white canton divided by a blue saltire and blue capital letters and numbers "B" (hoist), "R" (top), "G" (fly) and "1884" (bottom) all in FIAV-code B-.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 May 2006

### Blade

image by Rob Raeside, 17 Dec 2008

Description of blade:
It is a red blade with a white 6-point star shifted to the baseboard.
Source: club website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2008

## RV Bamberg

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2026

Name: Ruder-Verein Bamberg e.V.
Located in: Bamberg
Established: 1905
Dissolved: unknown
It was a 10-stripes flag parted by alternating white and blue horizontal stripes. On a white canton was a broad horizontal blue stripe flanked by black inscriptions "R.V.B." (above) and "1905" (beneath).
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1912, no.4, p.41
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2026

## RC "Welle"

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2007

Name: Ruderclub "Welle" von 1894 e.V.
Located in: Bardowick (Lüneburg County)
Established: 15 August 1894
It is a white flag with a blue centred cotized cross superimposed by a white edged blue diamond. There are blue inscriptions: "R" (upper hoist), "C" (upper fly), "W" (lower hoist) and "1894" (lower fly).
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2007

## RC Beeskow

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2011

Name: Ruderclub Beeskow 1920 e.V.
Located in: Beeskow (Brandenburg)
Established: 16 November 1920
The white flag is divided by two blue horizontal lines. In the centre between the lines is a white 6-point star in a blue disc.
Source: flag chart
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2011

## WSV Belau

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Feb 2026

Name: Wassersportverein Belau e.V.
Located in: Belau
Established: 18 April 1973
The flag is a horizontal tricolour of orangy red, white and green with a black inscription "WVB" in a capsule of the same on the white stripe.
Source:
Source: DRV flag chart
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Feb 2026

## WSV Bendorf

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2026

Name: Wassersport-Verein Bendorf a. Rh. e.V.
Located in: Bendorf am Rhein
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
The white flag was parted by two green horizontal stripes. The field between the stripes was parted by a thin black saltire, on centre superimposed by a black circle charged with a green 6-point star. On hoist was a black inscription in triangle "W.V.B.".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1926, no.1, p.9
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2026

## Bernburger RC

image by Tomislav Šipek and Rob Raeside, 11 Apr 2026

Name: Bernburger Ruderclub
Located in: Bernburg
Established: 1 July 1996
The flag is parted per saltire of red and white. On centre are the city arms, flanked on the white quarters by black embowed inscriptions: "Bernburger"(above) and "Ruderclub"(below).
Source: this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2026

## RK "Hansa"

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2026

Name: Ruderklub "Hansa" E.V.
Located in: Bernburg
Established: 10 January 1892
Dissolved: unknown
The white flag had a dark blue inscription "R.H.B." between two dark blue horizontal stripes. The canton was chequered of nine of dark blue and white.
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1938, no.1, p.16
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2026

## RC "Victoria" Bernburg

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2026

Name: Ruder-Club "Victoria" Bernburg
Located in: Bernburg
Established: 24 January 1890
Dissolved: unknown
The white flag was parted by two blue horizontal stripes. On canton was a horizontal tricolour in the colours of Anhalt, red-white-green. Upon the lower green stripe was a black bear passing on a blue section of a circle, flanked by dotted black initials "V." and "B.".
Source: Wassersport Almanach (year book) 1915, p.22
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2026

## Bernkasteler RV

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2011

Name: Bernkasteler Ruderverein 1874 e.V.
Located in: Bernkastel-Kues
Established: 1 January 1874
The flag is quarterly divided into orangy yellow and black. In its centre is a coat of arms, a modification of the former coat of arms of the city. Black and yellow had been also the colours of the city flag. The coat of arms is quarterly divided showing a black statant bear in a white field in the 2nd and 3rd quarter. The bear in the 3rd quarter is sinister facing. In the 1st and 4th quarter is an upright white key in a red field. The inescutcheon shows the arms of the archbishopric of Trier, a white shield divided by a red cross.
Source: flag chart
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2011

