Flags of Germany

This is a list of flags used by and in Germany.

National Flag

The current German national flag is officially called the Bundesflagge (Federal Flag) and is a horizontal tricolour of three equal bands of black, red, and gold. It was first used in the German Revolutions of 1848, and was also the flag of the Weimar Republic (1921-33). The flag colours of Germany (whether black, red, and, gold or black, white, and red) have historical significance, with the current colours representing German liberal democracy, while the previous Imperial colours have represented an aggressive, authoritarian Germany. The sole exception to this is the so-called German Democratic Republic which used the colours of black, red and gold even though it was a Communist dictatorship.

Federal Service Flag

This flag is used by agencies of the Federal Government.

Presidential Standard

Bundeswehr Flags

Naval Ensign

Regimental Colours of the Bundeswehr

Inspector-General of the Bundeswehr flag

Flags of the German States

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Berlin

Brandenburg

Bremen

Hamburg

Hesse

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

Historical Flags

German Empire (1849)

North German Confederation (1867–1871)

German Empire (1871–1918)

Weimar Republic (1919–1933)

Third Reich (1933–1945)

Flag of National Socialist Germany 1933-1935

Flal of National Socialist Germany 1935-1945

Allied Control Council (1945–1950)

German Democratic Republic (1949-1990)

German Democratic Republic (with emblem removed, used by protestors and in commemoration of DDR victims)