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Heraldry of the Third Reich

deuche heraldic 1939-1945

The Emblem of the Thule Gesellschaft
precursor of the NSDAP

The Thule-Gesellschaft (Thule Society), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ("Study Group for Germanic Antiquity"), was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend.

The Society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), which was later reorganized by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's "membership list...reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich", including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer.

The Emblem of the Thule Gesellschaft

(variation)

Germanenorden Walvater des Heiligen Grals

Thule Swastika

The Thule swastika is distinguished from other forms of the swastika by its curved arms. This is the true form of the 'Nordic' swastika, representing the 'whisk of creation' and the galactic spiral.

Lanz von Liebenfels' Swastika Flag

Adolf Josef Lanz aka Jörg Lanz, who called himself Lanz von Liebenfels (July 19, 1874 – April 22, 1954) was an Austrian publicist and journalist.

He was a former monk and the founder of the magazine Ostara, in which he published anti-semitic and völkisch theories.

Lanz von Liebenfels' Swastika Flag

Germanenorden

The Germanenorden was a völkisch secret society in early 20th century Germany.

It was founded in Berlin in 1912 by Theodor Fritsch and several prominent German occultists including Philipp Stauff, who held office in the List Society and High Armanen Order as well as Hermann Pohl, who became the Germanenorden’s first leader.

The group was a clandestine movement aimed at the upper echelons of society and was a sister movement to the more open and mainstream Reichshammerbund.

The order, whose symbol was a swastika, had a hierarchical fraternal structure based on Freemasonry.

Local groups of the sect met to celebrate the summer solstice, an important neo-pagan festivity in völkisch circles (and later in the Third Reich), and more regularly to read the Eddas as well as some of the German mystics.

In addition to occult and magical philosophies, it taught to its initiates nationalist ideologies of Nordic racial superiority and antisemitism, then rising throughout the Western world. As was becoming increasingly typical of völkisch organisations, it required its candidates to prove that they had no non-Aryan bloodlines.

Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP

Flag of the Third Reich

(1933-1945)

The design of the flag of the Third Reich was introduced by Hitler as the flag of the NSDAP in mid-1920: a flag with a red background, a white disk and a black swastika in the middle.

In 'Mein Kampf', Hitler explained the process by which the Nazi flag design was created: It was necessary to use the same colours as Imperial Germany, because in Hitler's opinion they were "revered colours expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honour to the German nation."

The most important requirement was that "the new flag... should prove effective as a large poster" because "in hundreds of thousands of cases a really striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening interest in a movement." Nazi propaganda clarified the symbolism of the flag: the red colour stood for the social, white for the movement's national thinking and the swastika for the victory of the Aryan peoples.

Several designs by a number of different authors were considered, but the one adopted in the end was Hitler's personal design.

Albert Speer stated in his memoirs that "in only two other designs did he (Adolf Hitler) execute the same care as he did his Obersalzberg house: that of the Reich War Flag and his own standard of Chief of State (see below)".

Standarte Adolf Hitlers - Third Reich

Hoheitszeichen - Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

National Emblem of the Third Reich

(Reich Adler)

During the Third Reich a stylised eagle combined with the swastika was made the national emblem (Hoheitszeichen) by order of Adolf Hitler in 1935.

Despite its mediæval origin, the term "Reichsadler" in common English understanding is mostly associated with this version.

The NSDAP had used a very similar symbol for itself, called the Parteiadler ("Party's eagle"). These two insignia can be distinguished as the Reichsadler looks to its right shoulder whereas the Parteiadler looks to its left shoulder.

Hoheitszeichen - Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

National Emblem of the Third Reich

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Adler des Dritten Reiches

(Third Reich Eagle and Swastika)

(Reich Adler)

Wappen Reichsgau Sudetenland

(Coat of Arms of the Reich District of the Southern Country)

Der Reichsgau Sudetenland wurde aus dem größten Teil der 1938 einverleibten Gebiete[1] der Tschechoslowakei gebildet und bestand im Deutschen Reich von 1939 bis 1945. An der Spitze der Verwaltung des Territoriums stand der Reichsstatthalter Konrad Henlein. Der Reichsgau Sudetenland war in die Regierungsbezirke Eger, Aussig und Troppau unterteilt und umfasste im Oktober 1938 22.608 km², im Dezember desselben Jahres infolge weiterer Gebietskorrekturen 29.140 km². Gauhauptstadt war das böhmische Reichenberg.

