![]() ![]() On 20 January 1950, the Federal Republic of Germany officially introduced the eagle as the German coat of arms. The swastika was the dominant symbol during this period. The National Socialist Party ( NSDAP) also used an eagle as its symbol: though in this case the eagle was facing to the left. A regulation issued in 1936 defined a swastika framed by a wreath of oak leaves, topped by an open-winged and right-facing eagle, as the sovereign symbol of the Reich. The National Socialists combined the symbol of the eagle with the swastika. Minor artistic modifications shall be permissible for any particular purpose, however." The specimens kept at the Reich Ministry of the Interior shall be definitive for the heraldic design of the imperial coat of arms. If the imperial eagle is portrayed without a frame, the same picture and the same colours shall be used as for the eagle in the imperial coat of arms, but the tips of the feathers shall be pointed outwards. "On the basis of a decision by the Imperial Government, I hereby proclaim that the imperial coat of arms shall show the single-headed black eagle on a golden background, with its head turned to the right, the wings open and feathers not spread, with beak, tongue and talons depicted in red. Likewise, in the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), the single-headed eagle was retained.Ī notice issued on 11 November 1919 concerning the imperial coat of arms and the imperial eagle stated: This imperial coat of arms showed a black, single-headed eagle with a red beak, tongue and talons, without a sceptre or imperial orb, with the Prussian eagle on its breastplate and, above its head, the crown of Charlemagne with two intersecting arches. In 1871, the Prussian King and German Kaiser Wilhelm I chose the single-headed German royal eagle for the imperial coat of arms of the German Empire (1871-1918). Even prior to this, the coin issued to mark the opening of the National Assembly on in the Paulskirche depicted the double-headed eagle. In July 1848, the National Assembly in Frankfurt also confirmed the double-headed eagle as the imperial emblem. In March 1848, the Diet of the German Confederation declared that the "old German imperial eagle" - the double-headed eagle - should form the coat of arms of the German Confederation. The German Confederation founded in 1815 did not initially have its own confederate symbol. The double-headed eagle symbolised the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806. The single-headed eagle, meanwhile, came to symbolise the German Royalty. An illustration in the Bamberg Evangeliar shows Emperor Otto III, holding an eagle-shaped sceptre in 1000 AD.ĭuring the 12th Century, the black eagle against a golden background was generally recognised as the emblem of the Holy Roman Empire.Īround 1200, during the reign of Frederick II, the double-headed first appeared and, from the 15th Century onwards, became the armorial of the Empire. Historical roots of the German heraldic eagleĪs early as 800 AD, Charlemagne adopted the single-headed eagle as the symbol of imperial power. ![]() It became part of the coats of arms of many states and noble houses and also has a long tradition in German history. The eagle is the emblem of the Federal Republic of Germany.Įven long ago, in the Orient and in Antiquity, amongst the Germanics and the Romans, the eagle was revered in particular as a symbol of the supreme deity, of vitality and of the sun. The federal coat of arms depicts the single-headed black eagle against a golden background it has its head turned to the right and wings open, with the feathers not spread its beak, tongue and talons are red. ![]()
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