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RTHC Bayer Leverkusen (German rowing club)

RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, Ruder-Riege

Last modified: 2007-12-08 by jarig bakker
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[RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, Ruder-Riege] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Nov 2007 See also:

RTHC Bayer Leverkusen

Name: RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, Ruder-Riege
Located in: Leverkusen
Established: 3 June 1910
Source: Rudersportalmanach 1977
Further information here.
Description of flag :
It is a white flag divided by a blue centred cross. In the canton is a yellow lion, holding a globe between its forefeet with two crossed oars on its back.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Nov 2007

I am afraid this is not borne out by the picture: the oars might well be present in the club’s flag but do not appear here. Rather we are shown a former Bayer brand (Leverkusen, named after chemist Carl Leverkus, was the definite seat of the world famour Bayer chemical factory). See this page dedicated to those symbols (in English): “To illustrate the company's globally successful business operations, the next modification followed in 1895: a lion with *wings* (my emphasis, jm) and the symbolic staff of Mercury rose up over the globe. But foreign customers could make no sense of the image. Furthermore, the company's proper name - "Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co." - was unpronounceable for them. This was partly the reason why a second corporate emblem was added in 1904: the Bayer Cross. This logo was not only legible in every language of the world, but was also recognizable to everyone due to its striking graphic design.”
Jan Mertens, 2 Dec 2007