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1:1, by Zeljko Heimer
On a square triband on a red outlined white shield is the coat of
arms, with a red and white flammuly border. The flag is prescribed in size as 100 x 100 cm,
the borders being 10 cm wide. The image in Album
des Pavillons (2000) is not quite what I would be satisfied with - the flamullets
are drawn very irregularly. There are nine white teeth along each side. The image
above is what I think it should be - but it should be taken with some reserve. It is not clear if the
flammulets are to be made by three "half-waves" as it is case in the military
colours, or with only two "half-waves" as in the flag of flag officers.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 February 2001
This flag is described as "Standard for a Member of the Federal Government or
the Federal President (Stander für ein Mitglied der Bundesregierung oder den Herrn Bundespräsidenten)"
on the web page
for the Austrian Federal Ministry for National Defence.
Luis Miguel Arias Pérez, 17 September 2001
The flag is used on the two
patrol vessels of the Danube flotilla of the Austrian army.
Peter Diem, 16 August 2002
7:8~, by Zeljko Heimer
A white flag with the coat of arms in the middle and bordered with red and white flammulets. The flag is not 1:1 as written in Album , but 100 x 114 cm (that's very close to 7:8~), and the image in
Album des Pavillons (2000) is clearly so. The flammulets here in Album are
irregular, but are clearly made of two "half-waves". The width of the border is 18 cm.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 February 2001
This flag is described as "Standard for General (Stander für General)"
on the web page
for the Austrian Federal Ministry for National Defence.
Luis Miguel Arias Pérez, 17 September 2001
The flag is used on the two
patrol vessels of the Danube flotilla of the Austrian army.
Peter Diem, 16 August 2002
1:2, by Zeljko Heimer
Red-white-red broad pennant. Album des Pavillons
(2000) indicates the size 65 x 145 cm (but that's not 1:2, as is indicated in Album!), and size of indentation 65 cm.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 February 2000
This pennant is described as "Pennant for Commander (Kommandantenwimpel)"
on the web page
for the Austrian Federal Ministry for National Defence.
Luis Miguel Arias Pérez, 17 September 2001
This pennant is used on the two patrol vessels of the
Danube flotilla of the Austrian army.
Peter Diem, 16 August 2002
by Tom Gregg
The 1996 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships
reports a war ensign, flown by
vessels of the Austrian Army's Danube Flotilla. Its design is quite
obviously based on the old Austro-Hungarian war ensign (note the arms in a
shield set toward the hoist). Proportions are the same as for the civil and
state flags.
Tom Gregg, 15 February 1997
There is no mention of a (separate) war ensign in Album 2000
(even if there is one shown in cor. 29 of Album 1990 issue). There is
no such flag shown in the two documents from 1984 listed
below, and even if they seem to determine all the flags for use at sea (or on
water) they do allow for the 1981 "Seeschiffahrtsgesezt" to stay valid. Possibly there is something there that could explain it.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 February 2002
Since the 1984 arms and flag law, the TWO Danube patrol vessels of the
Austrian army use the Bundesdienstflagge (state flag), as do the police
patrol boats and all smaller army (engineer corps) boats. The ensign shown here
is purely historical. The
army flag code
also shows the two Wimpel and two Stander to be used on Danube
boats for officers and guests.
Peter Diem, 16 August 2002
Sources:
1. Bundesgesetz vom 28. März 1984 über das Wappen und andere Hoheitszeichen der Republik Österreich
(Wappengesetz), Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik Österreich, 72. Stück, 25. April
1984.
2. Grundsätzliche Bestimmungen über die Verwendung des Hoheitszeichens sowie über die Verwendung, das Führen und das Setzen
von Flaggen, Wimpel und Stander, 5. Juni 1984, Verlautbarungsblatt I des Bundesministeriums für
Landesverteidigung, 65. Folge, 19. December 1984.
2:3, by Zeljko Heimer
This flag is of historical interest only.
Peter Diem, 16 August 2002
The Austrian flag red-white-red with a white shield in the canton containing the coat of arms was adopted on the 31st of May1929. According to the law, this is not an army flag. It is
for the use on inland rivers on vessels of the federal Austrian
administration/government. In German: "der im Dienste der
oesterreischischen Bundesverwaltung stehenden Fahrzeuge". The distance from the upper/left part of the shield to the
upper/left part of the flag is one fifth of the height of one stripe. Be the height of one stripe, the height of the shield is equal to 1,3x h and the length equal to h. The shield is of XIXc French
style. The bottom of the shield is on the middle of the white stripe. The1929 eagle has no chains. Drawings are in the law.
Source:
Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik
Österreisch, 1929, Stueck 45, Nr 189-191.
Pascal Vagnat, 08 March 1997
2:3, by
Zeljko Heimer
The police pennant (Wimple bei Durchfuehrung schiffahrtspolizeilicher
Massnahmen) has a design that is used by the river police forces vessels in several (probably all) other countries of
the Danube system. Probably the basic form of the pennant is
agreed upon in some mutual document, possibly through the Danube Commission. Minor
differences are the result of sovereign legislation of each by the countries - but in all countries the police vessels carry
a white triangular pennant with a blue voided horizontal lozenge.
The dimensions of the Austrian river police pennant are 36 x 80 cm, length of the (outer) edge of the lozenge is 20 cm,
width of the lozenge is 4 cm and the length from the hoist to the lozenge is 13 cm.
The lozenge reaches to the upper and lower edge of the flag.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 February 2001
During the Seven
Years War, Austrian infantry regiments carried four colors: a Colonel's Color
and three battalion colors. The Colonel's Color or Liebfahne was white
with a presentation of the Virgin Mary on the obverse and the two-headed eagle
of the Holy Roman Empire on the reverse. The battalion colors or Ordinaires were yellow silk with a border of black,
yellow, white and red triangles, and had the two-headed eagle on both sides. The
Liebfahne were usually embroidered and the Ordinaires were painted. All were rectangular, about three feet at the
hoist by 4 feet on the fly.
Tom Gregg, 20 January 1997.
by Zeljko Heimer
A red disk with a white equilateral triangle pointing down. Normally the emblem is shown with a white fimbriation against the background (above left). Two other versions are prescribed, for "low visibility" marking and where technicalities do not allow for more elaborate painting. In the first of these (above, centre) is a red ring (also fimbriated white from background) within which is an inverted white void triangle, and in the second (above right) the triangle is all white made as a template painting. Album des Pavillons (2000) shows only the normal version.
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