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Kristo1594 β Versions of the German flag
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Just versions of the German flag used between 1806 and 1848 (pre-March, Hambach Festival, March Revolution).Which version is your favorite?
Of course I love 1, but I also like 7 and 9^^
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I believe non of those would be heraldicly correct. Maybe version 8 would be, I'm not sure. In heraldics two "colors" can't be next to each other. There has to be a "metal" between them, in this case "gold" (which is portrayed as yellow)
Having that said, I personally like version 2.
I'm not aware of the colors being used prior to the Hambach Festival. I know that it is said that the "Burschenschaften" (students' fraternities, I guess) after whose flag the colors were picked used to make up a considerable amount of the LΓΌtzow Free Corps in the struggle against Napoleon who used the colors (kinda) for their uniforms. But there was no flag around at this time.
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I like version 9, it reminds me of a similar design I used a long time ago 0.o with different colors. Not sure what inspired me at that time.Β
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And Version #6 is also the flag of the short lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, existed only a few months in 1918. I think it's yellow for armenia, black for georgia, and red for azerbaijan. You can also see it here:
www.deviantart.com/art/TDFR-283277342
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4 and 7 personally. The 6 looks like a reversed version of the flag of the first Belgian revolution in 1789Β de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vereinigβ¦
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Vielleicht nur gewâhnung, aber ich zieh version 1 vor. Die Versionen 2,3,4 erinnern mich zu sehr an Belgien, und obwohl Belgien cool ist, nÀÀÀÀ. Version 5 ist schlichtweg hÀsslich, Version 6 erinnert mich zu sehr an Litauen. Version 7 is relativ cool, Version 8 und 9 sind ok. Würde Version 1 wegfallen, würde ich Version 7 oder 9 wÀhlen
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Ich find ja die 7 sieht son bisschen nach Costa Rica bzw Thailand aus xD
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Jaja, eben 
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NΓΆ, aber man findet irgendwann immer was was einem nicht gefΓ€llt
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Schau dir mal die Flagge von Uganda an - fΓΌr mich waren da immer umgedrehte Deutschlandflaggen im Hintergrund xD
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For some reason I like 8. Simple and stylish. And I'm from Finland, so I see cross-flags most often. It just fits in my eyes. 7 is too strange for me, it doesn't look European at all. But of course, the 1 is not bad at all, I'm glad they chose it.
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Have to say I think Version 5 is most appropriate. From what I know, the black-gold-red scheme is meant to symbolize the unification and liberation of Germany, black representing disunity and subordination, gold representing solidarity and sovereignty, and red representing the German blood spilled to achieve such. Version 5 depicts these themes bottom-to-top in chronological order, representing the rise of Germany.
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It's not "meant" to be. It's just what some poets liked to attribute to the colors. The history of the color can be traced back to the uniform colors of the LΓΌtzow Free Corps in the Napoleonic wars.
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haste da auch einen beleg fΓΌr?^^
ich hab hier ja keine von mir ausgedachten flaggen gemacht
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First one is the best, other ones looks bit odd
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jeah it seems unfamiliar^^
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I think versions two and seven are particularly interesting. but I'll always be partial to #1.
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haha okay ;D
and thanks for the
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I don't like any of those, just boring stripes and ugly choice of color
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But the german colours are special, like the colours of fire^^
Ever seen, that extremely many countries have the combination: blue-white-red? France, USA, Russia, Netherlands, England...
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Kaiserreich choice of colors was better in my opinion, but even this one can look nice, just add german eagle into it
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ThatΒ΄s right, especially our modern eagle is ugly, I want the old one back!
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agreed, I love the color choices in the Kaiserreich.
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the flag of the Kaiserreich? it's boring... it hadn't got a history it just was something artificial... like the flag of the Czech republic or the flag of Kosovo
I love my black-red-gold flag!
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or modern flag of germany
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ehm? theese colors were used for the flag of the HRE and in the Napoleon wars O.o
and the flag is used since 1806... the czech since 1918
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so where is the "tradition boundary"? 
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To be fair: the Kaiserreich colors (black white red) have some history, as a combination of Prussia and the Hanseatic cities. But I agree that it's hardly fit to be considered "national colors" of Germany. I would dare to say that those are seperatist colors (like the American confederist flag). It was the flag of the North German Confederation which was instituted by Prussia after it has betrayed the German Confederation of which Austria was the head. So Prussia got rid of Austria and the proto-democratic German Confederation and instituted its own thing to which after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 the other remaining German states joined. And that's what we call "Germany" now... it's a shame.
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jeah many people like theese
and thanks for the
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I prefer version one, though the two Nordic cross flags proposed by 1940's Kreisauer Kreis and 1949's CDU are nice as well.
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jeah I like them, too^^ but they weren't used in this time
don't know the version of the Kreisauer Kreis but the versions of the CDU, Ernst Wirmer and Joseph Wirmer^^
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Sorry, my mistake. Both flags were actually proposed by Josef Wirmer, who was not a member of the Kreisauer Kreis, but of the affiliated group of the 20th of July around Goerdeler and Stauffenberg. And one of them was taken up by the CDU.
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I like number 7. 8 and 9 are cool, too, though.
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haha okay
and thanks for the
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