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Interflug 1958-1990 (East Germany)

Introduction
Flag used 1960's
Flag used 1970's

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Introduction

Interflug (shortened form of Internationaler Flug, international flight) was founded in 1958 as a second East German airline to operate charter flights, while the Deutsche Lufthansa GmbH der DDR kept operating the regular flights.

Legal litigation started in Bern in 1962 between East and West Germany over the trade mark Lufthansa. The court gave this name to the Federal Republic of Germany which implied that the East German airline had to change its name. This is how Interflug assumed also the regular flights and the East German Lufthansa ceased to exist.

Jens Pattke, translated by Santiago Dotor, 19 April 2002

Flag used 1960's

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by Jens Pattke
Flag adopted c.1958, abandoned late 1970's

Interflug used a flag with the same design as the fin flash of its airplanes.

Jens Pattke, 4 April 2001

Flag used 1970's

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by Jens Pattke
Flag adopted late 1970's, abandoned 1990 (?)

[By the] end of the seventies it only flew the red logo on a white field.

Jens Pattke, 4 April 2001