Mission

… free and yet responsible

That's what defines our club. We stand for a relaxed atmosphere, for the freest possible way of doing things and the fewest possible constraints. And yet we live with an awareness of the community that makes so much possible for us as individuals. A taking, but also a giving … we're not just figuratively „all in the same boat“.

It's not the things – it's the people who make the club …

… or is it just clubbiness for its own sake?

A club (etymologically: from „vereinen“, to unite, to become one and to bring things together) is a voluntary and long-term association of natural and/or legal persons in pursuit of a particular purpose.

In its original form, this association is first of all a pure community of purpose. It enables individual people to do things they couldn't do alone – whether in terms of material or non-material challenges. Only a community makes it possible to overcome challenges that an individual could manage only with difficulty, or not at all.

Club vs. individual

… you have to give up your individuality, surely. And that at a time when individuality is touted everywhere as the greatest and most important asset.

Every action of every individual aims to satisfy one or more needs. Sure: eating, drinking, sleeping … basic needs. If our needs go unmet for too long, we get ill. We humans are social beings by nature and long for appreciative, emotional connection with one another. These connections are among our basic needs.

That's why we humans are also happy to enrich the lives of others of our own free will, because in doing so we also fulfil our own need for contact, belonging and appreciation. We humans live in good relationships when we support one another in meeting our needs.

The pursuit of sporting, recreational, social and charitable interests therefore holds a very high place in our lives: for physical and mental well-being, as a way to unwind, for recovery, for building social contacts and for achieving the feeling of doing something good and being needed. All basic needs of every individual.

The well-being of every individual in harmony with the community is therefore what matters most. The need of the individual is not at odds with the need of the community.

Just as in a boat: together in sync, the shared rhythm, the length of the stroke – only the optimal interplay of all team members allows the boat to run at its best … and it's no different in a community. The association thrives on everyone joining in.

Our goal can be put like this

Learning, practising and developing our sports, fostering our own health and fostering the community and the social spirit, as well as sharing the necessary tasks together, as fairly distributed as possible.

Charitable and at the same time self-serving. Voluntary and responsible. Our ideal picture of a club therefore includes: a peaceful, mutually respectful and mutually supportive togetherness in pursuit of the same or similar interests.