Baden-Württemberg 1952 proposals (Germany)

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• Rudi Keller's flag of "Schwaben"
• Dr Schweizers's Baden and Württemberg flag
• Wurster's Baden and Württemberg / Hohenzollern flag
• Schnibbe's "Schwaben" flag

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Rudi Keller's flag of "Schwaben"

Jan Oskar Engene has provided recently a BIB entry on the origin of Baden-Württemberg symbols (Baden-württembergische Befindlichkeiten), and also pointed our attention to the archive material available at the website of the Staatsarchiv. There are many proposals for the coat-of-arms for the new state Baden-Württemberg from about 1952, and also several flag proposals. I took the drawings of the flag proposals and cleaned them up a bit. The flag proposals are IMHO much better than the simple and boring bicolour that had been actually adopted.

Proposal by Rudi Keller, Freiburg, 1952, for a coat-of-arms and flag of "Schwaben" (Suebia). The flag would have been a banner-of-arms, showing: Or, three lions passant Sable.
 
 

Sources: This website - in this the archive files of the following numbers J 272 Nr. 13 - J 272 Nr. 18 - J 272 Nr. 19 - J 272 Nr. 24
Baden-württembergische Befindlichkeiten (BIB entry submitted by Jan Oskar Engene 21 Nov 02)
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 12 Dec 2002

Dr Schweizers's Baden and Württemberg flag

Proposal by Dr. Ing. Carl H. Schweizer, Stuttgart, 1949-52 for a flag combining the colours of Baden and Württemberg in a flag of five stripes: black-red-gold-red-black
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 12 Dec 2002

Wurster's Baden and Württemberg / Hohenzollern flag

Proposal by W. Wurster, Tübingen, 1952 for a flag combining the colours of Baden and Württemberg in a quartered flag, adding the Hohenzollern colours as a kind of inescutcheon.
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 12 Dec 2002

Schnibbe's "Schwaben" flag

Proposal by Klaus Schnibbe, Stuttgart, 1948-53 for a coat-of-arms and a flag of of "Schwaben" (Suebia). The flag would have been a banner-of-arms, showing: Or, three lions passant Sable, the right fore-paw Gules. The red fore-paw alludes to the decapitation of Konradin, the Staufer.
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 12 Dec 2002