(The Reich District of Sudetenland consisted of the areas of Czechoslovakia occupied by Volksdeutsch and became part of the German Reich from 1939 to 1945.

At the head of the administration of the territory was the imperial governor Konrad Henlein . The Reichsgau Sudetenland was divided into the districts of Erlau, Aussig and Troppau.

The Provincial capital was Reichenberg.)

Greater Arms of the Protectorate of Moravia and Bohemia

Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Protektorát Cechy a Morava) was the majority ethnic-Czech protectorate which Nazi Germany established in the central parts of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia in what is today the Czech Republic.

It was established on 15 March 1939 by proclamation of Adolf Hitler from Prague Castle following the declaration of establishment of the independent Slovak Republic on 14 March 1939.

Bohemia and Moravia were autonomous Nazi-administered territories which the German government considered part of the Greater German Reich.

The state's existence came to an end in 1945.

Lesser Arms of the Protectorate of Moravia and Bohemia

Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren

Heer (Army)

Decal for Helmet 1942 - Third Reich

Emblem of the Deutsches Afrikakorps

Deutsches Afrikakorps, DAK - (German Africa Corps), or the Afrika Korps as it was popularly called, was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II.

The reputation of the Afrika Korps is synonymous with that of its first commander Erwin Rommel, who later commanded the Panzer Army Africa which evolved into the German-Italian Panzer Army (Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee) and Army Group Africa, all of which Afrika Korps was a distinct and principal component.

Throughout the North African campaign, the Afrika Korps fought against superior Allied forces right to the very end in May 1943 when it surrendered.

GrossAdmiralflagge 1939-1945

Third Reich

Reicharbeitsdienstflagge - R D A

Third Reich

The Reichsarbeitsdienst (or RAD, Reich Labour Service) was an institution established as an agency to reduce unemployment, similar to the relief programs in other countries.

During the Second World War it was an auxiliary formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht.

On 5 June 1931, two years before the Nazi Party ascended to power, Konstantin Hierl became head of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst or FAD, a state sponsored voluntary labour organization that provided services to civic and agricultural construction projects.

There were many such organizations in Europe at the time, founded to provide much-needed employment during the Great Depression.

At the time, Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and when the Party took power in 1933, he remained the head of the labour organization - now called the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD.

On 11 July 1934, the NSAD was renamed as the Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD (State Labor Service) and Hierl would be its director until the end of World War II.

The RAD was an amalgamation of the many prior labour organisations formed in Germany during the times of the Weimar Republic.

RAD members were to provide service for various civic, military and agricultural construction projects.

'Blut und Boden'

Emblem of the Reichsnährstand

Third Reich

Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil) refers to an ideology that focuses on ethnicity based on two factors, descent (Blood (of a folk)) and homeland/Heimat (Soil).

It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and cultivate, and it places a high value on the virtues of rural living.

Richard Walther Darré (born Ricardo Walther Oscar Darré, 14 July 1895 - 5 September 1953) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" (German: Blut und Boden) ideologists.

He served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and Reichsbauernführer and leader of the Reichsnährstand.

Org Todt

SS - Schutzstaffel

Third Reich

The Schutzstaffel translated to Protection Squadron or defence corps, abbreviated SS—or with stylized "Armanen" sig runes was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler.

The SS was built upon Nazi ideology and was under Heinrich Himmler's command.

The origin of the SS came from a small permanent guard unit made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for Nazi Party meetings in Munich.

Formed at the end of 1920, they were known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection).

Later under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the "Schutz-Staffel" and grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich.

