In 1898 the club joined the German Rowing Association, and in 1913 it was one of the founding members of the Cologne Regatta Union.

[3] Overall, the club experienced its most successful racing years in the economic boom of the Golden Twenties celebrating German championships in 1926 and 1927 in various boat categories.

[4] In 1992, the club was honored by the German federal president Richard von Weizsäcker for its special services to the care and development of rowing in Germany.

For its training, the club uses the river Rhine and the artificial Otto Maigler Lake in the suburbs of Cologne.

[6] Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the club canceled all its activities in the first half of 2020 for some months, but returned to training sessions in autumn and took part at the remotely organized Head of the Charles Regatta.