Car Flags (Hesse, Germany)

Standarte und Dienstflaggen für Kraftfahrzeuge

Last modified: 2003-12-20 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Car Flag for the Prime Minister (Standarte für den Dienstkraftwagen des Hessischen Ministerpräsidenten)
• Car Flags for Other Authorities
• Relative Size of the Car Flags

See also:

• Hesse (Hessen, Germany)
• Germany

Order of 26 November 1949 (Geset[z] und Verodnungsblatt 1949 p. 171): government service flag [in] square [form] is used by president, state minister, state secretary and presidents of the district government. In triangle [form] is [used] by the state advisers.

Order 14 October 1955: adopted flag for the minister president: square white flag with red border with the arms in center (30 × 30 [cm], border 5.5 [cm]). Confirmed 1 April 1970 and 22 March 1977. Source: Roger Harmignies, article in Vexilla Belgica, issue 11, 1987.

Jaume Ollé, 29 July 1999

There are several things wrong there. The Ministerpräsident uses the flag described in the second paragraph. The other flag is not square but has the proportions 21 × 35 cm (the German text can be misleading, because rechteckig mean rectangular and not square) and is used only by the minister of the Land (called here in German Staatsminister), the chief of the state chancellery (not the state secretary, which is something different) and the presidents of the Regierungsbezirke [districts]. The presidents of the circles (Landräte, not state advisers!) use the service flag but triangular 21 × 35 cm. Also, 14th October 1955 is the date of the cabinet decision. The order was approved by minister[ial] decision on 2nd December 1955.

Source: personal and legal archives, with legislation and official documents from the German Länder, as well as the informations of Jürgen Rimann, the best German specialist for all the car flags in the world and a very reliable source.

Pascal Vagnat, 1 August 1999

Sources:

• Laitenberger and Bassier 2000
• Schurdel 1995
• Harmignies 1987
• Verordnung über die Landesdienstflagge vom 26. November 1949. Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt für Hessen 1949, S. 171-172 (Regulation on the state flag of 26th November 1949. Law and Official Gazette 1949, pp. 171-172)
• Bekanntmachung über die Standarte für den Dienstkraftwagen des Hessischen Ministerpräsidenten vom 2. Dezember 1955. Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 1955, S. 1257 (Proclamation of the standard for the official car of the prime minister of Hesse of 2nd December 1955. Government Gazette 1955, p. 1257)

Marcus Schmöger, 2