Flag of the Weimar Republic

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The Flag of the Weimar Republic was the black-red-gold tricolour used by Germany’s democratic government between World War I and the rise of the Nazi regime.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf national flag
tricolour
abolishedBy Nazi government
abolitionYear 1935
adopted 1919
adoptedBy National Assembly at Weimar
coexistedWith black-white-red merchant and war ensigns in early Weimar years
color black
gold
red
country Germany
culturalMeaning symbol of failed first German democracy
design horizontal tricolour
historicalContext Treaty of Versailles era
post–World War I settlement
historicalOrigin black-red-gold colours of the 19th‑century German liberal movement
flag of the 1848–1849 German revolutions
historicalPrecursor flag of the German Confederation (black-red-gold)
influenced modern Flag of Germany
languageOfName German
laterReinterpretation rehabilitated as positive democratic symbol after 1945
legalBasis Weimar Constitution
nativeName Flagge der Weimarer Republik
Schwarz-Rot-Gold
opposedBy Nazi Party
monarchists in Germany
nationalists in Germany
periodOfUseEnd 1933
periodOfUseStart 1919
politicalAssociation liberalism
republican democracy
relatedSymbol black-red-gold cockade
replaced black-white-red tricolour of the German Empire
replacedBy black-white-red tricolour (Nazi-era co‑national flag)
swastika flag of Nazi Germany
sharesDesignWith Flag of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
status national flag of Germany
stripeOrderTopToBottom black-red-gold
symbolizes German democracy
German national unity
republicanism
usedAs civil flag
state flag
war flag (variant with additional symbols)
usedBy Weimar Republic
usedIn Reichstag building during Weimar era
diplomatic missions of Germany (1919–1933)
official buildings of the Weimar Republic

Referenced by (10)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Standard of the Chancellor of Germany ("Flag of Germany")
Standard of the President of Germany ("Flag of Germany")
relatedTo
Coat of arms of Germany ("Flag of Germany")
associatedWith
Standard of the President of Germany ("State flag of Germany")
distinctFrom
Vice Chancellor of Germany ("Flag of Germany")
flagUsed
Flag of the Weimar Republic ("modern Flag of Germany")
influenced
Flag of the Weimar Republic ("Flagge der Weimarer Republik")
nativeName
Flag of Nazi Germany
replaced
Flag of Nazi Germany ("Flag of Germany")
replacedBy
Flag of the Weimar Republic ("Flag of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)")
sharesDesignWith

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