The Heidelberger Ruderklub (Heidelberger RK or HRK for short) is a German rowing club and rugby union club from Heidelberg , currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga .
34-548: The club is one of four professional rugby clubs in Germany. The turn to professionalism in a sport otherwise fully amateur in Germany was made possible through the support of Hans-Peter Wild , who owns a soft drink manufacturing business. Heidelberger RK was to become the first German club to take part in either of the two major European rugby union competitions after they qualified for the 2018-19 European Rugby Challenge Cup via winning their semi-final against Timișoara Saracens in
68-586: A closely fought final, winning 12-9. Having won the men's national cup and sevens championship as well as the national championship and sevens championship with the women's, the HRK took out all five available national titles in 2010-11. In 2011-12, the club also took part in the North Sea Cup , a European Cup competition made up of two clubs each from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The club once more finished top of
102-679: A fruit juice manufacturer based in Zug , Switzerland . Until 2014, he was the majority shareholder in the company in Wild Flavors , one of the leading manufacturers of natural flavours for the food industry. Hans-Peter Wild lives in Zug and is one of the richest people in Switzerland. Hans-Peter Wild, the son of Rudolf Wild and Leonie Wild, was born in Heidelberg in 1941. He passed the first state examination as
136-561: A lack of home ground, the HRK formed a youth department and moved to the Sportgelände an der Speyererstraße in 1961, which is still its current home. This development soon bore fruit and the club earned three championships in the 1970s, also qualifying for the new Rugby-Bundesliga in 1971. The club continued to be a force in German rugby well into the 80's, earning its last championship in 1986. After
170-667: A lawyer in Heidelberg with distinction. He completed a degree in business studies in Mannheim , majoring in fiscal law and auditing, and earned an MBA. He spent two years studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Cambridge before completing a PhD entitled “The market-dominating company under French law” at the Faculty of Law at the University of Mannheim . After graduation, he worked for
204-436: A period of decline, it found itself in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga, where it was promoted from back to the first division in 1997. After a short stint in this league, the team had to return to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2000, where it was to remain for the next couple of seasons. The club dominated the 2nd Bundesliga South/West in 2004-05, winning all 16 regular season games, the largest win being a 146-5 victory over BSC Offenbach . In
238-481: A place in the 2016–17 European Rugby Challenge Cup . After two away wins the club played its first home game against Belgian side Kituro, which it won, thereby also opening its new home ground which has an artificial turf surface. Heidelberg lost its final game of the competition to Timișoara and was eliminated. In the Bundesliga Heidelberg completed the regular season unbeaten and defeated SC Germania List in
272-505: The 2017-18 European Rugby Continental Shield . European Professional Club Rugby announced that Heidelberger would be excluded as they were under the ownership of Wild, who was simultaneously the owner of another Challenge Cup side, Stade Francais . Following the decision, Wild announced he was withdrawing support for the club. The club's origins date back to 1872, when, on 9 May, the Deutschen Flaggen-Club Heidelberg
306-614: The STEM fields of study . In Mannheim, Wild financed a programme together with the university foundation that hopes to attract new scientific talent. In the area of intensive medicine, the University Hospital of Zürich is working on various projects that are financed via donations from Hans-Peter Wild. In 2001, Hans-Peter Wild endowed Wild Chair for Family Business at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) ,
340-545: The Bremen family business Diersch & Schröder for four years as managing director, being responsible for the company's mineral oil, chemistry, and shipping activities. In 1974, he joined his parents’ company, Wild . Hans-Peter Wild continued the international expansion of the company in the field of flavours and the Capri-Sun brand. In 1979, he signed boxing world champion Muhammad Ali as an advertising ambassador, transforming
374-755: The Eppelheim and in the Rhine-Neckar region. In 2016, Hans-Peter Wild donated US$ 16.5 million to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation in recognition of the contribution of the US military during World War II and in appreciation of the liberation of Germany from the Nazis. Hans-Peter Wild is a patron of the Astona Summer Music Academy , which offers talented young musicians from various countries
