East Germany
#2148
Traits
- Layout
- Horizontal stripes
- Pattern
- Tricolor
- Text
- None
Details
- Catalogue
- #0068
- Favorites
- 4
- Added
- Jul 1, 2025
History
Germany’s national flag is a black-red-gold horizontal tricolour. The colours are associated with the early nineteenth-century Lützow Free Corps, whose black uniforms with red facings and gold buttons became linked to movements for national unity and freedom during the Wars of Liberation. Black, red, and gold became prominent during the 1848 revolutions and were declared the colours of the German Confederation at Frankfurt. The tricolour later served as the flag of the Weimar Republic, was suppressed under Nazi rule, and was restored by West Germany in 1949. East Germany used the same tricolour with an added state emblem from 1959 until reunification, after which the plain black-red-gold flag became the sole national flag of unified Germany on 3 October 1990.
