08/05/2017 · This was seen by West Germany as a deliberate attempt to further divide the two nations, and as such they nicknamed the East German flag die Spalterflagge – ‘the divider flag’. When the country officially re-united in 1990, the flag went back to the original, tricolour flag. German state flags

The flag of East Germany was the official national flag of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during its existence from 1949 to 1990. The flag's design and symbolism are derived from the flag of the Weimar Republic and communist symbolism. The flag was outlawed as an unconstitutional and.

The plain tricolour was also used in the communist-dominated German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany), although its coat of arms was added to the tricolour in 1959. The GDR flag disappeared in 1990 when the two Germanys were reunited as a single state. No changes were made in the symbols of the Federal Republic at the time of reunion.

The German Democratic Republic (East Germany ) used the same flag, but on October 1, 1959 it introduced a communist emblem to the centre of the flag: a hammer (symbolizing the workers), and a pair of compasses (symbolizing the intellectuals) inside ears …

Although the union never occurred, a flag comprising equal widths of black, red, and gold was established. The three colors were the same colors that appeared on the uniforms of German soldiers during the Napoleonic wars. When the states were finally united in 1871, the colors were replaced with black, white, and red.

Following the collapse of one-party rule in East Germany in late-1989, the signing of a Unification Treaty by East and West German Governments on August 31, 1990, and a series of meetings between the foreign ministers of East and West Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in Bonn, Berlin, Paris, and Moscow, a Treaty on the Final Settlement with …