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The Schlimbach Prize the outstanding sailors for recognition of special achievements in memory of the Kiel sailor Ludwig Schlimbach (born September 18, 1876, Munich, † January 13, 1949) [first] awarded by the Kiel Yacht Club (KYC). The Foundation of the Prize should be promoted.

The Schlimbach Prize was considered the highest German award in the Hochsee sailing. The trophy is the so -called crown compass from 1937, a compass that can be read from below “, which is assembled under a silver crown instead of hanging on the cabin ceiling. He was awarded November 1937 Ludwig Schlimbach by the “Marinestadt” Kiel for special services.

After Schlimbach’s death in 1949, the Kronenompass was donated as an honorary award in accordance with his legacy and first awarded in 1953. Schlimbach wrote the following:

“The” crown compass “dedicated to me by the city of Kiel goes as a” Schlimbach Memorial Prize “to the Yachtklub of Germany and is to be awarded every year the yacht sailor (leader of the yacht) who always arises from my day of death-the one in the past year The largest route under sail (without engine use) in the North Sea, Atlantic, Mediterranean and further covered. Canal, Baltic Sea and river trip don’t count. ”

Already for the first award in 1953, the award criteria defined in the legacy were fundamentally changed: It is not the deep -sea sailor with the lens’s longest journey, but the one who had accomplished the subjectively “most outstanding sailor performance”. For Schlimbach, however, the success of the longest journey was the implicit proof of outstanding seamanship. It was unimaginable for him that a “longest journey” with poor seamanship can be successfully completed. The relocation took place to counteract a mere record hunting. Many with the life and foundation goal of Schlimbach, to help the German High Sea Sailing to help more reputation, appeared to many with the life and foundation goal.

As a result, services in the context of regattas were generally not taken into account, since regattas per se were declared unsealing because the decisions of ship leaders can also have different motivations as nautical motives.

Furthermore, sole trips / one -hand sailing were rejected. This was done for both political reasons (sailing should be presented as a sport of courageous German men’s teams) and from social (a selfish in a boat, where so many would like to sail) and maritime reasons (consciously entering risks that are with a team would not give). With this attitude, too, the jury of the Schlimbach Prize was characteristic of German sailing after the war. However, the fact that Schlimbach’s best -known performance was a one -handed atlantic crossing. It was only when the performance of one -hand sailors with increasing admiration was perceived in public, this exclusion criterion slowly confessed.

The jury also reserved to evaluate the selection of the vehicle used according to sailor criteria, not the boat itself, but the fact that it was selected for this trip. This did not exclude trips on outdated “soul sellers”, but on new boats. The objective of the jury was traced with the following logic: Anyone who plans and carries out their journey with a vehicle or vehicle type, which is not expressly considered and safe, acts grossly negligent, so that it is not an outstanding sailor. The same was true for the equipment. This means that all pioneers of technical development in sailing were excluded from the award ceremony. This affected trips on which a spinnaker, a self -tax system or electric navigation device was used, travel with plastic boats, boats with a shared lateral plan, so -called short keel, in which the rudder is not attached to the back edge of the keel, and above all trips with multi -hull boats. The expression of this attitude was the refusal of the jury in 1970 to award the price at all, since the only candidate disqualified several times despite a much -noticed and outstanding sailor performance: he was female (Ingeborg von Heister, the mother -in -law of Wilfried Erdmann) and sailed with one hand a trimaran. The traditionally jury-friendly reporting in the specialist press (the yacht) triggered a real war of faith among the audience, at the end of which the reputation of the Schlimbach Prize was the main loser.

Much too late and too half -heartedly, an evaluation took a back seat from the aspect of traditional technicalism and could never be conveyed credibly. While more and more successful trips did not meet the formal and ideological criteria of the jury, the importance of the price in public decreased, since it was less and less identified with the honored and their services.

