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# Potsdamer RC Germania (German rowing club)

## Potsdamer Ruder-Club Germania e.V. (PRCG)

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- Potsdamer RC Germania

- Current Flag
- Blade
- Historical Topics

- BRC Germania (1885 - 1961)

- BR-C Titania (1885)
- BR-C Phönix (1885)
- R-C Teutonia (II) (1885)
- R-C Teutonia (I) (1885)

- BRC Batavia (1907 - 1927)
- Potsdamer RC

- Potsdamer RC (1883 - 1945)
- Potsdamer RC (1950 - 1961)

- Potsdamer RG (1911-1940)
- BRV Allemannia (1890 - 1981)

See also:

- Germany
- German rowing clubs
- List of German Rowing Clubs

Source:
If source is not given explicitely, all information is available from Festschrift "100 Jahre Potsdamer Ruder-Club, Germania", Berlin 1983. Special thanks to Corinna Blanckmeister, member of the board of PRCG, who gave me a lot of extra information.

## Potsdamer RC Germania

### Current Flag

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Dec 2008

Name: Potsdamer Ruder-Club Germania e.V. (PRCG)
Located in: Berlin
Established: 25 March 1961
First established: 6 November 1883 as Potsdamer Ruder-Club
Re-established from 1947 - 1950 as Ruder-Club Havel
For further information click: club's website.
Source: Rudersportalmanach 1977
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

Description of flag:
white flag is divided by two horizontal red stripes. In its centre is a modified coat oa arms of the city of Potsdam. A red sinister-facing eagle armed and tongued black is placed onto a yellow field. The shield is topped by a white mural crown masoned black. The flag has a black cotized canton containing a white capital "G".
It is more or less the first flag of former PRC. The canton added is taken from the flag of BRC "Germania".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

### Blade

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,

Description of blade:
It is a white blade. In the lower half is a red device shaped like the blade of a scythe pointing to the shaft.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,

## Historical Topics

Potsdamer Ruder Club became a member of German Rowing Federation (DRV) in 1887 and was the first entry in the newly established club registry of the city of Potsdam in 1900. It was a rowing club for males only. Til today several other rowing clubs merged with or joined the PRCG.
After WWII the club was banned by allied occupation government like any sports club in Germany.
The members tried to re-establish the club in 1947 as "Wannseer Ruder-Club". It was also planned as a new home for the members of former rowing club "Vineta" (also located in Potsdam). Due to difficulties a 2nd constituent meeting took place in the same year. As "Ruder-Club Havel" the club got a licence of the allied government.
In 1950 the club got permission to bear again its proper name "Potsdamer Ruder-Club".
After WWII a close cooperation with BRC "Germania" had been established, which was intensified in 1960. In 1961 the PRC and "Germania" merged forming the new club "Potsdamer Ruder-Club-Germania".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 June 2011

## Former Clubs, which merged with or joined the PRCG:

### BRC Germania (1885 - 1961)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Germania"
Located in: Berlin-Hirschgarten
Established: 27 May 1885
BRC "Germania" was established, when the three ephemeral BRCs of "Titania", "Teutonia" and "Phönix", all established in 1885, had merged in the same year. Those three clubs have nothing to do with the existing club "Phönix", "Teutonia" (today RU Arkona) and "Titania" in Charlottenburg (today Rvg. Hellas-Titania), which all had been established later.

Description of flag:
The flag is divided by a black centred cotized cross. The lower hoist and upper fly quarters are white, the lower fly quarter is red, the upper hoist quarter is black containing a white capital "G".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

#### BR-C Titania

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

Name: Berliner Rider-Club "Titania"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 1 July 1885
It was a 6-stripes flag parted by alternating horizontal white and red stripes. The canton was chequered of 9 squares alternating of red and white.
Source: flag chart of Berliner RC from 1901
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

#### BR-C Phönix

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Phönix"
Located in: Berlin
Established: 8 August 1886
The flag was white parted by a cotised blue saltire with white 8-point star with broad blue fimbriation on centre.
Source: flag chart of Berliner RC from 1901
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

#### R-C Teutonia (II)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

Name: Ruder-Club "Teutonia" (II)
Located in: Berlin
The club was established on 12 August 1885 and merged with "Teutonia" (I) in November 1885.
It was a whhite-blue-white horizontal triband with a white 6-point star on the centre of the blue stripe. The white canton was separated from the rest by two blue lines and charged with a blue stylised initial "T".
Source: flag chart of Berliner RC from 1901
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

#### R-C Teutonia (I)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

Name: Ruder-Club "Teutonia" (I)
Located in: Berlin
Established: as RC "Helonia" but quickly renamed to BRC "Teutonia"
The flag was white. Shifted to fly was a voided blue 6-point star between two horizontal blue stripes. The white canton was separated from the rest by two blue lines and chargesd with a blue stylised initial "T".
Source: flag chart of Berliner RC from 1901
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jan 2026

### BRC Batavia (1907 - 1927)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

Name: Berliner Ruder-Club "Batavia"
Located in: Berlin-Friedrichshagen
Established: 1 July 1907
The club joined BRC "Germania" on 2 March 1927.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 June 2011

It is a black flag divided by ten white rays of a sun. His centre is placed into the upper hoist corner containing a black capital "B".
After the merger "Germania" used its prpoer flag, annexed below the flag of "Batavia" with half height and half width.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 June 2011
Source: Wassersport 1927, no.11, p.173
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 June 2011

### Potsdamer RC

Name: Potsdamer Ruder-Club
Located in: Potsdam
Established: 6 November 1883

#### Potsdamer RC (1883 - 1945)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

It was like the current flag but without canton.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

#### Potsdamer RC (1950 - 1961)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

It was like the first flag but the red stripes had been replaced by light blue ones, taken from the flag of "Vineta". The reason was that both clubs planned to merge.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

### Potsdamer RG (1911-1940)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

Name: Potsdamer Ruder Gesellschaft
Located in: Potsdam
Established: 1911(?)
The club joined the PRC in 1940.

It was a 7-stripes flag with white and black alternating horizontal stripes. The flag had a white bordure and a black canton containing a red sinister facing eagle. PRG was a mixed rowing club.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

### BRV Allemannia (1890 - 1981)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

Name: Berliner Ruder-Verein "Allemannia" e.V.
Located in: Berlin
Established: 9 October 1890
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.
It was a white flag divided by two narrow black horizontal stripes, one in the upper half, the other in the lower half, and a black 6-point-star in the centre of the flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Jun 2011

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