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 Teutonic Knights
The Teutonic Order (German: Deutscher Orden; Latin: Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum) was a German crusading military order under Roman Catholic religious vows which was formed at the end of the 12th century in Acre (Akko) in Palestine to give medical aid to pilgrims to the holy places. They wore white coats with a black cross. After Christian forces were defeated in the Middle East, in 1211 they moved to Transylvania, from where they were soon expelled in 1225. After that they moved to northern Poland, where they soon created the independent Teutonic Order state. The agressiveness of the Order posed a threat to the neighbouring states, especially those of Poland and Lithuania. In 1410 at the Battle of Grunwald (also known as the battle of Tannenberg), a Polish-Lithuanian army decisively defeated the Order and broke its military power. Download the Teutonic Knights flag image here.
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 Kaiserliche Marine
Navy Jack 1871-1903
The jack (Kriegsschiffgösch) was the black-white-red flag with an Iron Cross in the middle. When the Empire was established in 1871, use of the Kriegsgösch of the North German League was maintained. By a Decree of 2 March 1886, its use was authorized for the rulers and princes of ruling houses of German states and for mayors of the Hansa cities. All of this was apparently confirmed by an Ordinance of 20 January 1893. Download the 1871 German Kaiserliche Marine Navy Jack image here.
 War Ensign 1919-1921
Reichskriegsflagge
The ensign was adopted according to the order of September 1919, but was never really used. The black-white-red in the canton is replaced by the black-red-gold (the Iron Cross remaining) and the Prussian royal eagle in the round center field is replaced by a new republican eagle. Download the 1919 German War Ensign flag image here.
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 German Empire
1871-1918
The term German Empire (Deutsches Reich) commonly refers to Germany, from its consolidation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871,under Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm I until the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II on November 9, 1918. Germans, when referring to the Reich in this period under the Kaisers, typically use the term Kaiserreich and this term has often been used by non-German historians.
Sometimes in English (but rarely in German) the name Second Reich is used, based on counting the Holy Roman Empire as the first German empire (and, as Nazi ideology insisted, Nazi Germany as the third). Numbering of the Reichs began in 1923 by Arthur Moeller van Den Bruck (he longed for a third, which he idealized) and was taken up by the Nazis. Part of de-Nazification is that Germans do not use this system of numbered Reichs. Download the 1871 German Empire flag image here.
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 Weimar Republic
1921-1933
Federal Republic of Germany since 1949
The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the (Pronounced Vye-Mar, and in German it is known as the "Weimarer Republik"). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German monarchy was abolished following the nation's defeat in World
War I.
After the defeat of Germany in World War II, Germany was occupied by the Allies. After the Allied occupation ended, the black-red-gold flag was once again adopted as the federal flag for West Germany on May 9, 1949 and became the flag for united Germany in 1990. East Germany had initially used the same flag, but on October 1, 1959 it introduced a communist emblem to the centre of the flag, which remained almost until the territory of East Germany was annexed by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 (East Germany formally removed the emblem shortly before reunification). Download the German National flag image here.
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 State Flag, State Ensign and War Flag 1950
This is the Bundesflagge with the Bundesschild (federal shield, slightly different to the coat-of-arms). The shield is slightly shifted to the hoist. The naval ensign is swallowtailed which was adopted in 1956.
According to the navy regulation, the federal service flag (Bundesdienstflagge) is used by auxiliary ships of the navy, ships leased or chartered by the Bundeswehr (if ordered by the Minister of Defense), and ships not yet in service or out of service. Ships using the federal service flag also use a smaller variant as a jack (Gösch).
This flag was also in use from 1921-1933 during the Weimar Republic. Download the German State Flag, State Ensign and War Flag image here.
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 War Ensign 1921-1933
Kriegsflagge
 Defence Minister's Flag
Flagge des Reichswehrministers
These flags were both used during the Weimar Republic and abolished in 1933 when the Nazi party came into power.
Download the 1921 German War Ensign image here.
Download the 1921 German Defence Minister's Flag image here.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Flag
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