SS - Schutzstaffel

Third Reich

SA (STURMABTEILUNG) STANDARTE

BERLIN

A red vexillum. At the center a black upright swastika with a silver-black border in a white disk with a silver border. Above the disk the word Deutschland (Germany), below the word Erwache (awake!). Surrounded by a silver black-white-red fringe (except at top). Ratio 5:6. Connected by a black-white-red rope to a red rectangle with the name of the unit (earlier with the letters NSDAP). The top of the staff has an eagle grasping a swastika in a wreath.

The Sturmabteilung (SA) - (Storm Detachment) - functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s.

SA men were often called "brownshirts" for the colour of their uniforms.

The SA was the first National Socialist paramilitary group to develop pseudo-military titles for bestowal upon its members.

The SA ranks were adopted by several other Nazi Party groups, chief amongst them the SS, itself originally a branch of the SA.

The SA became largely irrelevant after Adolf Hitler ordered the "Blood purge" of 1934.

This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives.

The SA was effectively superseded by the SS, though never formally dissolved.

Seal of the Ahnenerbe

(Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte Deutsches Ahnenerbe)

Ahnenerbe Emblem

(Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte Deutsches Ahnenerbe)

The Ahnenerbe was a German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History."

Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.

Heinrich Himmler claimed and promoted that the Aryans originally came from Atlantis and were beings directly from heaven. They did not evolve as did other humanoids.
Formally, the group was called Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte‚ Deutsches Ahnenerbe e.V. ("Study society for primordial intellectual history, German Ancestral Heritage, registered society"), and was renamed in 1937, as Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft das Ahnenerbe e.V. ("Research and Teaching Community the Ancestral Heritage, registered society").

Ahnenerbe Emblem

(variation)

Black Sun & Runes

The term Black Sun (German Schwarze Sonne), also referred to as the Sonnenrad (the German for "Sun Wheel"), is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance.

Its design bases on a sun wheel incorporated in a floor of Wewelsburg Castle.

oday, it may also be used in occult currents of Germanic neopaganism, and in Irminenschaft or Armanenschaft-inspired esotericism.

Berlin Olympic Logo

National Socialist Civic Arms of Munich

Because of its importance to the rise of National Socialism, Munich was referred to as the Hauptstadt der Bewegung ("Capital of the Movement").

The NSDAP headquarters was in Munich and many Führerbauten ("Führer-buildings") were built around the Königsplatz, some of which have survived to this day.

National Socialist Civic Arms of Berchtesgaden

Berchtesgaden is a municipality in the German Bavarian Alps.

It is located in the south district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria, near the border with Austria, some 30 km south of Salzburg and 180 km southeast of Munich.

To the south of the city the Berchtesgaden National Park stretches along three parallel valleys.

Berchtesgaden is often associated with the Mount Watzmann, at 2713 m the third-highest mountain in Germany (after Zugspitze and Hochwanner), which is renowned in the rock climbing community for its Ostwand (East Face), and a deep glacial lake by the name of Königssee (5.2 km²).

Another notable peak is the Kehlstein mountain (1835 m) with its Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest), which offers spectacular views to its visitors.

The area of Obersalzberg was purchased by the Nazis in the 1920s for their senior leaders to enjoy. Hitler's mountain residence, the Berghof, was located here.

Berchtesgaden and its environs (Stanggass) were fitted to serve as an outpost of the German Reichskanzlei office (Imperial Chancellery).

Some typical Third Reich buildings in Berchtesgaden include the railway station, that had a reception area for Hitler and his guests, and the post office next to the railway station.

The Berchtesgadener Hof Hotel was a hotel where famous visitors stayed, such as Eva Braun, Erwin Rommel, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, as well as Neville Chamberlain and David Lloyd George.

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German Heraldry

Arms of the Order of Teutonic Knights

The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (Official names: Latin: Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum, German: Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem), or for short the Teutonic Order is a German medieval military order.

It was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to establish hospitals. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since they also served as a crusading military order in the Middle Ages.

The military membership was always small, with volunteers and mercenaries augmenting the force as needed.

