The state coat of arms of the German Democratic Republic was legally determined 1955. It shows a hammer - symbol of the workers - on a red circular area in golden colour, occupied with a goldfarbenen, opened circle as symbol of intelligence and surrounds by a also golden ear ring as embodiment of the peasantry. A black-red-golden tape umwindet the wreath/ring and expresses the solidarity of the social Krafte. In the case of its establishment in the year 1949 the German Democratic Republic took up the progressive traditions of the past and gave themselves a flag in the colours black, red and gold in three equivalent, horizontal strips. The colours go back on the uniforms of the Luetzow free corps in the time of the antinapoleonischen war of liberation 1813/14, on which flag of the progressive Burschenschaften and the flags, under which the revolutionary fighters 1848/49 their life against reaction, for which used liberty. Thus one interpreted the colours at that time: The dark night of the reaction, red is black is the blood, which the fighters for the liberty sacrificed, and gold the sun of the liberty, whose stairway expects the people. Ferdinand free ligrath wrote over the symbolism of the colours: the powder is black, red is the blood and golden flickers the flame. " 1959 were inserted the state coat of arms into the center of the flag.
off: Hans Ulrich duke/George Hannes, dictionary of flags and coat of arms, Leipzig 1990

30. September 1959: Modification of the state flag
The people chamber passes the law, after which the emblem Arbeiter-und becomes farmer power, hammer and circle in the ear ring, constituent of the black-red-golden flag. This flag modification is - ten years after establishment of the GDR - which strengthening the GDR as socialist national state symbolizes and which claim to sole representation work against the FRG.
off: B. Polling man, data for the history of the German Democratic Republic, Duesseldorf, 1984

31. May 1990:
Upon the request of the DSU the people chamber decides that the GDR state coat of arms is to be removed within one week in and at public buildings.
off: Ilse Spittmann/Gisela Helwig (Hrsg.), edition Germany file, chronicle of the events in the GDR, Cologne, 4. Edition 1990

The national anthem of the German Democratic Republic

Auferstanden from ruins
and the future turned,
let us you for the good one serve,
Germany unite native country.
Old NOT applies to force it,
and we force it united,
because [ ] we must will nevertheless succeed,
that the sun shines beautiful like never over Germany.

Luck and peace granted
Germany, unserm native country.
All world longs itself for peace,
your hand is enough to the peoples.
If we like brothers us one,
we strike the people enemy.
Let the light of the peace seem,
that never a nut/mother more their son weeps.

Let us plow! Let us build,
learns and creates like never before,
and the own strength trusting
freely a sex climbs.
German youth: best striving
uns'res people in you unites,
become you of Germany new life,
and the sun like never over Germany shines beautiful.

Text: Johannes R. Becher (1891-1958), " Germany song "
Music: Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)

J.R. Cup was a expressionistischer poet and a late culture Minister of the GDR.

On 5 November 1949 the song - selected from a number of other spreading units - was explained by the Council of Ministers of the GDR as the national anthem. On 6 November the Hymne was uraufgefuehrt on the occasion of a commemorative event by the citizen of Berlin broadcast orchestra under Helmut Koch. Bad tongues state, for its composition the melody of the song " Good bye, Johnny " would have stolen from Eisler from Peter Kreuder. The text was of the culture Minister at that time of the GDR cup. The text line " Germany united native country " was at the beginning of the seventies from view of the government no longer up-to-date. The Hymne was not forbidden, but she was not to no more sung easily, inconceivablily for one in the condition embodied Hymne. With resolution of the people chamber of the GDR from 3 January 1990 the original text could be sung again. Their Auferstehung ended on 3 October 1990, it by the Hymne of the Federal Republic was however already handled. Thus it exisitert only as a beautiful song
from the D-INSTRUCTION BOOK to morning-red against, Hymnen, edition Barbarossa, 1995

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