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A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and red. The Flag of the German Empire, or Imperial Flag, Realm Flag ( German: Reichsflagge) is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. Starting as the national flag of the North German Confederation, it would go on to be commonly used officially and unofficially ...
State flag ( Staatsflagge) 1959–1990. Merchant flag ( Handelsflagge) 1973–1990. Tricolour of black, red, and yellow (same as West German colours), but bears the coat of arms of East Germany, consisting of a compass and a hammer encircled with rye. 1963–1990.
German Empire (1848–1849) 1: Frederick William IV was offered the imperial crown, but refused to "pick up a crown from the gutter". [ 3] The German Empire ( German: Deutsches Reich) was a proto-state which attempted, but ultimately failed, to unify the German states within the German Confederation to create a German nation-state.
The national flag of Germany ( German: Flagge Deutschlands) is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold ( German: Schwarz-Rot-Gold ). [ 1] The flag was first sighted in 1848 in the German Confederation.
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
Feldgrau (English: field-grey) is a green–grey color. It was the official basic color of military uniforms of the German armed forces from the early 20th century until 1945 ( West Germany) or 1989 ( East Germany ). Armed forces of other countries also used various shades of that color. Feldgrau was used to refer to the color of uniforms of ...
The term Reichskriegsflagge ( German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌkʁiːksflaɡə], lit. 'Imperial War Flag') refers to several war flags and war ensigns used by the German armed forces in history. A total of eight different designs were used in 1848–1849 and between 1867–1871 and 1945. Today the term refers usually to the flag from 1867–1871 to 1918 ...
t. e. The unification of Germany(German: Deutsche Einigung, pronounced[ˈdɔʏtʃəˈʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ]ⓘ) was a process of building the first nation-statefor Germanswith federal featuresbased on the concept of Lesser Germany(one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).