VEB Deutsche Seereederei 1952-1974 (East Germany)

DSR

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2:3 | stripes 1+3+1
by Volker Moerbitz Keith and Victor Lomantsov

• Introduction
• Description
• Flag variant in a navigation encyclopedia
• Jack used by VEB Deutsche Seereederei, VEB Deutfracht and VEB Deutfracht/Seereederei 1952-1989

See also:

• House Flags of East German Shipping Companies 1949-1989
• East Germany 1949-1990
• Germany

Introduction

Founded in 1952, this was the big state-owned merchant shipping company, operating world wide and having 200 ships at its peak in the late 1970s. In the 1960s, tankers and bulk carriers were taken off the stock of Deutsche Seereederei and formed VEB Deutfracht, an own, thought short lived, company. In 1974, both companies merged back again, from then on until 1989 using the name VEB Deutfracht/Seereederei.

Volker Moerbitz Keith, 7 February 2001

Description

Flag: horizontal blue-red-blue stripes 1:3:1, with the white letters DSR in the red part and a vertical blue stripe on the fly side. The width of the vertical stripe is apparently the same as the horizontal blue stripes. Flag ratio 2:3.

Volker Moerbitz Keith, 7 February and 30 October 2001

Flag variant in a navigation encyclopedia

by Jens Pattke, 3 February 2002

Source: Ullrich Scharnow, transpress Lexikon Seefahrt, transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin (East), 1988, 5th edition.

Jens Pattke, 3 February 2002

Jack used by VEB Deutsche Seereederei, VEB Deutfracht and VEB Deutfracht/Seereederei 1952-1989

2:3
by Volker Moerbitz Keith and Stefan Schwoon

Both merchant companies [VEB Deutsche Seereederei, VEB Deutfracht and VEB Deutfracht/Seereederei] used the same jack, a