<Tr> <Th> Proportion </Th> <Td> 3: 5 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Adopted </Th> <Td> 9 May 1956 </Td> </Tr> <P> The flag of Germany or German Flag (German: Flagge Deutschlands) is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold (German: Schwarz - Rot - Gold). The flag was first adopted as the national flag of modern Germany in 1919, during the short - lived Weimar Republic, until 1933 . </P> <P> Germany has two competing traditions of national colours, black - red - gold and black - white - red, which have played an important role in the modern history of Germany . The black - red - gold tricolour's first appearance anywhere in a German - ethnicity sovereign state within what today comprises Germany occurred in 1778, and achieved prominence during the 1848 Revolutions . </P>

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