Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Fahnen- und Flaggenkunde (SGFF)

Société Suisse de Vexillologie Società Svizzera di Vessillologia, Switzerland (

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by Pascal Gross, 07-MAY-1998

• Switzerland
• Vexillological Associations
• Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques (FIAV)

Mailing Address

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Fahnen- und Flaggenkunde (SSV)
Société Suisse de Vexillologie
Società Svizzera di Vessillologia
c/o Emil Dreyer
Flurweg 43
3052 ZOLLIKOFEN
Switzerland

Other information

Type: association

President/Other: Emil Dreyer, president
Secretary: Harald Müller, secretary
Telephone: +41 (31) 911 60 18 (Emil Dreyer)
Fax: +41 (31) 922 02 25 (Emil Dreyer)
e-mail: Emil Dreyer
Home Page: http://atlasgeo.span.ch/ssv/index.htm

Established: 21 January 1967
FIAV Member Since: 7 September 1969 (charter)
Membership Status: full

Territory: Switzerland

Flag: Red with a white cross (extending to the edges of the flag). Along each diagonal a yellow bar which ends in a fleur-de-lys. Extending from the cross 8 yellow flames (one to the left and to the right of each diagonal cross bar) and 4 red flames (covering partly each diagonal cross bar).

As a real Swiss flag it has square shape.

Publications:

Periodical Publication:
Vexilla Helvetica (since 1969) deals (almost exclusively) with historical Swiss flags bi-lingual German-French