Regional Flags (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany)

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• Introduction
• Legislation
• Mecklenburg
• West Pomerania
• Unofficial Flags with Coat-of-Arms
• Proposals for Regional Service Flags 1992

See also:

• County and Municipal Flags (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
• Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
• Germany

The flags of Mecklenburg (blue on yellow on red) and (West) Pomerania (blue on white) can still be used and must appear beside the Land flag when this one is used on public buildings.

David Lewellen, 1995 and Carsten Linke, 2 May 1996

According to law, the traditional flags of Mecklenburg or Pomerania can be used in those parts of the Land that had belonged to these entities in former times. The Landtag (regional parliament) must use the old flags of Mecklenburg and Pomerania together with the Landesflagge. As the law explicitly says Landesflagge and not Landesdienstflagge, I assume that the Landtag</