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President's Standard 1933-1935 (Germany)

Standarte des Reichspräsidenten

Last modified: 2005-09-10 by santiago dotor
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[President's Standard 1933-1935 (Germany)] 1:1
by Dieter Linder and Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 22nd April 1933, abolished 1935



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Description

This is identical with the previous standard except for having a black, white and red border (from the outside). Used from 1933 to 1935, at least officially. After [President Field-Marshal] von Hindenburg's death in 1934, the position of president was combined with that of [Leader and] Chancellor as Führer und Reichskanzler and Hitler pointedly never used the title (out of respect for von Hindenburg, he said). Nonetheless, the law combining the positions would have authorized his use of the standard. I do not know whether he actually did. Illustrated in Crampton 1990 p. 43.

Norman Martin, 1998

There is also a (black and white) photograph of the standard in Davis 1975. Using Dieter Linder's image of the