Flags of Austria-Hungary
During its existence,
k.u.k.
War Fleet continued to carry the Austrian ensign it had used since 1786 and the regiments of the k.u.k. Army carried the double-eagle banners they had used before 1867, as they had a long history in many cases. New ensigns created in 1915 were not implemented due to the ongoing war. At state functions, the Austrian black-yellow and the Hungarian red-white-green tricolor were used.
Austria was represented by the black-yellow flag. The Hungarian half of the state, on the other hand, legally had no flag of its own.embassies flew the two national flags alongside the imperial standard.[4]
National and state flags
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Habsburg Monarchy (including Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire), also used to represent Cisleithania
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Flag of theTransleithania -
Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary (coat of arms variant without supporters) -
Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary (civil flag)
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Flag of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia -
![Unofficial,[a] but common flag of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Flag_of_the_Triune_Kingdom_of_Croatia%2C_Slavonia_and_Dalmatia.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Triune_Kingdom_of_Croatia%2C_Slavonia_and_Dalmatia.svg.png)
Unofficial,[a] but common flag of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia -
Flag of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (civil flag)
![Unofficial,[a] but common flag of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia](/File:Flag_of_the_Triune_Kingdom_of_Croatia,_Slavonia_and_Dalmatia.svg)
Imperial and military standards
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![Emperor's imperial standard (until 1915)[5]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Imperial_Standard_of_Austria-Hungary_%28Before_1915%29.svg/120px-Imperial_Standard_of_Austria-Hungary_%28Before_1915%29.svg.png)
Emperor's imperial standard (until 1915)[5] -
![Empress's imperial standard (until 1915)[5]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Austro-Hungarian_Empress_Standard_%28Before_1915%29.svg/120px-Austro-Hungarian_Empress_Standard_%28Before_1915%29.svg.png)
Empress's imperial standard (until 1915)[5] -
![Emperor's and Empress's imperial standard (1915–1918)[5]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Imperial_Standard_of_the_Emperor_of_Austria_%281915%E2%80%931918%29.svg/120px-Imperial_Standard_of_the_Emperor_of_Austria_%281915%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png)
Emperor's and Empress's imperial standard
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Archduke's and Archduchess's standard (1915-1918) -
![Military standard (example of many variants)[6]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg/120px-Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg.png)
![Emperor's imperial standard (until 1915)[5]](/File:Imperial_Standard_of_Austria-Hungary_(Before_1915).svg)
![Empress's imperial standard (until 1915)[5]](/File:Austro-Hungarian_Empress_Standard_(Before_1915).svg)
![Emperor's and Empress's imperial standard (1915–1918)[5]](/File:Imperial_Standard_of_the_Emperor_of_Austria_(1915%E2%80%931918).svg)
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![Military standard (example of many variants)[6]](/File:Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg)
Ensigns
Civil ensigns
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![Civil ensign 1786–1869[7]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Austria-Hungary-flag-1869-1914-naval-1786-1869-merchant.svg/120px-Austria-Hungary-flag-1869-1914-naval-1786-1869-merchant.svg.png)
Civil ensign 1786–1869[7] -
![Civil ensign 1869–1918,[8] erroneously seen as the "national flag" of Austria-Hungary in popular culture.[9][better source needed]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Ensign_of_Austro-Hungarian_civil_fleet_%281869-1918%29.svg/120px-Ensign_of_Austro-Hungarian_civil_fleet_%281869-1918%29.svg.png)
Civil ensign 1869–1918,better source needed] -
Unofficial Hungarian civil ensign used on Transleithania inland waters[7]
![Civil ensign 1786–1869[7]](/File:Austria-Hungary-flag-1869-1914-naval-1786-1869-merchant.svg)
![Civil ensign 1869–1918,[8] erroneously seen as the "national flag" of Austria-Hungary in popular culture.[9][better source needed]](/File:Ensign_of_Austro-Hungarian_civil_fleet_(1869-1918).svg)
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![Naval ensign 1786–1915 (de facto until 1918)[7]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Naval_Ensign_of_Austria-Hungary_%281894%E2%80%931915%29.svg/120px-Naval_Ensign_of_Austria-Hungary_%281894%E2%80%931915%29.svg.png)
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![Naval ensign 1915–1918 (not implemented)[10]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Naval_Ensign_of_Austria-Hungary_%281915%29.svg/120px-Naval_Ensign_of_Austria-Hungary_%281915%29.svg.png)
Naval ensign 1915–1918
(not implemented)[10]
![Naval ensign 1786–1915 (de facto until 1918)[7]](/File:Naval_Ensign_of_Austria-Hungary_(1894%E2%80%931915).svg)
![Naval ensign 1915–1918 (not implemented)[10]](/File:Naval_Ensign_of_Austria-Hungary_(1915).svg)
Regional flags
Additionally, several flags were in use within the local territories of Austria-Hungary.
