Attributed Flags for East and Central German Territories 1950s-1960s (Germany)

Last modified: 2004-02-14 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction

See also:

• Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Germany)
  • Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Prussia, Germany)
• Provisional Flags for the New States used in 1990 (Germany)
• German Democratic Republic 1949-1989

I took today an old encyclopedia (Duden Lexikon) from 1966. At that time West Germany had not accepted the loss of the territories East of the rivers Oder and Neisse. In one chapter the flags and coats-of-arms of Germany are posted including the (nonexisting) Länder of the German Democratic Republic and the territories in Poland. I think the editor used the historical flags and coats-of-arms of the Weimar Republic. Some of them look different from the Prussian Landesfarben with arms flags in FOTW:

• The coat-of-arms of Brandenburg has a blue shield in the middle. The eagle has a sword [and a sceptre] and is crowned [like the unofficial flag used 1989-1990]
• East Prussia is not shown [in FOTW].

J. Patrick Fischer, 20 October 2001

These flags and coats-of-arms can be found in other publications of that time as well, e.g. Unsere Symbole 1963 and Schroeder 1953.

Marcus Schmöger, 20 October 2001

The flags and arms of the Länder in East Germany were official in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the East German government abolished the Länder. They did not look exactly the same as the symbols for these states do now, but they did exist.

Elias Granqvist, 21 October 2001

Yes, of course they did exist. However, these arms sh