Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Germany)

Last modified: 2004-01-17 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Terminology: Reich, Freistaat etc.
• German States, alphabetically
• German States, by size
• Prussian Provincial Flags 1919-1935
• Other territories:
  • Rhine Republic 1921-1924
  • Free City of Danzig 1920-1939 (Freie Stadt Danzig)
  • Memel District 1920-1939 (Memelland)
  • Sudetenland 1938-1945

See also:

• Explanation of Landesfarben
• Weimar Republic 1919-1933 (Germany)
• Germany

Several states existed in the era of the so-called Weimar Republic. I include in this time all the states between the fall of the Empire and the start of the Third Reich (1918-1933). For some period during these years such states existed and had flags. Also the communist states had flags. (...) A few states existed for only around two years, in the confused era after the First World War (November 1918-1920).

Jaume Ollé, 24 August 1998

As for other Communist flags used in Germany around 1918-1919, the red flags never officially replaced the other flags. They were used during attempts to create Soviet-style states which, in some cases, co-existed for some times with the official governments.

Mario Fabretto (?), 24 August 1998

[Some German federal states] adopted the title Freistaat after the abdication of their monarchs in 1918-1919. They were however always intended to be states of the Deutsches Rei