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# German Yacht Clubs (aa-ak)

## Deutsche Segel- und Motorboot Clubstander (aa-ak)

Last modified: 2026-04-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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- Boot-Sport-Verein Achim-Thedinghausen e.V.
- ADAC Yacht Club (München)
- Segler-Club Aegir (Berlin)
- Freier Segler-Club "Aeolus" e.V. (Danzig)
- Segel-Club "Aeolus" e.V. (Berlin)
- Segel-Club Ahoi (Berlin)
- Segel Club Ahoi Schleswig
- Akademischer Segel-Club zu Berlin
- Akademischer Segelverein Warnemünde e.V.
- Akademischer Segler-Verein (Berlin)
- Akademischer Segler-Verein Danzig
- Akademischer Seglerverein der RWTH in Aachen
- Akademischer Segler-Verein Hamburg
- Akademischer Segler-Verein in Kiel
- Akademischer Segler-Verein in München
- Akademischer Seglerverein zu Greifswald
- Akademischer Seglerverein zu Hannover
- Akademischer Segler-Verein zu Lübeck
- Akademischer Segler-Verein zu Rostock
- Akademischer Yacht-Club Aachen
- Ruder-Club Aken

See also:

- Flags of Yacht Clubs Burgees (overview)
- Germany

## Boot-Sport-Verein Achim-Thedinghausen e.V.

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2020

The pennant is parted per cross into yellow (upper hoist and lower fly), blue (lower hoist) and white (upper fly).
Source: yacht club website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2020

## Freier Segler-Club "Aeolus" e.V.

image by Ivan Sache, 13 Jan 2021

The club was established in 1927 and based in Danzig. The red pennant was parted by a white off-centred cross.
Source: Willy Rothkamm and Willy Ternick: "30 Jahre Freier Segler-Verband 1901 - 1931", Berlin 1931, p.146
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2021

## Segel-Club "Aeolus" e.V.

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 12 Jan 2021

The club was established in 1924 and based in Berlin-Köpenick. The white pennant was parted by a green saltire, flanked by black initials "S" (top), "C" (hoist) and "AE" (connected, fly).
Sources: Willy Rothkamm and Willy Ternick: "30 Jahre Freier Segler-Verband 1901 - 1931", Berlin 1931, p.141 and Eike Stiller: "Der Segelsport in der Arbeitersportbewegung - Zur Geschichte des "Freien Segler Verbandes" (FSV) 1901 - 1933", front cover
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jan 2021

## ADAC Yacht Club (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Aug 2008
based upon a photo located by Jörg M. Karaschewski, 6 Jul 2003

Today the ADAC yacht club probably does no longer exist. My next door neighbour is employee of the club, she doesn't know anything about the existence of the yacht club. Instead there are many other yacht clubs members of the ADAC, which is an automobile club.
Description of flag#1: It is a white triangular pennant, divided by a reddish Scandinavian cross with yellow and black fimbriation (colours of German national flag). The intersection point of crossbars is superimposed by a white roundel with red-yellow-black fimbriation containing a black eagle, surrounded by black capitals in German Fraktur script "ADAC". The horizontal crossbar is shaped like an arrowhead at the flyend. In the upper hoist is a diagonal black anchor with a rope.
Source: Image redrawn from Jörg M. Karaschewski'sphoto

I was reading my car club newsletter where there is a report from 100 years of german national auto-club ADAC. It includes a photo from 50 years celebration held in 1953, showing president Theodor Heuss (first West German president 1949-1959, serving two terms) visiting ADAC. In the background there is a flag of ADAC, vertically displayed - white with black cotized Scandinavian cross on the center of which is a black bordered white disk with black displayed eagle between letters ADAC written in German Fraktur.

What strikes me as odd is that the flag has certainly a political connotation that I find unusual for 1953, though certainly this is not based on the Nazi flag, but the older Imperial banner. Is the flag still used?
Željko Heimer, 27 Jun 2003

Very much like what I saw in 1953 photo. Of course, there the flag was rectangular and without the anchor, but that is quite expected, right. The colours I was not aware, I assumed the "Prussian" cotized cross (i.e. like Imperial naval ensign), but obviously the cross is red with yellow and black borders.
Željko Heimer, 6 Jul 2003

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Aug 2008

Description of flag#2:
Its nearly the same like #1 but not ending in an arrowhead at the fly.
Source: I spotted this flag on 21 October 2007 in HH-Borgfelde