Arms of the Order of Teutonic Knights

Wappen Heiliges Römisches Reich

Coat of Arms Holy Roman Empire

Wappen Deutscher Bund

(Coat of Arms of the German Confederation)

Coat of Arms of the North German Confederation

Wappen Hohenstaufen

Preußischer Adler

One of the most familiar heraldic symbols, the German eagle is one of the oldest state symbols in Europe.

The black eagle, with red beak and claws, displayed on a gold shield, also reflects the colors of the German flag.

The imperial eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, similarly, was a black eagle displayed on a gold shield, but it usually had two heads, whereas all modern German state heraldic displays feature a single-headed eagle.

The current coat of arms of Germany, known as the Bundesadler (federal eagle) - see below - is emblazoned: Or, an eagle sable with armaments gules.

Wappen des Königreichs Preußen

The Kingdom of Prussia (German: Königreich Preußen) was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918.

Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire.

It took its name from the territory of Prussia, although its power base was Brandenburg.

Wappen Preußen

Crown of the Kingdom of Prussia

Heraldic Depiction of the Royal Crown of Prussia

Hoher Orden vom Schwarzen Adler

(Order of the Black Eagle)

The Order of the Black Eagle (German: Hoher Orden vom Schwarzen Adler) was the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia.

The order was founded on 17 January 1701 by Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg (who became Friedrich I, King in Prussia, the following day).

In his Dutch exile after WWI, deposed Emperor Wilhelm II continued to award the order to his family.

He made his second wife, Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz, a Lady in the Order of the Black Eagle.

Wappen von Wittelsbach

Arms of the Royal Family of Bavaria

The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria.

Members of the family served as Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria (1180–1918), Counts Palatine of the Rhine (1214–1803 and 1816–1918), Margraves of Brandenburg (1323–1373), Counts of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland (1345–1432), Elector-Archbishops of Cologne (1583–1761), Dukes of Jülich and Berg (1614–1794/1806), Kings of Sweden (1441–1448 and 1654–1720) and Dukes of Bremen-Verden (1654–1719).

The family also provided two Holy Roman Emperors (1328/1742), one King of the Romans (1400), two Anti-Kings of Bohemia (1619/1742), one King of Hungary (1305), one King of Denmark and Norway (1440) and a King of Greece (1832–1862).

The family's head, since 1996, is Franz, Duke of Bavaria.

Krone des königreichs bayern

(Crown of the Kingdom of Bavaria)

Krone des Königreichs Bayern

(Crown of the Kingdom of Bavaria)

Krone des Königreichs Bayern

(Crown of the Kingdom of Bavaria)

Krone des Königreichs Bayern

(Heraldic Rendering of the Crown of the Kingdom of Bavaria

Wappen des Königreichs Bayern

Das Bayerische Staatswappen

The Golden Lion: At the dexter chief, sable, a lion rampant Or, armed and langued gules.

This represents the administrative region of Upper Palatinate. It is identical to the coat of arms of the Electoral Palatinate.

The "Franconian Rake": At the sinister chief, per fess dancetty, gules and argent.

This represents the administrative regions of Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia.

This was the coat of arms of the prince bishops of Würzburg, who were also dukes of Franconia.

The Blue Panther: At the dexter base, argent, a panther rampant azure, armed Or and langued gules. This represents the regions of Lower and Upper Bavaria.

The Three Lions: At the sinister base, Or, three lions passant guardant sable, armed and langued gules. This represents Swabia.

The White-And-Blue Heart Shield: The heart shield of white and blue oblique fusils was originally the coat of arms of the Counts of Bogen, adopted in 1247 by the House of Wittelsbach.

The white-and-blue fusils are indisputably the emblem of Bavaria and the heart shield today symbolizes Bavaria as a whole.

Along with the People's Crown, it is officially used as the Minor Coat of Arms.

The People's Crown: The four coat fields with the heart shield in the centre are crowned with a golden band with precious stones decorated with five ornamental leaves.

This crown appeared for the first time in the coat of arms in 1923 to symbolize sovereignty of the people after the dropping out of the royal crown.

Bavaria was one of the stem duchies of the Eastern Franconian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.

The House of Wittelsbach, who ruled in Bavaria for about eight centuries, used the coat lozengy since 1242, later quartering it with the lion of the Palatinate.

