Commissioning Pennant (Germany)

Kommandowimpel

Last modified: 2004-06-12 by santiago dotor
Keywords: kommandowimpel | heimatwimpel | iron cross | cross: formy (black) | pennant |
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by Marcus Schmöger

• Description
• Homeward Bound Pennant (Heimatwimpel)

See also:

• Naval Rank Flags (Germany)
• The Iron Cross (Germany)
• Rank Flags of the Imperial Navy 1871-1919 (Germany)

White swallow-tailed flag with narrow Iron Cross in hoist. This flag was probably in use as early as 1867, certainly by the mid 1880s and continued in use until 1945. Illustrated Crampton 1990 p. 42, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1912 vol. 4, facing p. 799, National Geographic 1917 p. 350 and Flaggenbuch 1939 p. 5).

Norman Martin, 1998

According to the navy regulation [Marine Dienstvorschrift] MDv 161/1 (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung 1977), the Kommandowimpel (masthead pennant) is used by any officer commanding a warship in service. The masthead pennant is a long white pennant, containing the Iron Cross near the hoist. It comes in six different sizes: 3 × 150 cm, 4 × 150 cm, 6 × 350 cm, 8 × 350 cm, 9 × 650 cm, 12 × 650 cm. The image I made shows the pennant of the size 12 × 650 cm, thus in proportion ca. 1:54.

Marcus Schmöger, 21 November 2001