Flags of the Air Force 1933-1945 (Germany)

Deutsche Luftwaffe

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• Flag of the Minister for Air Travel and Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force 1935-1945 (Flagge des Reichsminister der Luftfahrt und Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe)
• Other Flags of the Ministry for Air Travel 1935-1945 (Under-Secretary for Air Travel and Air Quartermaster General)
• Standard of the Reichsmarschall 1940-1945 (Standarte des Reichsmarschalls)
• Flag of an Air Force Field Marshal 1941-1945 (Rangflagge eines Generalfeldmarschalls der Luftwaffe)
• Flag of the Air Force Chief of Staff 1937-1941 (Flagge des Chefs des Generalstabs der Luftwaffe)
• Flag of the Chief of an Air Fleet (Flagge des Chefs einer Luftflotte)
• Flag of Commanding Generals of the Air Force (Flagge der Kommandierenden Generale der Luftwaffe)
• Car Flag for Commanding Generals of the Air Force (Hoheitszeichen an Kraftfahrwagen für Kommandierenden Generale der Luftwaffe)
• Flag of Commanders of an Air Sector, of an Air Division and of Leaders of Naval Air Forces (Flagge des Kommandeurs eines Luftgaues, Kommandeurs eines Fliegerdivision, Führers der Seeluftstreitkräfte)
• Car Pennant for Air Force Generals (Hoheitszeichen am Kraftwagen für Generale der Luftwaffe)
• Car Pennant for Other Members of the Air Force (Hoheitszeichen am Kraftwagen für die übrigen Angehörigen der Luftwaffe)

See also:

• Flags of the Armed Forces 1933-1945 (Wehrmacht)
• Third Reich 1933-1945
• Germany

Rangflagge eines Generalfeldmarschalls der Luftwaffe

both by Jaume Ollé | 1:1

Obverse: A square light blue flag, at the center a Luftwaffe eagle, at each corner gold crossed batons surrounded by a gold wreath, the border gold decorated by gold swastikas. The reverse switches the position of wreathed batons and eagle (eagles at corners, batons at center). Introduced 1941. Illustrated in Flaggenbuch 1939, pl. VIIa (after 1941), Davis 1975, p. 142 (black and white) and [Roger James] Bender, The Luftwaffe, p. 287.

Norman Martin, January 1998

Flagge des Chefs des Generalstabs der Luftwaffe

1:1
by Jaume Ollé

Like the flag of the Under-Secretary for Air Travel except that the main field is diagonally quartered upper and lower black, left and right white, and the wreath is eliminated. In use 1937-1941. Illustrated in Flaggenbuch 1939, pl. VII, Davis 1975, p. 105 and [Roger James] Bender, The Luftwaffe, p. 289.

Norman Martin, January 1998

Flagge des Chefs einer Luftflotte

1:1
by Jaume Ollé

Flagge der Kommandierenden Generale der Luftwaffe

3:5
by Jaume Ollé

Hoheitszeichen an Kraftfahrwagen für Kommandierenden Generale der Luftwaffe

by Jaume Ollé

Flagge des Kommandeurs eines Luftgaues, Kommandeurs eines Fliegerdivision, Führers der Seeluftstreitkräfte

3:5
by Jaume Ollé

Hoheitszeichen am Kraftwagen für Generale der Luftwaffe

by Jaume Ollé
N.B.: The swastikas in the lower row are mistakenly reversed

A blue pennant with a gold flying (Luftwaffe-type) eagle carrying a swastika in its talons. On hoist, a thin gold band, on other edges a wide gold fringe, decorated with swastikas. From p. VIIa of Flaggenbuch 1939.

Norman Martin, March 1998

Hoheitszeichen am Kraftwagen für die übrigen Angehörigen der Luftwaffe

by Jaume Ollé

A blue pennant with a white flying (Luftwaffe-type) eagle carrying a swastika in its talons.

Norman Martin, March 1998