A special chapter is how to deal with Wilfried Erdmann after his mother -in -law was already refused in 1970. After his non-stop-one-hand glory, he refused to fully disclose his logbook, since he also led it as his personal diary. As a result, he was excluded from the award. In 2000/2001, Erdmann made another non-stop-one-hand glory, this time in the opposite direction against the prevailing wind direction and is therefore the only person who accomplished two non-stop-one-hand glory with the same boat in both directions. He rejected the offer that the jury has brought to him this time to give him the price because he had reached everything for himself and no longer needed prices. [2]

The ceremony of the Kronekompass has been exposed to the Kiel Yacht Club, which perceives blurred dividing lines between sports and commerce and sees the increasing number of high -sea stations as a difficulties for a selection of the award winner. In addition, there were less and less top -class applications, since the reputation of the price had suffered greatly from the controversial award decisions mentioned. [3] The crown compass is in the so -called silver treasure of the Kiel Yacht Club.

The fact that the award is ended is certainly the reason that despite a multitude of trips according to the foundation of the foundation of 1953 and 1996, hardly any adequate candidates can be found and a change in the sense of the founder towards an award of the most remarkable performance in German Hochseesesail sport is categorically rejected.

Since the Schlimbach Prize was awarded, the “Golden Compass” of the sailing camaraderie “The Coat of Coat of Bremen” and the Trans-Ocean Prize of the Trans-Ocean Association based in Cuxhaven has been the highest award in Germany.

  • 1953 Rolf Schmidt
  • 1954 Rolf Schmidt
  • 1955 Klaus Hegewisch
  • 1956 Hans Dienst
  • 1957 Kurt Fischer
  • 1958 Wolfgang Grün
  • 1959 Claus Schröder
  • 1960 Klaas Hinrich Pflüger
  • 1961 Mike Sparenborg
  • 1962 Peter Gottwald
  • 1963 Heinz A. Krüger
  • 1964 Meno Sell-shells
  • 1965 Wolfram Aurin
  • 1966 Wilhelm Stoess
  • 1967 Ernst-Jürgen Koch (circumnavigation of the world)
  • 1968 Uwe Ernst
  • 1969 Erich Koppen
  • 1970 no award
  • 1971 Jens Hinzpeter
  • 1972 Ekhart Hahn
  • 1973 Götz Schreiber (first German yacht sailor around Cape Horn)
  • 1974 Reinhard Laucht Skipper: Peter von Gdansk (1936)
  • 1975 Günther Hormann
  • 1976 Götz-Anders Nietzsch
  • 1977 Werner Wommelsdorf
  • 1978 Dieter Markworth
  • 1979 Joachim Schult and Joachim Schult (father and son)
  • 1980 Herbert Gieseking
  • 1981 Harm-Hinrich Rotermund
Awarding of the Ludwig-Schlimbach Prize 1982
  • 1982 Heide and Erich Wilts
  • 1983 Rainer Persch
  • 1984 Detlef Martens (one-handed global conference)
  • 1985 Reimer Böttger (around South America)
  • 1986 Martin Güldner
  • 1987 Sigmund Zander
  • 1988 Christian Masilge
  • 1989 Dietrich Petersen
  • 1990 Gudrun Calligaro (one-handed world regulation)
  • 1991 Wolfgang Quix
  • 1992 Christian Woge
  • 1993 Christoph Bauch
  • 1994 Dieter Wassermann
  • 1995 Rudolf being
  • 1996 no award
  • 1997 Hans-Jürgen Trautmann
  • 1998 no award
  • 1999 no award
  • 2000 Jochen Orgelmann
  • 2001 Wolfgang Quix [2]

Joachim Schult: In Schlimbach’s keel water . A chronicle of the Upper Sea Sailing Sports from 1950 to 1976 with the 150 trips of sailors and boats, which were awarded the Schlimbach Prize or applied for it. Among other things, the Trans-Ocean Prize, the Trans-Ocean Medal or the Blue Water Medal received (= Blue-car . No. 5 ). Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1977, ISBN 978-3-7979-1885-7.

  1. ↑ Georg Lauritzen: Ludwig Schlimbach-memory chronicle . 1959. Quoted from Hans Blöss: Citizens of the oceans and seas , Band 1: Before the mast . Verlag Christian Blöss, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-93437-801-8, pp. 81ff.
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Beilken: Schlimbach Prize to Wolfgang Quix. In: Yacht Online. February 20, 2002, accessed on October 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kieler Yacht Club: Schlimbach’s legacy is fulfilled. In: www.detlef-martens.com. Accessed on October 8, 2019 .