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
  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
  1984 Standard for a Member of the Federal Government or the Federal President Used only on army occasions (out of use since 1984).

Personal standards of emperors edit

Flag Date Use Description
  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.

Austria under National Socialism edit

Flag Date Use Description
  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
  Standard for a General of the Austrian Armed Forces
  Commander pennant
  Officer pennant
  Ceremonial flag of the Gardebataillon (Guard of Honour)

Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces edit

Flag Date Use Description
  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
  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


Austro-Hungarian Navy edit

Flag Date Use Description
  1894–1918 Austro-Hungarian Naval Jack
  stipulated by law in 1915 but never used Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Groß-Admiral
  stipulated by law in 1915 but never used Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Admiral
  stipulated by law in 1915 but never used Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Vice-Admiral
  stipulated by law in 1915 but never used Rank flag of the Austro-Hungarian Rear Admiral
  1880–1894 Rank flag of the Habsburg Groß-Admiral
  1880–1894 Rank flag of the Habsburg Admiral
  1880–1894 Rank flag of the Habsburg Vice Admiral
  1880–1894 Rank flag of the Habsburg Rear Admiral
  1828–1853 Rank flag of the Habsburg Admiral
  1853–1880 Rank flag of the Habsburg Admiral

Police edit

Flag Date Use Description
  River police pennant.

State flags edit

Civil Flag State Flag State Year adopted Description
    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
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)
 
 
  1930–1938 Ostmärkische Sturmscharen

Ethnic groups flags edit

Flag Date Party Description
  1974–present Armenians in Austria Flag of the Austrian–Armenian Cultural Society
  ???–present Carinthian Slovenes
  ???–present Burgenland Croats Austrian flag with Coat of arms of Croatia
  Unofficial Yeniche people

Historical flags edit

Flag Date Use Description
  976–1136 Medieval banner of the Margetive 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

House flags of austrian freight companies edit

Flag Date Company Description
  1903–1937 Cosulich Line
  1829–1993 Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft
  1833–1921 Österreichischer Lloyd

Yacht clubs of Austria edit

Flag Club
  Segelclub Mattsee
  Union-Yacht-Club Attersee