 Cisleithania
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Archduchy of Austria (Lower Austria) |
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Archduchy of Austria (Upper Austria) |
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Kingdom of Bohemia | 
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Kingdom of Dalmatia | 
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County of Tyrol |
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Duchy of Bukovina | 
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Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia
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Duchy of Carinthia | 
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Duchy of Carniola | 
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Duchy of Salzburg | 
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Duchy of Styria | 
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Margraviate of Moravia | 
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Austrian Littoral, including:
Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca |
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Vorarlberg | 
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 Transleithania
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Principality of Transylvania | 
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Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar | 
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Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia | 
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Kingdom of Croatia | 
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Kingdom of Slavonia | 
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City of Fiume and its District
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| Condominium
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Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Examples of using flags in the era
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Visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I in Zagreb, red-white-blue (Croatian) flags, 1895 -
Civil ensign and Austrian pennants on a French illustration advertising the Hungarian pavilion during Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1900 -
EmperorFranz Joseph I in Merano(black-yellow flag), 1900 -
Bohinj tunnel opening ceremony (two-color flags), 1906 -
Military base of Austro-Hungarian Army (two-color flag), 1910 -
SS Carniola - Austro-Hungarian civilian steamship with civil ensign, 1912 -
Military parade in Vienna (two-color flags), 1913 -
Imperial Standard on the car of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 1914 -
Soldiers of Infanterieregiment Nr. 17 with two-color flag, 1914 -
Austro-Hungarian propaganda poster encouraging to buy war bonds -
World War I-era propaganda postcards depicting the flags of the Central Powers. The Austro-Hungarian flag shown as black-yellow -
A propaganda postcard commemorating the release of the Przemyśl fortress. Austria-Hungary represented by the black-yellow and red-white-green flags, 1915 -
Another Central Powers propaganda, with Austria-Hungary being represented by a mix of both Habsburg and Hungarian flags -
Copy of the naval ensign taken by the Italian army from the submarine U12 at the Piave river mouths on 5 August 1915 (exposed in Museo Storico Navale, Venice). -
Emperor Charles I visiting Pergine (two- and three-color flags), 1917 -
Vienna Praterstrasse, 1917 -
Emperor Charles I visiting troops in Ozhydiv (two- and three-color flags), 1917 -
Emperor Charles I in front of the Hungarian flag, 1917 -
Emperor Charles I visiting one of the villages in South Tyrol (two-color flag), 1917 -
SMS Gäa - Austro-Hungarian torpedo carrier with naval ensign, World War I period
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See also
References
- ^ The official version prescribed the Crown of St. Stephen, the same as on the Hungarian flag, to be used. See Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia: Symbols
- ^ a b "Habsburg | H-Net". www.h-net.org. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012.
- ^ Austria. Reichsrat. Abgeordnetenhaus (1903). Stenographische protokolle über die sitzungen ...: 1. (eröffnungs-) bis [485.] sitzung ... Aus der K.-k. Hof -und staatsdruckerei. p. 20714.:
Der § 63 spricht auch von einer kroatisch-slavonisch-dalmatinischen vereinigten Fahne auf Reichstagsgebäude. Diese Fahne war bis anno domini 1902 allen Dimensionen nach gleich ungarische Fahne.
- ^ a b Pliverić, Josip (1907). Spomenica o državnopravnih pitanjih hrvatsko-ugarskih. Zagreb: Hartman (Stjepan Kugli)., p. 50
- ^ Rudolf Agstner, Austria(-Hungary) and Its Consulates in the United States of America since 1820 (LIT Verlag, 2012), p. 45.
- ^ a b c "Imperial Standard of Austria, Flags of the World".
- ^ "Austro-Hungarian Empire: Military Flags".
- ^ a b c The Flags & Arms of the Modern Era
- ^ Album of standards, flags and pennants of the Russian Empire and foreign states. 1890. p. 39.
- ^ When Wikipedia has the Flag Wrong. Retrieved 2024-04-01 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ The Flags & Arms of the Modern Era