Police Flags 1937-1945 (Germany)

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• Introduction
• Command of Police, Command of Police Group, Command of Police School
• Police Staff Officer and General Director in High Authority in the Administration
• Chief Command of General Inspector depending of the Ordnungspolizei Chief
• Section Command of the State Police, Communal Police Director
• Inspectors of Police and Command of Berlin's Police
• Chief of the Order Police (Ordnungspolizeichef)
• Inner Administration Senator for the Order Police of Hamburg
• Banner of the Protection Police of Prussia and Presidium of Berlin's Police 1933-1945
• Standard of the Protection Police (Standarte der Schutzpolizei)
• Oldenburg State Police 1933-1945
• Thuringia State Police 1933-1945

See also:

• Third Reich 1933-1945
• Germany

The flags on this page were flags of police units in the Third Reich, most adopted by decree from 9th August 1937 that took effect after 1st September 1937.

Michael Lupant, 14 September 1998

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Ordnungspolizeichef

by Jaume Ollé

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Authorized by Goering 1933. Only seven examples were manufactured, one for each original battallion, and was first hoisted in Berlin on 15 September 1933. The motto says: "Pro Gloria et Patria" [Ed.: "For Glory and Fatherland"].

Michael Lupant, 14 September 1998

Standarte der Schutzpolizei

by Jaume Ollé

First hoisted in Berlin on 12 September 1937. Note that [it] is very similar to other standards, but the plate above the upper swastika is different.

Michael Lupant, 14 September 1998

by Jaume Ollé

Flag adopted 1933. Has the arms adopted by Oldenburg on 1919.

Michael Lupant, 14 September 1998

by Jaume Ollé

Adopted 1933.

Jaume Ollé, 15 September 1998