Flag Proposals 1990 (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany)

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• Introduction
• Proposal no.1
• Proposal no.2
• Proposal no.3
• Proposal no.4
• Proposal no.5

See also:

• Unofficial Flag used in 1990 (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany)
• Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
• Germany

As Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is composed of two parts of different (but sometimes also converging) history, namely Mecklenburg (at times separated into Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz) and Vorpommern, the western part of Pommern (Pomerania), it was difficult in 1990/1991, after the recreation of the Land, to devise its new symbols. The situation was in some way similar to the situation in Saxony-Anhalt, also a Land only quite recently composed of diverse territories. These two cases illustrate the difficult way to find a commonly accepted flag as a symbol for a community.

There were basically two groups of flag designs: the first were the 'official' proposals discussed by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern government (Kabinettsvorlage vom 20 November 1990), these showed