## Binger RG

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Name: Binger Rudergesellschaft 1911 e.V.
Located in: Bingen/Rhein
Established: 15 May 1911
It is a quarterly divided white and blue flag. The white upper hoist is divided by a blue saltire with blue capital letters "B"(top), "R"(hoist) and "G"(flyend). A variant (see right image above) shoes an addtional blue "1911" (bottom).
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1931, no.28, p.632
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2007

## TRV "Rhenania" 1877

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Name: Technischer Ruder Verein "Rhenania" 1877 e.V.
Located in: Bingen/Rhein
Established: trv-rhenania
It is a plain white flag divided by a blue over white over red bend sinister. In the upper hoist there are crossed black oars with black capital letters "T" (top), "R" (hoist), "V"(flyend) and "R"(bottom). In the lower flyend there is a black inscription "Bingen" above a smaller inscription "1897".
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2007

## RV Birkenwerder

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Apr 2026

Name: Ruderverein e.V.
Located in: Birkenwerder (Oberhavel County, Brandenburg)
Established: 1 January 2013
It is a green-white horizontal bicolour.
Source:
Source: DRV online flag chart 2026
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Apr 2026

## Bitterfelder RK

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Jan 2026

Name: Bitterfelder Ruder-Klub e.V.
Located in: Bitterfeld
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
The flag was quartered odf white and red. On centre was a white rectangle with red bordure charged with two red crossed oars and inscription on any quarter as follows: A red 6-point star (top), "B" (hoist), "R" (fly) and "K" (bottom).
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1931, no.46, p.994
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Jan 2026

## RV Bochum

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Jan 2007

Name: Ruderverein Bochum e.V.
Located in: Bochum
Established: 11 August 1920
It is a white flag divided by a blue centred cross. In the centre of the flag is a white roundel fimbriated black, showing crossed hammer and mallet, being the symbol of mining in Germany.
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Jan 2007

## RG Linden-Dahlhausen

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 June 2014

Name: Rudergesellschaft Linden-Dahlhausen e.V.
Located in: Bochum
Established: 29 August 1924
It is a green pennant, parted by a horizontal black line fimbriated white. Shifted to hoist is a white disc cotised black-white-black with black inscription "RG" (1st line) "LD" (2nd line).
Source: flag chart
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Apr 2011

## RV Bodenwerder

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Apr 2011

Name: Ruderverein Bodenwerder von 1922 e.V.
Located in: Bodenwerder (Lower Saxony)
Established: 27 June 1922
It is a blue over red horizontal bicolour, the colours of the old municipal flag. Shifted to the hoist are blue capitals "RVB" put into the corners of a white equilateral triangle fimbriated blue.
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Apr 2011

### RV Bodenwerder Youth

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Mar 2026

The youth department (Jugendabteilung) of the club, established on 15 May 1929, had a flag of its own as follows:
The flag was white parted by a blue over red bend, superimposed by a blue over red bend siniste with additional blue initials on every quarter as follows: "J"(top), "R"(hoist), "V"(fly) and "B"(bottom).
Source: "50 Jahre Jugend-Abteilung Ruderverein Bodenwerder von 1922 eV", Frontpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Mar 2026

## RC "Elbe"

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2025

Name: Ruder-Club "Elbe" e.V.
Located in: Boizenburg /Elbe
Established: unknown
Dissolved: unknown
The flag was white with blue rectangle cotized blue white nearly filling the whole flag. Over all was a blue bend sinister cotized blue white. In upper hoist corner and lower fly corner of the rectangle ere blue 6-point stars. Alongside the upper edge of the bend sinister was a blue inscription "RC Elbe".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1928, no.49, p.1310
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2025

## RC "Germania" Boppard

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Name: Ruderclub "Germania" Boppard e.V.
Located in: Boppard(Rhineland-Palatinate)
Established: 17 May 1922
It is a white flag divided by a centred cotized black cross. In the upperhoist quarter there are dotted black capital letters "R.C.G.B." at the top edge of the flag. In the centre of the flag is a yellow shield with a black eagle armed and tongued red (holy roman empire), superimposed by a white inescutcheon with a red Latin cross (archbishopric and electorate of Trier). In times of establishment it seems to be a rather conservative club. The pattern of the flag is obviously inspired by the imperial German naval flag with the coat of arms of Boppard instead and the abbreviation of the clubs name in the canton.
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2006

