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
[edit]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 flag, war flag 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
[edit]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). |
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. |
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
[edit]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) |
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 |
Naval flags
[edit]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 |
Police
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | River police pennant. |
State flags
[edit]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
[edit]Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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Current | |||
![]() | 2022–present | Austrian People's Party | |
![]() | 1999–present | Freedom Party of Austria | |
![]() | 2012–present | The Greens – The Green Alternative | |
![]() | 2022–present | NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum | |
![]() | 2004–present | Black-Yellow Alliance | Black-Yellow flag, historical flag of the Habsburg Monarchy |
![]() | 2000s–present | Identitäre Bewegung Österreich | |
![]() | 1945–present | Social Democratic Party of Austria | White Three Arrows on a red background |
Former | |||
![]() | 1933–1938 | Fatherland Front (Austria) | |
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![]() | 1930–1938 | Ostmärkische Sturmscharen |
Ethnic groups flags
[edit]Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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![]() | 1974–present | Armenians in Austria | Flag of the Austrian–Armenian Cultural Society |
![]() | Unknown date | Carinthian Slovenes | |
![]() | Unknown date | Burgenland Croats | Austrian flag with Coat of arms of Croatia |
![]() | Unofficial | Yeniche people |
Historical flags
[edit]Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 976–1136 | Medieval banner of the Margravate of Austria (House of Babenberg) | |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 1749–1786 | Merchant flag of the Archduchy of Austria | |
![]() | 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 | 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. |
![]() | 1938–1945 | Flag of the German Reich/Greater German Reich |
Flag of subdivisions of Austria-Hungary
[edit]- Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 1772–1800; 1849–90
- Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 1890–1918
House flags of austrian freight companies
[edit]Flag | Date | Company | Description |
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![]() | 1903–1937 | Cosulich Line | |
![]() | 1829–1993 | Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft | |
![]() | 1833–1921 | Österreichischer Lloyd |
Yacht clubs of Austria
[edit]Flag | Club |
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![]() | Segelclub Mattsee |
![]() | Union-Yacht-Club Attersee |
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