Forms of address

Flag displays

• General information
  • Legal basis for flag displays
  • Types of flags
  • Informations to flag displays
• Federal flags
  • The federal flag
  • The flag of the federal institutions
  • The standard of the Federal President
  • The federal colours
• Federal flag display days
  • Regularly recurring general flag display days
  • Special flag display directives
• Flag rules of the Länder
• Types of flag displays
• Special situations
  • Flag of Unity
  • Ambassador accreditation ceremonies
  • Flag displays at diplomatic missions
  • Flags bearing logos
  • State visits
  • Car flags
  • United Nations flag
  • Bundeswehr flag displays
    • Flag displays of the German Navy
  • Federal Police flag displays
  • Ships of the Federal Transport Administration
  • Using the federal institutions flag to cover a casket

Days of remembrance and public holidays

• General information
• 27 January
• 17 June
• 20 June
• 20 July
• 3 October
• Day of National Mourning

Ranks & titles

• Order of precedence
• Official order
  • List of federal ministers
  • Reciprocal representation by members of the Federal Government
  • List of federal ministers by seniority
  • List of federal ministries
  • List of heads of state governments by seniority
  • List of speakers of the state parliaments by seniority

State symbols

• General information
• Federal flag
• Federal coat of arms
• National anthem
• The New Guardhouse

State occasions

• State occasions and state ceremonies
• Official mourning ceremonies
  • State funerals and official mourning ceremonies
  • Official mourning through the ages

Service

• Contact
• Getting to the Ministry
• Mediathek