List of Austrian flags

This is a list of flags used in Austria. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Austria.

National and state flag[]

State Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1230–1806 1918–1934 1945–present	National flag and civil ensign	The flag of Austria has three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and red.
	1955–present	State and war flag and state and naval ensign	Three equal horizontal bands of red, white, and red, with the coat of arms surmounted.
	1945–present	Flag of Austria (vertical).

Standards[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	-1984	Standard for a Member of the Federal Government or the Federal President	Used only on army occasions (out of use since 1984).

Personal standards of emperors[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1804-1835	Standard of the Emperor Francis
	1848 – 1915	Standard of the Emperor Franz Joseph
	1915–1918	Standard of the Emperor & King	Displays both the Imperial crown of Austria and the Royal crown of Hungary.
	1915–1918	Standard of Archdukes and Archduchesses	Displays both the Imperial crown of Austria and the Royal crown of Hungary.

Austria under National Socialism[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1935-1945	Personal standard of Adolf Hitler, as Führer after the Anschluss.	Served also as a command flag as Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht.

Military flags[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Standard for a General of the Austrian Armed Forces
		Commander pennant
		Officer pennant
		Ceremonial flag of the Gardebataillon (Guard of Honour)

Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	The flag used by Habsburg forces during the Hungarian revolution of 1848 and 1849.	War flag of the Habsburg Empire
	1915-1918	Flag of the Generalfeldmarschall (never used)
	1880-1894	Rank flag for the Habsburg Field Marshal's
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg General
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg Lieutenant Field Marshal
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg Major General

Naval flags[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1936-1938	Jack of Austria
	1929-1934	State Ensign of Austria
	1934-1938	State Ensign of Austria
	1926-1934 or 1935	Naval Ensign and Jack of Austria

Austro-Hungarian Navy[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1894-1918	Austro-Hungarian Naval Jack
	stipulated by law in 1915 but never used	Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Groß-Admiral
	stipulated by law in 1915 but never used	Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Admiral
	stipulated by law in 1915 but never used	Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Vice-Admiral
	stipulated by law in 1915 but never used	Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Rear Admiral
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg Groß-Admiral
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg Admiral
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg Vice Admiral
	1880-1894	Rank flag of the Habsburg Rear Admiral
	1828-1853	Rank flag of the Habsburg Admiral
	1853-1880	Rank flag of the Habsburg Admiral

Police[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		River police pennant.

State flags[]

Civil Flag	State Flag	State	Year adopted	Description
		Burgenland	1971	Two equal bands of red and yellow (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version)
		Carinthia (Kärnten)	1946	Three equal bands of yellow, red and white (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Lower Austria (Niederösterreich)	1954	Two equal bands of blue and yellow (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Salzburg	1921	Two equal bands of red and white(with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Styria (Steiermark)	1960	Two equal bands of white and green (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Tyrol (Tirol)	1945	Two equal bands white of red (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Upper Austria (Oberösterreich)	1949	Two equal bands white of red (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Vienna (Wien)		Two equal bands of red and white (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).
		Vorarlberg		Two equal bands of red and white (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).

Political flags[]

Flag	Date	Party	Description
	2004–present	Black-Yellow Alliance	Black-Yellow flag, historical flag of the Habsburg Monarchy
	1933-1938	Fatherland Front (Austria)
	1945–present	Social Democratic Party of Austria	White Three Arrows on a red background
	1930-1938	Ostmärkische Sturmscharen

Ethnic groups flags[]

Flag	Date	Party	Description
	???–present	Carinthian Slovenes
	???–present	Burgenland Croats	Austrian flag with Coat of arms of Croatia
	Unofficial	Yeniche people

Historical flags[]

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1453-1804	Flag of the Archduchy of Austria
	1685-1740	Flag of the Archduchy of Austria	A yellow field with a black double headed eagle with a crown on top and carrying the tricolored arms of Austria on his chest.
	1804–1918	Flag of the Austrian Empire	Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy and also the flag of the Austrian Empire; from the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, flag of Cisleithanian Austria. Sometimes used as the unofficial national flag of Austria-Hungary.
	1869-1918	Flag of the Austria of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
	1869-1918	Unimplemented Naval Ensign
	1869–1918	Merchant Ensign of Austria-Hungary
	1934–1938	State Flag of the Federal State of Austria	This is the state flag of Austria adopted in 1934 and used until Austria was incorporated into Germany from 1938 to 1945. This flag was used during the regime of the Fatherland Front's one-party state.
	1935–1945	Austria under National Socialism	Flag of Nazi Germany.

Flag of subdivisions of Austria-Hungary[]

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  Kingdom of Bohemia

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  Duchy of Bukovina

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  Duchy of Carinthia

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  Duchy of Carniola

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  Kingdom of Dalmatia

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  Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 1772–1800; 1849–90

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  Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 1890–1918

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  Austrian Littoral

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  Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca

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  Imperial Free City of Trieste

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  Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  Margraviate of Moravia

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  Duchy of Salzburg

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  Austrian Silesia

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  Duchy of Styria

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  County of Tyrol

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  Kingdom of Hungary

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  Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

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  Corpus separatum (Fiume)

House flags of austrian freight companies[]

Flag	Date	Company	Description
	1903-1937	Cosulich Line
	1829-1993	Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft
	1833-1921	Österreichischer Lloyd

Yacht clubs of Austria[]

Flag	Club
	Segelclub Mattsee
	Union-Yacht-Club Attersee

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