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![[Alliance 90/The Greens (Germany)]](../images/d/de}b90gr.gif)
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by Marcus Schmöger
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The Green Party (Die Grünen or The Greens) has been the most successful of new party foundations in Germany of the last decades. Die Grünen were founded in 1979 and successfully took part in federal parliament elections since 1983. In 1993 they merged with the civil rights union Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90) of the former German Democratic Republic. Since then the party is known as Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Since 1998 they are part of the coalition government of chancellor Schröder (SPD), the most significant politician of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen being foreign minister Joschka Fischer. Bündnis 90/Die Grünen are an ecological party, a civil-rights party, an antimilitary and antinuclear party.
Marcus Schmöger, 14 August 2000
Alliance 90-The Greens don't use flags very frequently. The Bavarian branch does have one or a few of the flags (as shown on FOTW). However, up to now I have always seen flags with a plain reverse (i.e. there is nothing printed on the reverse, only on the obverse).
The Berlin branch of the party (Alternative Liste Berlin), that has a remarkable autonomy in the party, seems to use a different flag with a hedgehog.
Marcus Schmöger, 20 March 2002
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen sent me an e-mail with information on the party flag. The flag is actually just an enlarged party logo. It has been used for several years during major party events. I found some pictures on Internet, where two prominent green politicians took part in a Christopher Street Day demonstration, on their truck there were two of the party flags as a decoration. After these pictures I made the image above. Further pictures of the logo etc. can be found at the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen website.
Marcus Schmöger, 14 August 2000