Less = More With Gold News

As a result of the 1848 revolutions, the Federal Convention of the German Confederation, which had continued using the Imperial Eagle coat of arms in 1815, additionally adopted the tricolour ("from German time immemorial") with the intention to steady the nationalist unrest. As a response, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold was a corporation formed in 1924 representing the parties supporting parliamentary democracy, and for the remainder of the existence of the Weimar Republic, black-purple-gold represented the centrist events supporting parliamentary and black-white-crimson represented its nationalist and monarchist opposition. The colours in the end hark back to the tricolour adopted by the Urburschenschaft of…