Bavaria became a kingdom in 1806, and in 1835 a new coat of arms was created, similar to today's but representing some regions by different coats of arms.

The first known coat of arms of the house of Wittelsbach is Gules, a golden fess dancetty on a blue shield.

When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen, he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land.The number of lozenges varied; from 15th century 21 were used, increasing to 42 when Bavaria became a kingdom in 1806.

The official coat of arms was designed by Eduard Ege in a somewhat 'mannered' Art Deco style in 1946. The design above is by the author of this blog.

Arch-Ducal Coat of Arms of Hesse

Wappen Potsdam

The name "Potsdam" originally seems to have been "Poztupimi" from a West Slavonic name meaning "beneath the oaks", highlighting the area's many grand oak trees.

Potsdam has several claims to national and international notability.

In Germany, it had the status Windsor has in Britain: it was the residence of the Prussian kings and German Kaisers, until 1918.

Around the city there are a series of interconnected lakes and unique cultural landmarks, in particular the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany.

The Potsdam Conference, the major post-World War II conference between the victorious Allies, was held at another palace in the area, the Cecilienhof.

Babelsberg, in the south-eastern part of Potsdam, was a major movie production studio before the war and has enjoyed increased success as a major centre of European film production since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Filmstudio Babelsberg is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world.

Potsdam developed into a centre of science in Germany from the 19th century. Today, there are three public colleges and more than 30 research institutes in the city.

Stadtwappen München

Stadtwappen Berchtesgaden

Stadtwappen Bayreuth

Bayreuth - Upper Franconian is a sizeable town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains.

The town's roots date back to 1194 and it is nowadays the capital of Upper Franconia with a population of 72,576 (2009).

It is world-famous for its annual Bayreuth Festival at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.

Wappen Ruhpolding

Ruhpolding is a municipality of the Traunstein district in southeastern Bavaria, Germany.

It is situated in the south of the Chiemgau region in the Alps.

The name "Ruhpolding" originates from the Bavarian word Rupoltingin and means "the people of the strong famous one".

The town is mentioned as Ruhpoldingen for the first time in 1193.

It was connected through railway in 1895.

Since 1948, Ruhpolding became a famous spa and tourist resort.

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RUHPOLDING

Wappen der Provinz Westfalen

Stadtwappen Münster

The city of Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region.

It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland.

The city is best known as the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation, as the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648.

Münster gained the status of a Großstadt with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1915.

Currently there are around 270,000 people living in the city, with about 48,500 students, only some of whom are recorded in the official population statistics as having their primary residence in Münster.

In the Middle Ages Münster was a leading member of the Hanseatic League.

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Wappen Deutsches Reich - Reichswappen - 1871

Großes Wappen Seiner Majestät des Kaisers

Kaiser is the German title meaning "Emperor", with Kaiserin being the female equivalent, "Empress".

Like the Russian Czar it is directly derived from the Latin Emperors' title of Caesar, which in turn is derived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which Gaius Julius Caesar, the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged.

Although the British monarchs styled "Emperor of India" were also called "Kaisar-i-Hind" in Hindi and Urdu, this word, although ultimately sharing the same Latin origin, is derived from the Greek Kaisar, not the German Kaiser.

In English, the term the Kaiser is usually reserved for the Emperors of the German Empire, the emperors of the Austrian Empire and those of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Deutsches Reich - Kaiserkrone - (1889)

Krone des Heiligen Römischen Reiches

(Crown of the Holy Roman Empire)

(Hofburg weltliche Schatzkammer in Wien)

The Great Arms of the Second Reich

The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich, but also the called Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich or Kaiserreich by German historians) refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

Imperial Cypher of Wilhelm I

by the Grace of God, German Emperor and King of Prussia; Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Hohenzollern; sovereign and supreme Duke of Silesia and of the County of Glatz; Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine and of Posen; Duke of Saxony, of Westphalia, of Angria, of Pomerania, Lunenburg, Holstein and Schleswig, of Magdeburg, of Bremen, of Guelders, Cleves, Jülich and Berg, Duke of the Wends and the Kassubes, of Crossen, Lauenburg and Mecklenburg; Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia; Prince of Orange; Prince of Rügen, of East Friesland, of Paderborn and Pyrmont, of Halberstadt, Münster, Minden, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, of Verden, Cammin, Fulda, Nassau and Moers; Princely Count of Henneberg; Count of Mark, of Ravensberg, of Hohenstein, Tecklenburg and Lingen, of Mansfeld, Sigmaringen and Veringen; Lord of Frankfurt.

