Germany Flags – German Flag, Bunting & State Flags

Germany flags: the German flag in black, red and gold

The German flag, the Bundesflagge, is three horizontal bands of black, red and gold in a 3:5 proportion, black uppermost. The colours go back to the uniforms of the Lützow Free Corps in the wars against Napoleon and were taken up by the students and liberals of the 1848 Frankfurt Parliament as the colours of a united Germany. The Weimar Republic made them national in 1919, the Federal Republic restored them in May 1949, and since reunification on 3 October 1990 the same tricolour has flown over the whole country. Our Germany flag is printed with the bands in the correct order, which matters because black-red-gold reversed is the flag of nobody at all, and a rival shade of “yellow” is the quickest way to spot a poor copy.

Alongside the plain national flag we stock the Germany crest flag with the federal eagle, the East Germany flag with the hammer, compass and ring of rye used by the DDR from 1959 to 1990, and a Germany smiley face flag for the fan park.

Oktoberfest, Unity Day and the football

German flags sell in two waves. The first is Oktoberfest, when pubs, breweries and student unions across Britain build beer halls from mid-September into early October and need Germany bunting by the metre and Bavarian lozenges to go with it. The second is tournament football, when every German bar and expat club wants a 5ft x 3ft for the window and hand flags for the bar. German Unity Day on 3 October and the Christmas-market season carry demand through to December.

Sizes and uses

5ft x 3ft is the size for a garden telescopic pole, a bar frontage or a wall bracket. 3ft x 2ft suits a 10–12ft pole, a classroom or a student room; 8ft x 5ft fills a club flagpole, a stage backdrop or a beer-tent gable. Eyelets come as standard, with rope and toggle or clips available on the DuraFlag grade.

Flagtex, Flagtex Nylon and DuraFlag

Flagtex is the budget printed polyester, printed through so both faces show the design, and it is all most parties and fan zones need. Flagtex Nylon has a tighter weave and a quadruple-stitched fly end for a season of outdoor use. The DuraFlag Germany flag is the permanent option: 150gsm knitted polyester, double-stitched hems, a reinforced header and UV-fast inks for flags that stay up on a school, hotel or consulate pole all year.

Germany bunting

Germany bunting carries the national flag on every pennant, printed on weatherproof polyester and sewn to a strong tape so it survives a fortnight outside a beer tent. For a plainer look the black, red and gold triangle bunting alternates solid-colour pennants, while Germany crest bunting and East Germany bunting cover themed events and Cold War displays.

Hand flags, table flags and windsocks

Germany hand flags on wooden sticks are sold singly and in packs for supporters’ clubs, schools and parades, with crest and East Germany versions to match. The Germany table flag with base suits a reception desk, a German restaurant or a language-school office, and the Germany windsock brings colour to a campsite or garden pole.

German state flags: Bavaria, Berlin and the sixteen Länder

Every one of Germany’s sixteen federal states is in the German state flags range: the white-and-blue lozenges of Bavaria with and without crest, the bear of Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Baden-Württemberg. Historic regions such as Franconia, East Frisia, Pomerania and East Prussia sit beside them, several with bunting, hand flags and table flags of their own. Austria, Switzerland and the rest of Europe are under world flags, and Imperial, Weimar and wartime designs for re-enactors and museums are a related range under German military flags.

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Popular in this collection

• Germany Flag (3x2 to 8x5ft, 3 grades)from £6.99
• Germany Buntingfrom £9.98
• Germany Hand Flagspacks
• Germany Crest Flagfederal eagle
• German State Flagsall 16 Länder
• Telescopic Flag Poles3m–12m