Historical flags (Germany)

Last modified: 2002-06-14 by santiago dotor
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National Historical Flags:

• Introduction to pre-1815 flags
• Holy Roman Empire 962-1806 (Heiliges Römisches Reich deutscher Nation, Sacrum Romanorum Imperium nationis Germanicae)
  • Rhine Customs Administration 1805-1806 (Rheinzollverwaltung, France and Germany)
• German Confederation 1815-1852 (Deutscher Bund)
  • Prince Adalbert's 1849 Proposals
• North German Confederation 1867-1871 (Norddeutscher Bund)
• German Empire 1871-1919 (Deutsches Reich)
  • Subnational Flags 1871-1919
  • Former Colonies and other Overseas Territories
• Weimar Republic 1919-1933
  • Weimar Republic Flags 1921-1933
  • Subnational Flags 1919-1933
• Third Reich 1933-1945
  • Flags used 11th March 1933 - 15th September 1935
  • Flags used 15th September 1935 - 8th May 1945
  • National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP / Nazi Party)
• Occupied Germany 1945-1949
  • Proposals 1944-1949
    
• German Democratic Republic 1949-1989 (Deutsche Demokratische Republik / East Germany)
• Federal Republic of Germany 1949-nowadays (Bundesrepublik Deutschland / West Germany 1949-1989)
• Provisional Flags for the New States used in 1990

Main Subnational Flags:

• Baden-Württemberg Historical Flags
• Bavaria (Bayern) Historical Flags
• Bremen Historical Flags
• Brunswick (Braunschweig) Historical Flags
• Hamburg Historical Flags
• Hanseatic Cities (Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland)
• Hanover (Hannover) Historical Flags
• Heligoland (Helgoland) Historical Flags
• Hesse (Hessen) Historical Flags
• Lippe Historical Flags
• Lübeck Historical Flags
• Mecklenburg Historical Flags
• Oldenburg Historical Flags
• Prussia (Preussen) Historical Flags
• Historical Flags of Rhineland States
• Schaumburg-Lippe Historical Flags
• Saxony (Sachsen) Historical Flags
• Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) Historical Flags
• Schleswig-Holstein Historical Flags
• Thuringia (Thüringen) Historical Flags
• Waldeck-Pyrmont Historical Flags

Other territories:

• Aremberg 1771-1810
• Berg 1806-1810 (Grand Duchy of Berg / Grossherzogtum Berg)
• Frankfurt 1833-1866 (Freie Stadt Frankfurt)
• Lippe 1815-1918 (Principality of Lippe / Fürstentum Lippe)
• Mömpelgard 1470-1793 (County of Mömpelgard / Grafschaft Mömpelgard)
• Mulhouse 1770-1798 (Mühlhausen)
• Nassau 1806-1866 (Duchy of Nassau / Herzogtum Nassau)
• Palatinate 14th-18th Centuries (Pfalz)
• Cisrhenian Republic 1797
• Rhine Republic 1806
• Rhine Republic 1921-1924
• Saarland 1947-1956
• Salm-Salm 1386-1811 (Principality of Salm-Salm / Fürstentum Salm-Salm)
• Trier 14th Century - 1797 (Archbishopric of Trier / Erzbistum Trier)
• Waldeck-Pyrmont 1815-1918 (Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont / Fürstentum Waldeck-Pyrmont)
• Würzburg before 1815

See also:

• Historical use of the current flag
• Germany

Before ca. 1815 national flags and Landesfarben or civil flags etc. were not known i.e. not in use in Germany, there are only a few exceptions.

Ralf Stelter, 15 February 2001