This list of German flags details flags and standards that have been or are currently used by

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between 1848 and the present. For more information about the current national flag, see

flag of Germany The national flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold (german: Schwarz-Rot-Gold). The flag was first sighted in 1848 in the German Confeder ...

National flags

Standards

Presidential standard

Imperial family standards

Other standards

Military

German Navy

Military and state flags

Non-Governmental flags

Civil ensign

German Scouting flags

Other youth organisations

Sport flags

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Vexillology Associations flags

Flags of German states

Flags of German districts

Flags of German municipalities

Most

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have unique flags. Like state flags, most of them are with either a bicolor or tricolor stipes with or without the emblem ("wappen").

Unofficial regional flags

Political flags

Religious flags

Ethnic groups flags

Historical flags

Francia, Kingdom of Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806)

Teutonic Order State and Prussia (1226–1935)

German Confederation (1815–1866)

North German Confederation (1866–1871)

German Empire (1871–1918)

Weimar Republic (1919–1933)

National Socialist Germany (1933–1945)

The flag with the swastika and white disc centered was used throughout (1920–1945) as the

NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...

flag (). Between 1933 and 1935, it was used as the national flag () and merchant flag () – interchangeably with the black-white-red horizontal tricolour last used (up to 1918) by the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

. In 1935, the black-white-red horizontal tricolour was scrapped again, and the flag with the ''off-center'' swastika and disc was instituted as the only national flag (and was to remain as such until 1945). The flag with the centered disc only continued to be used as the after 1935.

World War II aftermath in Germany

Allied Control Council The Allied Control Council or Allied Control Authority (german: Alliierter Kontrollrat) and also referred to as the Four Powers (), was the governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany and Allied-occupied Austria after the end of ...

(1945–1949) and

Saar Protectorate The Saar Protectorate (german: Saarprotektorat ; french: Protectorat de la Sarre) officially Saarland (french: Sarre) was a French protectorate separated from Germany; which was later opposed by the Soviet Union, one side occupying Germany lik ...

East Germany (1949–1990)

Baden-Württemberg

Baden

Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Leyen

Württemberg

Bavaria

Other countries in today's Bavarian lands

Brandenburg

East Frisia

Hesse

Lower Saxony

Brunswick

Hanover

Oldenburg

Schaumburg-Lippe

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

North Rhine-Westphalia

Lippe

Other

Rhineland-Palatinate

Palatinate

Mainz

Trier

Saarland

Palatinate

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Anhalt

Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen

Schleswig-Holstein

Heligoland

Holstein

Lübeck

Saxe-Lauenburg

Schleswig

Thuringia

Reuss

Saxe-Altenburg

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Saxe-Meiningen

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Other

Historic flag proposals

Note:

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's proposal of 1919 and those of Josef Wirmer in 1944 and of his brother Ernst in 1948 are clearly modeled on the Nordic Cross flags used in all Nordic countries – the flags of

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and

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National flags

Standards

Presidential standard

Imperial family standards

Other standards

Military

German Navy

Military and state flags

Non-Governmental flags

Civil ensign

German Scouting flags

Other youth organisations

Sport flags

Vexillology Associations flags

Flags of German states

Flags of German districts

Flags of German municipalities

Unofficial regional flags

Political flags

Religious flags

Ethnic groups flags

Historical flags

Francia, Kingdom of Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806)

Teutonic Order State and Prussia (1226–1935)

German Confederation (1815–1866)

North German Confederation (1866–1871)

German Empire (1871–1918)

Weimar Republic (1919–1933)

National Socialist Germany (1933–1945)

World War II aftermath in Germany

East Germany (1949–1990)

Baden-Württemberg

Baden

Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Leyen

Württemberg

Bavaria

Bavaria

Other countries in today's Bavarian lands

Brandenburg

East Frisia

Hesse

Lower Saxony

Brunswick

Hanover

Oldenburg

Schaumburg-Lippe

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

North Rhine-Westphalia

Lippe

Other

Rhineland-Palatinate

Palatinate

Mainz

Trier

Saarland

Palatinate

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Anhalt

Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen

Schleswig-Holstein

Heligoland

Holstein

Lübeck

Saxe-Lauenburg

Schleswig

Thuringia

Reuss

Saxe-Altenburg

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Saxe-Meiningen

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Other

Historic flag proposals

Nazi Germany occupations (1939–1945)

German colonial empire (1884–1918)

House Flags