## RGm Bottrop

Name: Rudergemeinschaft Bottrop e.V.
Located in: Bottrop
Established: 21 May 1953
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Oct 2007

### flag reported 1977 and 2004

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Oct 2007

The flag looks like 7-stripes black and white variant of the flag of the city of Bremen. But there is a white square canton with black capital letters "RGB" in a triangular formation. Within the 2nd and 3rd black stripe are white fields containing in black capital letters the words "RUDERGEMEINSCHAFT" and "BOTTROP".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Oct 2007

### flag reported 2010

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 01 Jan 2007

The flag looks like 7-stripes version of the flag of the city of Bremen. But there is a white square canton with a the logo of the club.
Description of logo:
The white shield is divided by a red bend sinister superimposed by white capitals "R", "G" and "B". The coat of arms has a white chief divided six times into white and red.
Source: flag chart
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 05 Apr 2011

## TuS Bramsche

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Name: Turn- und Sportverein Bramsche e.V. - Ruderabteilung
Located in: Bramsche (near Osnabrück)
Established: 18 February 1970
t is a red over white over red horizontal triband. In the centre of the flag is the logo, a red heraldic rose lined white in a red shield. Below is a white inscription "TuS BRAMSCHE".
Source: flag chart
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 May 2011

## RAbt. TSV Bremervörde 1863

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Name: Turn- und Sportverein Bremervörde (von 1863)
Located in: Bremervörde (Rotenburg County , Niedersachsen)
Established: 1962 (rowing department)
The green flag (see left image above) is parted by a red isosceles triangle issuant from hoist, over all are two golden oars in saltire, flanked by golden centred inscriptions above "RUDERABTEILUNG"(1st line) "von 1962"(2nd line, smaller) and below "TSV BREMERVÖRDE".
The 1st flag (see right image above) of a joint rowing and canoeing department, reported 2004, was actually a blue pennant. Above were white icons of canoeing and rowing, below in two white horizontal stripes were blue inscriptions "RUDER UND KANUABTEILUNG" and "TSV BREMERVÖRDE".
Sources: Rudersport Almanach 2004, p.231
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2026

## Breisacher RV

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 May 2011

Name: Breisacher Ruderverein e.V.
Located in: Breisach (Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald county)
Established: 1 November 1967
The white flag is divided by a thin red centred cross and has a thin red bordure. In the upper hoist quarter is a red equilateral triangle formed by three lozenges and three smaller triangles at its bottom. In the other quarters is the abbreviation of the club as follows: "B" (upper fly), "R" (lower hoist) and "V" (lower fly).
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 May 2011

## RR "Schaumburgia" Bückeburg

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2011

Name: Ruderriege "Schaumburgia" Bückeburg e.V.
Located in: Bückeburg (near Minden)
Established: 3 November 1965
It is a blue over white over yellow horizontal tricolour.
For further information click: club webpage.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2011

## RC Burg

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2026

Name: Ruder-Club Burg e.V.
Located in: Burg (near Magdeburg)
Established: 1915
Dissolved: unknown
It was a 13-stripes flag parted by alternating blue and white horizontal stripes. On blue canton was a white inscription "RCB".
Source: Wassersport (weekly) 1922, no.3, p.25
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Jan 2026

## WSF Burg 1924

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Name: Wassersportfreunde Burg e.V. 1924
Located in: Burg (near Magdeburg)
Established: 1924 as Verein fÃ¼r freien Ruder- und Kanusport e. V.
The current flag (see left image above) is white with blue edges. On its centre is a blue life belt with rope and blue initial "B" in its centre.
Source: club webpage
The 1st flag (see right image above) was a blue-white horizontal bicolour with logo on centre. The logo was a white oval fimbriated blue with blue waves at its bottom and blue centred inscription "WSF" (1st line) and "Burg 1924" (2nd line, smaller).
Source: Rudersport Almanach 2004, p.234
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2026

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