Princely Standards until 1918 (Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany)

Fürstenstandarten

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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• Greater Standard of the Prince until 1911 (Große Fürstenstandarte)
• Lesser Standard of the Prince c.1880-1911 (Kleine Fürstenstandarte)
• Standard of the Prince 1911-1918 (Fürstenstandarte)

See also:

• Schaumburg-Lippe 1815-1935 (Germany)
• Imperial Standards 1870-1919 (Germany)
• Historical Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Coat-of-Arms of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe (from Ströhl's Deutsche Wappenrolle, German text only) at the Lebendiges virtuelles Museum Online
• Lesser Coat-of-Arms of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe (copyright A[rchiv?] Schaumburg-Lippe) at the Genealogy.net website

Große Fürstenstandarte

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Flag abolished 1911

Ströhl 1897 gives the greater standard, white with the full arms. Note that the escutcheon is not the same as in the lesser standard.

Theo van der Zalm, 22 June 2001

Kleine Fürstenstandarte

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by Theo van der Zalm and Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted c.1880, abolished 1911

A horizontal tricolor white-red-blue. At the center a white disk with the [lesser] arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Norman Martin, April 1998

The lesser princely standard was the striped flag with the lesser arms of Schaumburg on a white disc in the center.

Mario Fabretto, 27 August 1998

I guess this standard dates from c.1880 since it is then that the white-red-blue colours and their order were fixed.

Santiago Dotor, 21 June 2001

Ströhl 1897 gives this flag as lesser standard. In the centre is the Lippian rose.

Theo van der Zalm, 22 June 2001

Fürstenstandarte

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by Theo van der Zalm and Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 1911, abolished 15th November 1918

A square white flag, with a red zig-zag bordure (six red points showing on each side) and a heraldic rose in the centre. It is illustrated in Neubecker 1933 and Neubecker 1977, p.134 (the square flag at bottom left).

I said the Bavarian royal standard 1914-1918 was the only standard of a German sovereign which followed the Austrian model after the turn of the century. Actually the 1911-1918 standard of Schaumburg-Lippe also had a similar border, but only because it was a banner-of-arms of the (lesser) arms of Schaumburg-Lippe. The arms of the County of Schaumburg have a red zig-zag bordure — a Nesselblatt like Holstein for example, see the current Schleswig-Holstein arms.

Santiago Dotor, 21 June 2001