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Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold
The flag that I'm sending to you is the pennant of the so called "Reichsbanner
Schwarz-Rot-Gold", a socialdemocratic based paramilitary fighting alliance
founded in the Weimar Republic on February 24 1924 in Magdeburg.
The flag I'm sending to you was used by the "Ortsgruppe Stockheim"
(Location Group Stockheim), but I actually don't know which Stockheim is
meant. Other local groups of the Reichsbanner supposably have used similar
flags, only with other Ortsgruppe-signs on it.
The Reichsbanner joined together with the labour union ADGB and other
organisations in the "Eiserne Front" (Iron Front) and was disorganised
in 1933 after the nazis came to power.
Pictures of the real Flag (actually, a reprint of it) could be found
at the homepage of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, where an exhibition
about the history of the Eiserne Front at the Paul-Löbe-Haus was reported
(but not anymore).
Another review about that exhibition and a better fotograph can be
found at kellinghusen-info.de,
an Internet-Newspaper.
The graphic was made by me and can freely be used on your site, any
other FOTW-Mirrors and other sites, I'd feel proud if you put it in the
FOTW database, if you'd like I'll also send you the original Photoshop
file.
Oliver Wolters, 30 Jun 2004
The description "socialdemocratic based" could be, unless familiar with
the circumstances, misleading as suggesting that this organization was
solely a socialdemocratic matter. This is the case insofar it were social
democrats who initiated the founding and the movement was dominated by
them (around 90%), but from the beginning members of the liberal DDP (Deutsche
Demokratische Partei) and the conservative Zentrum partei were
part of membership and leadership. Politically the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold
can be classed as center-left, for it were mainly right-wing social democrats
and left-wing liberals and conservatives who joined this organization.
Oliver Wolters was referring to these social democratic predominances,
as he wrote to me.
Martin Karner, 6 Jul 2004