State of Hanover 1945-1946 (Germany)

Land Hannover

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3:5
by Zeljko Heimer and Marcus Schmöger
Flag adopted 5th December 1945

• Introduction
• State Flag (Provinzialdienstflagge / Flag for Provincial Authorities)

See also:

• Historical Flags (Hanover, Germany)
• Current Use of Former States Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Photograph of the 1945-1946 State Flag at the Kingdom of Hanover website

The province of Hanover adopted several flags on the 5th December 1945:

• The colours of the province were yellow-white, which means that the flag of the province was certainly yellow over white horizontally, exactly like the flag adopted for the Prussian province of Hanover in 1882. This time however (1945), Hanover was again a sovereign German state. The flag had certainly the proportions 3:5.
• The provincial flag for the authorities is the one that Jan Oskar Engene mentioned. The proportions were 3:5 and the proportion between the height of the horse on the flag and the heig