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#1733085681856408-468: The North Sea Cup. HRK finished first in their group in the 2012-13 season and qualified for the south/west division of the championship round, where it also came first. The club won its fourth consecutive German championship defeating SC Neuenheim 41-10 in the final. In the North Sea Cup the club reached the final where it defeated Belgian club Boitsfort Rugby Club 34-10 to take out the competition for
442-595: The US group Archer Daniels Midland . Not included in this deal were all Capri-Sun companies and the Eppelheim -based mechanical engineering company Indag (today: Pouch Partners), Wild's technology subsidiary that produces, among other things, filling and packaging machines for Capri-Sun and other pouches like petfood. These companies remained in Wild's ownership. Via the family office, Wild Group Management, in Zug , Hans-Peter Wild controls numerous other direct company holdings in
476-478: The areas of biotechnology and disruptive technologies, In addition to his industrial holdings, Wild also owns the two luxury hotels in Salzburg: Goldener Hirsch and Schloss Mönchstein. Wild is president of the “Leonie Wild Charitable Foundation”, which he initiated together with his mother in 1997. The foundation helps citizens in need and is involved in social and cultural projects, particularly in
510-413: The club beat SC Neuenheim , to reach its first national championship final since 1986, where it narrowly lost 11-8 to SC 1880 Frankfurt . The following season, HRK finished third in the league but reached the final once more, this time defeating SC 1880 39-22 in extra time, to earn its first national championship since 1986. It repeated this achievement in 2010-11 when it defeated Frankfurt once more in
544-400: The club's list of German internationals. Felix Lammers marked his first regular season of international rugby with a try in the 18-26 defeat against Russia in Heidelberg on March 2, 2019 in week 3 of the 2019 Rugby Europe Championship . Hans-Peter Wild Hans-Peter Wild (born 16 June 1941) is a German-born Swiss businessman and lawyer. Wild is the owner and chairman of Capri-Sun
578-753: The club's list of internationals. In the 2010–12 campaign , Raphael Pyrasch , Pieter Jordaan , Alexander Widiker , Arthur Zeiler , Daniel Armitage , Sean Armstrong and Kehoma Brenner were all new additions to the club's list of German internationals, while Patrick Schliwa, Anjo Buckman, Steffen Liebig and Tim Kasten appeared again. For the opening match of the 2012–14 edition of the ENC against Ukraine Sean Armstrong, Anjo Buckman, Pieter Jordaan, Alexander Widiker, Arthur Zeiler, Steffen Liebig, Kehoma Brenner and Rafael Pyrasch where once more selected while Benjamin Danso , Raynor Parkinson and Samy Füchsel were new additions to
612-598: The employees of his company and the social facilities in Eppelheim and the region. RK Nada RK Nada (full name Ragbi klub Nada , English : Rugby Club Nada ) is a rugby union club from Split , Croatia . It participates in the Croatian Rugby Championship , the Croatian Rugby Cup and the Regional Rugby Championship . The club was founded on February 23, 1959. Club seat is on
646-511: The final against the North/East champion DSV 78/08 Ricklingen , an 18-6 victory meant promotion back to the Bundesliga. Since then, the club has existed as a lower table side in the league, sitting just above the relegation zone. In 2008-09 , the club's performance has much improved and a second place saw the team return to the German finals for the first time in over 20 years. In the semi-finals,
680-500: The first time. The club remained unbeaten during the 2013–14 regular season, finishing first in the south-west championship round, receiving a bye for the first round of the play-offs and advancing to the finals after victories over RK 03 Berlin and Berliner RC . Heidelberg won its fifth consecutive title when it defeated TV Pforzheim 43–20 in Pforzheim. In the 2014–15 season the club once again remained unbeaten and finished first in
714-466: The league below, the 2nd Bundesliga South/West, but stepped down to the third level for 2012–13. The club also has a successful women's team, which plays at the highest level in Germany, the Women's Rugby Bundesliga , but it took the team until 2010 to win a national championship at this level. Since then the clubs women's team has won five consecutive national championships from 2010 to 2014. It has however won
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#1733085681856748-710: The national rugby team. In sporting terms, through the support of the Wild Rugby Academy, he managed to bring the men's national team almost as far as qualification for the Rugby World Cup . However, he terminated his collaboration with the German Rugby Federation in 2017 as he found their organisational structures insufficiently professional to achieve success on an international scale. In order to better understand professional structures in rugby and due to his affinity with his former university town, he acquired
