Car Flags for State Authorities (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Standarten und Kommandoflaggen

Last modified: 2002-04-12 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Car Flag for the Prime Minister and Ministers (Standarte des Ministerpräsidenten, des Landtagspräsidenten und Minister)
• Car Flag for Ministerial Directors 1957-1971, later State Secretaries (Standarte des Ministerialdirektoren, später der Staatssekretäre)
• Relative Size of the Car Flags
• Car Flags for State Authorities 1952-1957

See also:

• Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
• Germany

From 1952-1957 versions of the state flag (...) had been used as car flags for state authorities. In 1957 a new design for the car flags was introduced. The flags show on a red field with (outer) blue and (inner) white border a golden eagle with the arms.

These were described and also depicted in the Verordnung zur Durchführung des Gesetzes über die Hoheitszeichen des Landes Schleswig-Holstein (Regulation for the Implementation of the Law on State Symbols of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein) of 10th August 1957, published in the Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt für Schleswig-Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein Acts and Regulations Bulletin) 1957, pp. 105-108. [Attached to the text in the regulation are sketches of the flags.]

The car flags are officially called Standarte in the regulation. The flags for the Ministerpräsident and the Minister (i.e. the square ones) can also be used as Kommandoflagge (command flag) on ships in official service, when the respective minister/prime minister is aboard.

Sources: Laitenberger and Bassier 2000, Schurdel 1995 and Mattern and Neubecker 1988.

Marcus Schmöger, 26 March 2001

Other sources: Roger Harmignies, articles in Vexilla Belgica, issue 11, 1987 and Vexillinfo issue 103.

Jaume Ollé, 29 July 1999 and 21 February 2001

Standarte des Ministerpräsidenten, des Landtagspräsidenten und der Minister

1:1 | 30×30cm / 25×25cm
by Jaume Ollé, modified by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 10th August 1957

A square flag, on a red field with (outer) blue and (inner) white border a golden eagle with the arms. It is used by the Ministerpräsident (prime minister) and the Landtagspräsident (president of the state parliament) in the size 30 × 30 cm and by cabinet ministers in the size 25 × 25 cm.

The flags for the Ministerpräsident and the Minister can also be used as Kommandoflagge (command flag) on ships in official service, when the respective minister or the prime minister is aboard.

Marcus Schmöger, 26 March 2001

Standarte der Ministerialdirektoren 1957-1971, später der Staatssekretäre

18:25 | 18×25cm
by Jaume Ollé, modified by Marcus Schmöger and Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 10th August 1957

A rectangular flag in the size 18 × 25 cm, on a red field with (outer) blue and (inner) white border a golden eagle with the arms.

Marcus Schmöger, 26 March 2001

30×30cm      25×25cm      18×25cm
all images by Jaume Ollé, modified by Marcus Schmöger and Santiago Dotor