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GERMANY
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Official name:
Federal Republic of Germany
*German / Bundesrepublik deutschland
Capital: Berlin
Idiom: German
Form of Government: parliamentary federal republic
Currency: Euro
Demonym: German/-na * German/-na Tudesco/-ca
Administrative divition: 16 States
FLAG
The current flag of Germany is one of the most important symbols of this country. It was designed at the beginning of the 19th century, but had previously been used during the times of the Germanic Confederation (1848-1866) and the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). After World War II, the flag was adopted by both the German Democratic Republic and West Germany, remaining identical until 1959, the year in which the state coat of arms was added to the GDR.
National flag
Ratio: 3 x 5
The black, red, and gold represent the colors of the uniform worn by German soldiers, called Freikorps, during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a black uniform adorned with gilt copper buttons and red decorations. These colors had already served as a password for a student society in Jena in 1817. Banned, they reappeared in 1832 on the pennants brandished by the crowd during the great demonstration in Hambach. German national colors were declared in 1848, but their use as a flag was not continuous: it disappeared under the government of Otto von Bismarck and then under the regime of Adolf Hitler, to reappear after the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, after the Second World War. World War.
The colors of the modern flag are associated with the republican democracy formed after World War II and represent German unity and freedom.
OTHER FLAGS
The German national flag or Bundesflagge containing only the three stripes black, red and gold was introduced in the 1949 West German Constitution. Following the creation of the government and military flags in later years, the simple tricolor has been used as a civil ensign. It is also used by non-federal authorities (for example, the various federal states that make up Germany) to show their connection to the federal government.
GOVERNMENT FLAG
The government flag of Germany is officially known as the Dienstflagge der Bundesbehörden (service flag of the federal authorities) or Bundesdienstflagge (federal service flag) for short. It was introduced in 1950 and consists of a shield known as the Bundesschild (federal shield) which is superimposed on the tricolor bands. The Bundesschild is a variant of the German coat of arms, the main differences being the illustration of the eagle and the shape of the crest: the Bundesschild is round while the standard is not. The government flag can only be used by government authorities and its use by civilians is a crime punishable by a fine.
Government Flag
Ratio: 3 x 5
NAVAL PAVILION
Currently, the war flag (Kriegsflagge) corresponds to a modified version of the flag used by the federal authorities, since it has a triangular shape on the outside. Throughout history, Germany has had various emblems for its military forces, which generally correspond to modified versions of its national flags.
Naval Pavilion
Ratio: 3 x 5
CONSTRUCTION
To : 5 | B : 1
COLORS
33 %
Black
HEX CODE
# 000000
33 %
Red
HEX CODE
# dd0000
33 %
Golden
HEX CODE
# ffce00
HISTORY
Holy Roman Empire flag
Roman Germanic
1410
Holy Roman Empire flag
Roman Germanic
1410
flag of the
German empire
1871 - 1918
flag of the
Third Reich
1935 - 1945
flag of the
German empire
1871 - 1918
flag of the
Third Reich
1935 - 1945
flag of the
German empire
1871 - 1918
flag of the
Third Reich
1935 - 1945
flag of the
German empire
1871 - 1918
flag of the
Third Reich
1935 - 1945
flag of the
German empire
1871 - 1918
flag of the
Third Reich
1935 - 1945
REGIONAL FLAGS
flag of the
State
Baden - Württemberg
flag of the
State
bavaria
flag of the
State
berlin
flag of the
State
Brandenburg
flag of the
State
Bremen
flag of the
State
hamburg
flag of the
State
Hesse
flag of the
State
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
flag of the
State
lower saxony
flag of the
State
North Rhine-Westphalia
flag of the
State
Rhineland-Palatinate
flag of the
State
Saar
flag of the
State
Saxony
flag of the
State
Saxony-Anhalt
flag of the
State
Schleswig-Holstein
flag of the
State
thuringia
SHIELD
The coat of arms of Germany has its origin in different symbols that occurred during the Holy Roman Empire, which, when it disintegrated in 1806 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, left the German states that had been part of the Empire without an official shield.
During the German Empire, created in 1871, the golden eagle was once again taken as a symbol, its design being modified after the German defeat in the First World War and then again in the 1930s after the establishment of Nazi Germany.
The FRG established the current coat of arms in 1950. This coat of arms was designed in 1926 by Tobias Schwab reforming the coat of arms of the Weimar Republic. At that time it was called the "Weimar eagle", but when the FRG adopted it as a symbol it became known as the "federal eagle" (Bundesadler in German), a name it retains to this day.