Imperial Cypher of Kaiser Wilhelm II

by the Grace of God, German Emperor and King of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Hohenzollern, Duke of Silesia and of the County of Glatz, Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine and of Posen, Duke of Saxony, of Angria, of Westphalia, of Pomerania and of Lunenburg, Duke of Schleswig, of Holstein and of Crossen, Duke of Magdeburg, of Bremen, of Guelderland and of Jülich, Cleves and Berg, Duke of the Wends and the Kashubians, of Lauenburg and of Mecklenburg, Landgrave of Hesse and in Thuringia, Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia, Prince of Orange, of Rugen, of East Friesland, of Paderborn and of Pyrmont, Prince of Halberstadt, of Münster, of Minden, of Osnabrück, of Hildesheim, of Verden, of Kammin, of Fulda, of Nassau and of Moers, Princely Count of Henneberg, Count of the Mark, of Ravensberg, of Hohenstein, of Tecklenburg and of Lingen, Count of Mansfeld, of Sigmaringen and of Veringen, Lord of Frankfurt

Kaiserliche Fahne der deutschen Kaiser

(Imperial Standard of the German Kaiser)

Wappen Deutsches Reich - (Weimarer Republik)

Arms of the German Federal Republic

Banner of the German Federal Republic

Wappen Memel

AUSTRIA

Wappen Kaisertum Österreich

The Small Arms of the Kingdom of Hungary

Crown of the Kingdom of Hungary

Wappen Österreich-Ungarn 1916

Coat of Arms of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

The Austro-Hungarian Empire, more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in Central Europe.

The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, under which the House of Habsburg agreed to share power with the separate Hungarian government, dividing the territory of the former Austrian Empire between them.

The Austrian and the Hungarian lands became independent entities enjoying equal status. Austria-Hungary was a multinational realm and one of the world's great powers at the time

Wappen Kaiser Franz Joseph

Franz Joseph I (Hungarian: I. Ferenc József, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow.

Franz Joseph died on 21 November 1916, after ruling his domains for almost 68 years.

He was succeeded by his grandnephew Karl.

Imperial Austrian Crown Jewels

(Hofburg weltliche Schatzkammer in Wien)

Kaiserkrone
(Imperial Crown)

(Hofburg weltliche Schatzkammer in Wien)

Wappen von Sofie Chotek Herzogin von Hohenberg

Austro-Hungarian Arch-ducal Standard - (1915)

Imperial Standard of Austria-Hungary - (1915-1918)

Flag of Austria-Hungary - 1869-1918

Vaterländischen Front von Österreich

Österreich Wappen - (1934-1938)

(Coat of Arms of Austria)

Österreich Bundesadler

Kaiserliche Wappen von Wien

(Imperial Coat of Arms of Vienna)

Stadt Wappen von Salzburg

Coat of Arms of the Bundesland Tirol

Republik Österreich

Wappen Ehrwald

Wappen Lermoos

Wappen Linz

Wappen Weitra

Wappen Braunau am Inn

Wappen Steyr

Wappen Urfahr

Stadtwappen Lambach

Wappen Spital am Pyhrn

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HERALDRY OF THE THIRD REICH

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Features an exhaustive and beautifully rendered set of Third Reich emblems, badges, flags and regalia by the renowned heraldic artist Peter Crawford - and also includes brief notes on the various groups and organisations, and additional contemporary photos and posters. A 'must see' for all those interested in this period of history, and/or heraldic and graphic art.

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EMBLEMS OF THE THIRD REICH

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