German Tsingtao Flag
Posted: May 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments »Coming across the old flags of Weihaiwei yesterday I also came across the flag that used fly over Tsingtao (Qingdao). A bit of a different story here. The Kiautschou territorywas leader in 1898 to Germany for 99 years – Tsingtao being the main town (left: German troops on parade in Tsingtao). It was popular with the Germans, nice climate, popular holiday destination for foreigners in the China treaty ports and also a base for the German fleet that looked after the Kaiser’s rather disparate and cobbled together Pacific empire that they kept until World War One – people forget now German New Guinea, the German Solomon Islands, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands and German Samoa). Anyway, in 1918 Tsingtao was transferred to Japan.
The Germans never actually designed a specific flag for Tsingtao but they did use the so-called flag of the German colonies – horizontal black-white-red with the Imperial eagle without crown in the middle of the white stripe.
Any idea why the pictures are not viewable in China? Would definitely be interested to see these pictures.
Marcus
Sorry – the blog was originally on blogspot but then the Chinese banned that so had to transfer over to this URL – but due to problems here a lot of images didn’t transfer and I’ve had to readd, which is a pain! Anwyay, here’s the flag and hopefully you can see it now.