Flag Of German Namibia

Flag construction sheet image by željko heimer 03 jul 2002.

Flag of german namibia. The blue red and green were the colors of the south west african people s organization swapo the group that liberated the country in 1990. Six designs were short listed. Every country has got a specific flag as their national symbol. German south west africa german deutsch südwestafrika a former german colony 1884 1919 that is now the nation of namibia in southwestern africa in 1883 franz adolf lüderitz a merchant from bremen germany established a trading post in southwest africa at angra pequena which he renamed lüderitzbucht he also acquired the adjacent coastal area which he named lüderitzland.

Around 32 percent of the population speaks it. The national symbols sub committee received 870 entries for the national flag. Design of namibia s national flag. This was reduced to three those of three namibians theo jankowski of rehoboth don stevenson of windhoek and ortrud clay of lüderitz these three designs were combined to form the namibia national flag adopted unanimously on 2 february 1990 by the constituent assembly.

It is bordered by angola to the north zambia to the northeast botswana to the east south africa to the southeast and south and the atlantic ocean to the west. Flags are national symbols. Since namibia was colonized by the germans they were able to instill in the natives of namibia their culture tradition and language. The namibia flag was officially adopted in march 1990.

Namibia country located on the southwestern coast of africa. It ranges from arid in the north to desert on the coast and in the east. I noticed that in the key word namibia you miss something very important even if you mentioned about the colonization of namibia and the colonial flags after the first world war it should be noted that namibia was a german colony from 1884 1915 after which the union of south africa took control of this area. Deutsch südwestafrika was a colony of the german empire from 1884 until 1915 though germany didn t officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 treaty of versailles.

Did the german colony from 1884. The flag of namibia features two triangles that are separated by a diagonal band. On march 9 1990 the flag was unveiled and the three designers were publicly acknowledged by the flag selection committees chairperson. In addition those same colors are representative of the democratic turnhill alliance a political party.

German south west africa german. Namibia s constituent assembly adopted the final design of the flag on february 2 1990. The specification we show particularly the position of the sun is correct according to the official diagram which accompanied the national flag of namibia general policy for use of the flag by the public issued by the ministry of information in 1990 this last also contains the full text of chapter one schedule 6 of the.