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Maybe you can help me. I don't know what this is called. This flag was
removed from a German Tank in Holland during WW11.
Any info you might have would be gratefully appreciated.
Mary Oldring, 11 Oct 2002
I have a particular flag (3`x5`) that was given to me by a friend in
the military who served in Germany, where he bought the flag. Neither he
nor I know what it is but upon researching the FOTW site we have found
that the black, white, red was the old German flag and the flag perhaps
could be a reference to old Germany. The flag has a cross on it. I have
recreated the flag, and enclosed in the email an image of it. I would be
grateful of any help.
Michael Skowitz, 13 Feb 2003
This is an original rare Prussian Royal Uhlan Flag as spotted on Ebay.
There is written:
Original rare Prussian Royal Uhlan Flag (Unteroffiziersfahne) from
1917, the motiv on the flag shows the royal Eagle.
Soldiers on horseback from the Royal Uhlan Regiment (2nd Hannover)
already carried this banner in the time period from 1871 - 1920.
The condition of the Uhlan-flag is very good, size approx. 70 x 35 cm with
four fixing-eyes on the flag.
Bill Garrison, 24 Mar 2003
I found this flag on a poster in the German consulate of Guangzhou/PR
China. I only know, that it was about a competition about environment.
J. Patrick Fischer, 29 Apr 2003
I have been in Heidelberg Germany for over 15 years and just last week
I saw a flag like the one attached. I thought it was the old Northern
German Empire Flag but then it's just the same as the Kamchatka Territory
(Russia) upside-down. It was displayed on a flagpole projecting from the
building (ratio 3:2) and also banner style from a freestanding pole (ratio
5:2). The building had the sign: Thüringen Corps. I still am trying to
find out what that is or who they are. It doesn't seem to be a new organization.
What do you know?
David C Curran, 16 Jun 2003
There is most probably a totally different solution, and the four-coloured
flag (yellow-red-black-yellow) was the one that pointed to that for me.
These are flags of Burschenschaften/Studentenverbindungen (students' associations).
As Heidelberg is an important university town, there are also a lot of
these Burschenschaften around. Each of these have their colour combinations
(two, three or four colours), including rare colours such as pink in many
cases. These colour combinations are
displayed as sashes mainly, but also as striped flags on the buildings
belonging to the Burschenschaft. The Burschenschaften had been playing
an important role in German history (and the German flag's history) around
200 years ago. Nowadays they are basically small, unsignificant groups
with (mostly) right-conservative, in some cases even right-radical, political
opinion. There had been several scandals here in Munich and the rest of
Bavaria with NPD members being also member of one of the Burschenschaften.
Although most of them are just conservative and not radical, the distinction
is not always easy.
The Studentenverbindung in this case is the "Corps Thuringia" (names
are traditionally latinized, i.e. not "Thüringen" but "Thuringia"). see
this
website. On the website you see their coat-of-arms, that displays the
colours black-red-white (bendwise) in one quarter, as well as in a pennant.
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 16 Jun 2003
This could be the Naval Reserve Ensign (flown
by merchant vessels commanded by Naval Reserve officers). It was a horizontal
black-white-red tricolour with an Iron Cross at the hoist.
Miles Li, 19 Jun 2003