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Merchant flag of German Reich variant with the Iron Cross: 1933–1935: Merchant flag of German Reich (Handelsflagge) A red field, with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45-degree angle. Disc and swastika are exactly in the centre. [citation needed] 1933–1935: Merchant flag of German Reich variant with the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz ...
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When Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz was appointed by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor to rule the then-new Principality of Reuss-Greiz on 12 May 1778, the flag adopted by the Fürstentum Reuß-Greiz was the first-ever appearance of the black-red-gold tricolour in its modern arrangement in any sovereign state within what today comprises Germany ...
During World War II, German prisoners of war who had defected to the Soviet Union and German exiles in the Soviet Union, mainly the members of the Communist Party of Germany, formed the National Committee for a Free Germany, an anti-fascist military and political organization which sought to overthrow the Nazi regime and aided the Red Army in ...
29 May – Oswald Spengler, German historian (died 1936) 25 June – Erich Emminger, German politician (died 1951) 29 June – Ludwig Beck, German general (died 1944) 1 July – Herbert Koch, German archaeologist (died 1962) 3 July – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (died 1967) 11 July. Dorothea Köring, German tennis player (died 1945)
Germany's first national parliament meeting in Frankfurt. The double-headed eagle, now without the haloes of the Holy Roman Emperor's eagle, can be seen. In 1815, a German Confederation (Bund) of 39 loosely united German states was founded on the territory of the former Holy Roman Empire. Until 1848, the confederation did not have a coat of ...
South Baden used the yellow-red-yellow triband as its flag until the state's disestablishment in 1952, when it became part of [1] [2] the modern German state of Baden-Württemberg. The flag is still a common sight in the Baden region today, as it is used by many private citizens. The flag is hoisted at the top of the Karlsruhe castle. [3]
Automobiles with gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were produced independently by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. 1887: 18 June: Germany and Russia signed the secret Reinsurance Treaty, in which each promised benevolent neutrality in the event the other should go to war. 1889: 20 April: Adolf Hitler was born. 1890: 20 March