Historical Flags (Hanover, Germany)

Hannover

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Zeljko Heimer and Marcus Schmöger

• Introduction
• Hanover and Brunswick (the two lines of the House of Brunswick)
• Electorate (1692-1814) and Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866) (Kurfürstentum Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Königreich Hannover)
  • Electoral and Royal Standards 1714-1866 (Kurfürst- und Königsstandarten)
• Hanover Province 1887-1935 (Provinz Hannover, Prussia)
• Federal State of Hanover 1945-1946 (Land Hannover)
• Principality of East Frisia (Fürstentum Ostfriesland, to Hanover 1815)
• Duchy of Lauenburg 1261-1918 (Herzogtum Lauenburg, to Hanover 1689-1816)
• Waldeck-Pyrmont 1815-1929 (Fürstentum Waldeck-Pyrmont, Pyrmont to Hanover 1922)

See also:

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

Hanover is not a Land of the Federal Republic of Germany anymore. It is now part of the Land of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The flag of the former kingdom and the flag of this former Land were all yellow-white horizontally. This flag can still be used in the former Hanoverian part of Lower Saxony.

Pascal Vagnat (?)

The two lines of the House of Brunswick

The house of Brunswick originated in Othbert, margrave of Este in Italy. This family acquired the inheritance of the Guelph [also spelt Welf] family by marriage —around the year 1000— of Azzo II with Kunigunde, daughter of Welf II. In 1106 the family acquired (Lower) Saxony by marriage of Henry the Black to Wulfhild (died 1126), last of the Billungs, who had been dukes of Saxony for the last ages. A generation later they acquired also by marriage the duchy of Brunswick. They were made lords of Brunswick and Lüneburg in 1181 and dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg 12th August 1235.

The Guelph family divided in branches and was reunited more than once. In the 12th century they started using the Saxon horse to claim their rights to (Lower) Saxony. An important division took place in the house of Brauschweig-Lüneburg in 1546:

• Henry duke of Dannenberg, founded the senior line that was later called Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and ruled over the duchy of Brunswick, becoming extinct in 1884