Westphalia 1945-1946 (Germany)

Westfalen

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Pascal Vagnat

• Description

See also:

• Coat-of-Arms of Westphalia (white horse on red)
• North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Westfalen (Westphalia, German text only) by Gerhard Brunn at the North Rhine-Westphalia Official Website, including information on the arms

In 1945, after the defeat of the Nazi regime, all the Nazi and Prussian emblems, flags, coats of arms, seals were forbidden. As there weren't any legal, authorized emblems, especially at the state and regional level, the former Prussian provinces, among others, had to adopt or re-adopt emblems. That was the case of the province of Westphalia. In order to solve the problem of the absence of seals for the Westphalian communes, the Oberpräsident of Westphalia ordered in a circular of the 21st December 1945, that the seals in use in Westphalia should show the Westphalian coat of arms, that is "Gules a horse forcene Argent" with the name of the relevant authority. At the same time it was stipulated that every authority which was formerly allowed to display the