## Segler-Club Aegir

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 25 Jan 2021

The club is based in Berlin. The pennant is blue with two white triangles issuant from top and bottom. Shifted to hoist is a white disc charged with a blue initial "A".
Source: Gunnar Staack: "Flaggen auf Berliner Gewässern", published in "Flaggenkurier No.25", pp.34-40, flag chart 9, row 5 column 4
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jan 2021

## Segel-Club Ahoi (Berlin)

image by Ivan Sache, 5 Jun 2002

White pennant with a red saltire.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 5 Jun 2002

## Segel Club Ahoi Schleswig

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

It is a white pennant with a red cotised cross.
Source: club's website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2009

## Akademischer Segel-Club zu Berlin

image by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

White pennant with a thin black triangle stretching from hoist to fly.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

## Akademischer Segelverein Warnemünde e.V.

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 29 Dec 2020

The pennant is horizontally parted of red and blue, shifted to the hoist is a logo, displaying an anchor connected with an open book in an annulet, all yellow. The logo is that one of the Nautic School of Wustrow, which later moved to Warnemünde. The club is an offspring of HSG Warnemünde, which has the same logo but no proper pennant.
Source: this website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Dec 2020

## Akademischer Segler-Verein (Berlin)

image by Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Three blue-white-red triangles fitted into each other.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

## Akademischer Segler-Verein Danzig

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 29 Jan 2021

The red pennant was cotised white-blue at top and bottom. At hoist were the city arms of Danzig without shield.
Source: "Das akademische Deutschland", vol.4 "Die Wappen der deutschen Korporationen des In- und Auslandes", Berlin 1931, plate 2, row 1 ,column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Jan 2021

## Akademischer Seglerverein der RWTH in Aachen

image by Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

Black pennant with a yellow arrow pointing to the hoist.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2002

### Akademischer Segler-Verein Hamburg

image by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

A pennant quarterly divided by a white saltire, black-red-red-black.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

### Akademischer Segler-Verein Hamburg

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 16 Dec 2020

It is a white triangular pennant, divided in the middle by two blue parallel horizontal lines. Shifted to the hoist the lines are superimposed by a red sail over a white sail.
Source: I spotted this car sticker on 17 November 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Aug 2008

## Akademischer Segler-Verein in Kiel

image by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

Red pennant with a blue chevron fimbriated white.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

## Akademischer Seglerverein in München

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2020

It is a blue pennant, parted by a thin white saltire.
Source: yacht club website.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2020

## Akademischer Seglerverein zu Greifswald

image by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

Three red-white-red triangles fitted into each other. In ordeer to distinguish from pennant of its successorAkademischer Segler-Verein zu Lübeck, the red triangle at hoist was added after 1945.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

Red-white-red are the colours of Greifswald.
Santiago Dotor, 3 Nov 2005

## Akademischer Seglerverein zu Hannover

image by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

White pennant with five red-white-black-white-red (1:1:2:1:1) chevrons.
Source: yacht club website
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

## Akademischer Segler-Verein zu Lübeck

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 12 Dec 2020

It is a white pennant with red bordures at top and bottom. The club was established in 1908 in Greifswald and re-established in 1968 in Lübeck. The pennant is the former one of Akademischer Segler-Verein zu Greifswald. Furthermore red and white are the colours of Lübeck and the Hanseatic League as well.
Source: yacht club website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2020

## Akademischer Segler-Verein zu Rostock

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 29 Dec 2020

The club was established in 1919. Between 1945 and 1990 the club was registered in Hamburg but basically defunct. Instead there existed a sailing department of HSG Rostock, the sports club of the University of Rostock. The club was revived in 1990.
The current pennant is blue, parted by a blue off-centred cross fimbriated white. In ist centre is a yellow oval, charged with a black griffin passant.
Source: yacht club website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Dec 2020

### Pennant 1919 - 1937

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 29 Dec 2020

The pennant was yellow charged with a black griffin passant and blue bordures at top and bottom edge.
Source: yacht club website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Dec 2020

## Akademischer Yacht-Club Aachen

image by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

Or Segeltechnische Arbeitsgruppe an der RWTH-Aachen - Green pennant with an orange arrow head pointing to the fly.
Source: yacht club website.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2002

## Ruder-Club Aken

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2007

Flag of the RCA also in this webpage.
Dov Gutterman, 26 Jan 2002

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