Flag of Saxony

Free State of Saxony

Landesflagge
Use	Civil flag
Proportion	3:5 (or 1:2)
Adopted	1920, 1947, 1991
Design	A bicolor of white over green.
Landesdienstflagge
Use	State flag
Proportion	3:5 (or 1:2)
Adopted	1991
Design	The civil flag with the addition of the coat of arms.

Both the civil and state flag of the German state of Saxony feature a bicolour of white over green, similar to the Austrian province of Styria although they are historically not related to each other. The state flag is similar to the civil flag, except it is defaced in the centre with the coat of arms of Saxony. The colours of both flags were officially decided as state colours in 1815 ^[1] in the Kingdom of Saxony. The aristocracy used mostly and in first time the quadrangular version and later the rectangular.

Design

The civil bicolour flag of white over green was used before World War II, and formally abolished in 1935, under the reforms of the Third Reich. It was readopted 1945 when Saxony became a state again, and abolished 1952 under governing reforms of the German Democratic Republic. When Germany was reunited, Saxony became a state again, and so the flag was finally officially readopted in 1991, having been a much used symbol during the demonstrations in the German Democratic Republic in 1989/90. ^[2]

Colors

The Constitution of the Free State of Saxony defines the "state colors" as simply "white and green", with no further specifications. ^[3] On 2 June 1999, the federal cabinet introduced a corporate design for the German government which defined "green" as RGB 0,133,74 or PANTONE® 7731, but it is unclear if these guidelines apply to the states, and in any case, in practice the specific shades can vary wildly, especially in unofficial uses. ^{[4] [5]}

Colour scheme	Green
CMYK		100.0.100.20
		85.0.100.0 [a]
Pantone (approximation)		7731
Decimal RGB		0,133,74

1. For newspapers.

Landtag of the Free State of Saxony

Landtag of the Free State of Saxony uses its own flag.

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  Flag of Landtag of Saxony.

Minority flags

Paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the Free State of Saxony guarantees other flags equality alongside the Saxon state flag. ^[6]

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  Flag of Silesians (with eagle)
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  Flag of Silesians
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  Flag of Sorbs

Gallery

Previous versions

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  First Saxon flag of Old Saxony (700–785)
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  Saxon flag by the House of Ascania; associated for the Saxon Ostmark and battleflag for the Saxon Eastern March; crusades around 950
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  Royal standard of the House of Wettin
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  Ducal standard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1826–1920), designed by Queen Victoria
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  Royal Standard of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as consort of Queen Victoria (1840–1861)
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  Saxe-Altenburg (1602–1672, 1826–1918, 1918–1920)
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  Saxe-Meiningen flag design during 1826–1918
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  Saxe-Weimar Banner of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe Weimar who was the patron of Goethe and Schiller
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  Electorate of Saxony (1356–1806)
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  The height of Saxony's power: Royal standard of the Saxon Kings of Poland-Lithuania (1697–1706; 1709–1763)
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  Without coat of arms (the flag of the Kingdom of Saxony, until 1815)
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  The flag of the Kingdom of Saxony (1815–1918), the Free State of Saxony (Weimar Republic (1918–1925), and reunified Germany (since 1991)
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  War flag with cannons, bombs, lances and one Fire Salamander, who can live in, eat and his drunken blood protects from fire (1697–1706; 1709–1763)
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  The banner of the Margraviate of Meissen for troops or princes (1806–1918)
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  Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1809–1920)
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  Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach (1596–1638; 1640–1644; 1662–1809)
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  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1826–1911)
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  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1911–1920)
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  Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1680–1826)
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  Saxe-Hildburghausen (1680–1826)
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  Flag of Gau Saxony (1933–1945)

See also

• Coat of arms of Saxony

References

1. State Chancellery (1991), Gesetz über das Wappen des Freistaates Sachsen vom 18. November 1991 (Law on the arms of the Free State Saxony of 18 November 1991)
2. Siobhán Ryan (2002-03-19), Verwaltungsvorschrift des Sächsischen Staatskanzlei über die Beflaggung der Dienstgebäude im Freistaat Sachsen (Administrative Regulation of the Saxon Prime Minister's Office on the Display of Flags in Official Buildings in the Free State of Saxony) (in German)
3. State Chancellery (1991), Gesetz über das Wappen des Freistaates Sachsen vom 18. November 1991 (Law on the arms of the Free State Saxony of 18 November 1991)
4. Federal Government of Germany (17 December 2007). "Primärfarben". Corporate Design Documentation (in German). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
5. "Styleguide der Bundesregierung". Bundesregierung. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
6. "REVOSax Landesrecht Sachsen - Verfassung". www.revosax.sachsen.de. Retrieved 2020-02-17.