Provisional Flags for the New States used in 1990 (Germany)

Reunification Festivities 3rd October 1990

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For the reunification celebrations on 3rd October 1990 the organisation committee decided to use a quite astonishing flag for Saxony-Anhalt, a vertically divided bicolor of black-yellow (...) to distinguish the flag from the horizontal black-yellow Baden-Württemberg flag (fig. 8 in Kuhn 1991). (...) In Anhalt, especially in the former capital Dessau (...) the old Anhalt colours were displayed. (...) In Fläming, a region of Saxony-Anhalt, the regional flag of green-yellow was also used in 1990-1991.

Marcus Schmöger, 7 March 2001

When the [reunification] festivities in Berlin took place on 3 October 1990 not only the flag of Saxony-Anhalt was quite strange but also those of Mecklenburg and Thuringia were far away from what came in use later. On the same day the flags were also hoisted at the Deutsche Eck, near Koblenz, where hanging flags were shown and the flag of Thuringia was different from that hoisted in Berlin.

Ralf Stelter, 8-9 March 2001

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