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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. Hanging state flag (Bannerflagge) 1955–1973.
The black-white-red flag[1] (German: Schwarz-Weiß-Rot[2]), also 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 ...
The empire was founded on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, France, where the south German states, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force on 16 April, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of ...
It used a slightly different aspect ratio than the previous flag of the German Empire. 3:5 National flag and naval jack of Germany (1935–1945). An alternate centre-disc version used by the Nazi Party was the co-official party flag along with the tricolour national flag (1933–1935).
The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia.These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federal states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in the Bundesrat, which gave them representation at a federal level.
German Reich (lit. 'German Empire, German Realm' from German: Deutsches Reich, pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈʁaɪç] ⓘ) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 18 January 1871 to 5 June 1945. The Reich became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German Volk ...
German Empire: 1918–1933 Weimar Republic: 1933–1935 Nazi Germany: 1935–1945 1949– Germany See also: List of German flags: 1949–1959 East Germany: 1959–1990 1804–1867 Austrian Empire: Stripes of red and white have been a collective emblem of Austria for over 800 years, and they were first used on the flag in 1191.
This is a list of Imperial German infantry regiments [1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry (plus the instruction unit, Lehr Infantry Battalion). Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th Century, while others were only formed as late as October 1912. [2]