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 |
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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 |
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-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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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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 |
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Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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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 |
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River police pennant. |
State flags[]
Civil Flag | State Flag | State | Year adopted | Description |
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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 |
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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 |
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???–present | Carinthian Slovenes | ||
???–present | Burgenland Croats | Austrian flag with Coat of arms of Croatia | |
Unofficial | Yeniche people |
Historical flags[]
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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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[]
Kingdom of Bohemia
Duchy of Bukovina
Duchy of Carinthia
Duchy of Carniola
Kingdom of Dalmatia
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 1772–1800; 1849–90
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 1890–1918
Austrian Littoral
Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca
Imperial Free City of Trieste
Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Margraviate of Moravia
Duchy of Salzburg
Austrian Silesia
Duchy of Styria
County of Tyrol
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Corpus separatum (Fiume)
House flags of austrian freight companies[]
Flag | Date | Company | Description |
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1903-1937 | Cosulich Line | ||
1829-1993 | Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft | ||
1833-1921 | Österreichischer Lloyd |
Yacht clubs of Austria[]
Flag | Club |
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Segelclub Mattsee | |
Union-Yacht-Club Attersee |
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