Federal Post Flag

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Service flag of the Deutsche Bundespost, 3: 5 ,? ?Service flag on land Historic flag
For comparison: the federal service flag

The Federal Post flag was on 7 June 1950 to 31 December 1994, an independent federal service flag , their use exclusively the Federal Post Office and the parent Ministry was allowed.

The federal post flag was abolished as a result of the transformation from a federal authority into three independent stock corporations ( Deutsche Post AG , Deutsche Postbank AG and Deutsche Telekom AG ) as part of the postal reform .

description

The Bundespostflagge was derived from the Reichspostflagge introduced in 1919 and had the horizontal stripes like the federal flag in black, red and gold . In the middle of the wider red horizontal stripe is a gold-colored post horn with a gold-colored cord, two gold-colored tassels and four gold-colored flashes of rays, the mouthpiece turned on the bar. The width ratio of the stripes is 4: 7: 4, the ratio of the height to the length of the flag cloth is 3: 5 (Order on German flags from June 7, 1950; Federal Law Gazette I: 205).

Pure woolen, hard worsted wool was prescribed as the flag cloth . The dyeing should be as fast as possible ( light , water and rub fastness). The post horn had to be affixed in the printing process to hoist and display flags.

Executions of the Federal Post Office flag

Hoisting and display flags

Thirteen different sizes of flags were used, always keeping the ratio three to five. In figurehead flags the lengths were not standardized, the widths correspond to the heights of hoisting flags.

Service vehicles

There were three versions in different sizes for flags on company vehicles. The post horn was made from natural silk as embroidery .

Mail signal flag for seagoing vessels

German naval and merchant ships led next to the merchant flag the Post Signal Flag as Stander , as long as they had mail on board. The postal signal flag could also be hoisted when a postal vehicle was on a ferry. The mail signal flag for seagoing vessels was intended to achieve preferential handling of the ships transporting mail. The mail signal flag for seagoing ships was suspended on September 26, 1990, as less and less mail was being transported by ship and, moreover, preferential handling of container ships was no longer possible.

  • Mail signal flag for seagoing ships ( mail ships ) (original)

  • Drawing with dimensions in mm

  • Mail signal flag for seagoing vessels

Compared to the service flag of the Deutsche Post of the GDR

The service flag of the Deutsche Post of the GDR was also derived from the Reichspost flag between 1955 and 1973. In contrast to the Federal Post Office flag, the three stripes were the same size. With the Flag Ordinance of January 3, 1973, Deutsche Post's official flags were finally abolished on April 30, 1973.

  • Service flag of the Deutsche Post of the GDR from 1947 to 1955 in the area of ​​the central administration and the upper post offices. Was used as a vehicle flag if the vehicles were not painted yellow.

  • Service pennant in the area of ​​post offices from 1947 to 1955 (only as a vehicle pennant)

  • Service flag of the Deutsche Post of the German Democratic Republic, 3: 5 ,? ? 1955 to 1973. Service flag on land and at sea Historic flag

See also

literature

  • Meyer: The German Post Flags: A Heraldic Contribution to the German Postal History from 1867 to the Present ; in: Archive for German Postal History, Hrst: Society for German Postal History ; Issue 1 from 1960; Pp. 32-39

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 52. Order on German flags of June 7, 1950, (BGBl. P. 205), (BGBl. III 1130-3)
  2. ^ German Society for Post and Telecommunication History e. V .: Post and Telecommunications History , 1st year, issue 2/1995, ISSN  0947-9945 , p. 27.
  3. ↑ Handwortbuch des Postwesens, Ed. Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications, 2nd completely revised edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1953, page 271 f.
  4. ↑ Ordinance amending the Fourth Implementing Ordinance for the Flag Law Act (Post Signal Flag for Sea Ships) of September 26, 1990, Federal Law Gazette 1990 Part I, page 2144
  5. ^ Ordinance on Flags, Banners and Service Pennants of the GDR of January 3, 1973, SDr. 751, Journal I 1973
  6. ^ OJ Central Administration for Post and Telecommunications in the Soviet Zone, 1947 p. 11
  7. ↑ Ordinance on the use of official flags and flags. From September 27, 1955. GDR

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