782-477: The national sevens championship in the past. Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality. Recent seasons of the club: In Germany 's 2006–08 European Nations Cup campaign , no player from the club was called up for the national team. In the 2008–10 campaign , Anjo Buckman , Christopher Liebig , Steffen Liebig , Patrick Schliwa and Tim Kasten were new additions to
816-553: The opportunity every year to make music under the guidance of renowned teaching staff, and perfect their instrumental skills. He also supports the Salzburg Festival and is a member of the board of trustees of the Heidelberger Frühling foundation, which holds an annual international music festival and also offers a mentoring scheme for talented young musicians. In the area of science promotion, Hans-Peter Wild supports
850-474: The originally German company into an international corporation. In preparation for the possible listing of the flavourings division on the stock exchange, in 2010, Hans-Peter Wild sold a minority share of 35% in Rudolf Wild GmbH & Co. KG to the financial investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With effect as of the end of 2014, Wild and KKR sold the by then Swiss parent company Wild Flavors to
884-404: The play-off semi-finals but suffered a surprise 41–36 defeat to TV Pforzheim in the final. Two further title wins ensued, 2017 against TV Pforzheim and 2018 against RG Heidelberg . The regular season 2018-2019 was concluded by clinching the third place and as the only side beating the 2019 national champion SC 1880 Frankfurt in a league game. The club's reserve side has played for many years in
918-505: The previous year, facing the Croatian champions RK Nada in the semi-finals, which HRK won 43–0. The club consequently qualified for the final against Lithuanian club RC Šiauliai who had knocked out SC 1880 in the semi-finals, winning this game and the competition 60–10. The European Clubs Championship is open to the winners of the Baltic and Balkan Cups as well as the winners and runners-up of
952-576: The private business school in Lausanne. In 1980, Hans-Peter Wild acquired a cycling team from the Belgian ice cream manufacturer Ijsboerke and renamed it Capri Sun – Koga Miyata . The cycling team was disbanded in 1982. In 2007, he established the charitable Wild Rugby Academy foundation for promoting rugby in Germany , with the aim of raising German rugby to a world-class level. In addition to promoting youth rugby, Hans-Peter Wild also focused on supporting
986-633: The renowned top-league French rugby club Stade Français Paris from the French entrepreneur Thomas Savare. He has been the club's Président du Conseil d’Administration since 2019. Wild has been honorary senator of Heidelberg University since 1996, and in 2004, he received the Bayerischer Bierorden (Bavarian Beer Award). The town of Eppelheim made him an honorary citizen in June 2006 for his entrepreneurial achievements and his many years of commitment to
1020-429: The rules of rugby into German. It is from this beginnings that the HRK claims to be the oldest rugby club in Germany. This is true in the sense that it is the oldest rugby-playing club in Germany but other clubs have an older rugby department. The club had a golden era in the late 1920s, when it reached the German championship final three years in a row, winning the title in 1927 and 1928. After years of stagnation and
1054-578: The south-west championship group once more. It defeated TV Pforzheim in the final of the German championship after play-off wins over TSV Handschuhsheim and RG Heidelberg. HRK thereby equaled Victoria Linden's record of six consecutive German championships. In 2015–16 Heidelberger RK participated in the European Rugby Challenge Cup Qualifying Competition , competing against Grupo Desportivo Direito , Mogliano Rugby , Royal Kituro Rugby Club and Timișoara Saracens for
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1088-515: The table in the league in 2011-12, losing only one of its 18 games, reaching the final for a fourth consecutive time, but facing TV Pforzheim there rather than SC 1880 Frankfurt, its opposition in the previous three finals. HRK won the final 20-16 and won its ninth German championship. In the 2012–13 season the club took part in the European Clubs Championship, a new competition, on the strength of its North Sea Cup runners-up finish in
1122-515: The universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim , as well as the University Hospital of Zürich and the Johns Hopkins Hospital . The EU Human Brain Project , launched in 2013, is intended to improve understanding of brain structures and functions with the aid of artificial intelligence. The Heidelberg scholarship programme Hans-Peter Wild Talent Scholarship is oriented towards young people in
1156-530: Was formed, a rowing club. In the early days, several rowing clubs were formed in Heidelberg and disappeared again, but the remaining ones merged in 1875 to form the Heidelberger Ruderclub , under the leadership of the Flaggen-Club . The game of rugby was introduced in the club in the early 1890s by Edward Hill Ullrich, who was partly of English descend and had a great love of "English" games, translating
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