This page contains information about the official flag days in Germany.
The flag days for official buildings in Germany are listed in many regulations. We've listed them for you on this site.
Federal flag days
- January 27th - Memorial day for the victims of the Nazism - half-mast
- May 1st - Labor Day
- May 5th - Day of Europe
- May 23rd - Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Constitution
- June 17th - Anniversary of June 17th, 1953
- July 20th - Anniversary of July 20th, 1944
- October 3rd - Day of German Unity
- 2nd Sunday before 1st Advent - Remembrance Day - half-mast
- Election Day for the Bundestag (German parliament)
- Election Day for the European parliament
The flag was not actually used until 1918 when the German National Assembly of the democratic Weimar Republic adopted it officially. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he abolished the tricolor flag.
In 1950, the flag was reintroduced by the German Parliament as the official symbol for the Federal Republic of Germany and is still used nowadays.
The former DDR (East Germany) used almost the same design as national flag, but showed the East German emblem consisting of a hammer, a sickle and a garland of corn in the middle.