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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Kieler Yacht-Club e.V. (German YC)]](../images/d/de@kyc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002
According to this website, this yacht club was founded as Marine-Regattaverein in 1887, became the Kaiserlicher Yacht-Club (KYC) in 1891, merged with other Kiel sail clubs into the Yacht-Club von Deutschland by the nationalsocialists in 1937 and refounded as Kieler Yacht-Club in 1946. More information (and current burgee) at the Kieler Yacht-Club website and its club history webpage.
White field with a black Scandinavian cross fimbriated red. The municipal flag of Kiel uses red, white and black but the relationship between the municipal flag and the yacht club burgee is
less than evident.
Ivan Sache, 9 May 2002
Norie and Hobbs 1971 shows under figure 317 the ensign of Kaiserlicher Yachtklub von Deutschland, as the German flag 1871-1918, but with a rope oval around the emblem, fitting both arcs.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001
The current burgee (see Kieler Yacht-Club website) is very similar but omits the imperial crown.
Santiago Dotor, 10 June 2004
The club was located in Kiel. It was established in 1887 as a naval racing/regatta association, changed into a yacht club in 1891(?). The club was pushed after the opening of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Kanal (today: internationalized Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), which ended near Kiel. The club had ca. 1400 members in 1900 and more than 3100 in 1910. The club suffered heavily under WW1, when many members died in service at the armed forces.
Afterwards the club was under pressure of national socialist rule to merge with the other Kiel yacht clubs in order to form the Yacht Club von Deutschland. To avoid merging the club decided its self-dissolution in 1936. Only a few of its members joined the YCvD.
In WW2 there was a repetition of the situation after WW1. The boat house was used since 1945 by the British Kiel Yacht Club. The Kaiserlicher Yacht Club re-established itself in 1945 as Kieler Yacht Club, regained its boat house and the former enemies became friends.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
![[Kaiserlicher Yacht Club (German YC)]](../images/d/de@kyck.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 June 2014
The burgee was the same like that one of Kieler Yacht Club, but a golden imperial crown, which was abolished in 1937, was superimposing the centre of cross.
Source: Siegel 1912, flagchart 27(row 6; column 3)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2009
![[Kaiserlicher Yacht Club - ensign]](../images/d/de@kyken.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Oct 2009
It is an Imperial German merchant ensign, black over white over red horizontal tricolour, with a badge in its centre. The badge is a white oval exceeding to both outer stripes and fimbriated by a yellow rope. In the upper half of the oval is the imperial crown with two scarves, in the lower half an upright anchor with a s-shaped rope and superimposed by a shield showing the imperial eagle in a golden(=yellow) field. All elements are yellow.
Source: Ströhl 1999,opp.p.84, chart XXI, fig.II
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Oct 2009
![[Kaiserlicher Yacht Club - commodore]](../images/d/de@kykcm.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 June 2014
It is a white swallow tail flag, divided by a black cross, fimbriated red. The cross is slightly shifted to the hoist. Upon the centre of cross is a yellow imperial crown. This flag was in fact the personal flag of HM Emperor Wilhelm II.
Sources: [Siegel 1912], flagchart 27(row 6; column 1); [stl99], opp.p.84, chart XXI, fig.III
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2009
![[Kaiserlicher Yacht Club - vice commodore]](../images/d/de@kykvc.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 June 2014
The same like Commodore burgee, but a red ball is added in the upper hoist. This flag was in fact the personal flag of HRH Prince Heinrich of Prussia.
Sources: Siegel 1912, flagchart 27(row 6; column 1) and Ströhl 1999, opp.p.84, chart XXI, fig.IV
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Oct 2009
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