Coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the emblem of the German state of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.

It exists in two versions. The blazon of the coat of arms great country is: square; Field 1 and 4: In a gold guardant, crowned gold black bull's head with open mouth, silver teeth, knocked- red tongue, in seven tips torn neck fur and silver horns; Field 2: In a silver -set, golden red reinforced grip; Field 3: Argent, a gold -reinforced red eagle with golden clover stalks to the Saxen.

Blazon of the small country arms: Split, forward in a Gold guardant, gold -winning black bull's head with open mouth, silver teeth, knocked- red tongue, torn into seven peaks neck fur and silver horns, back in silver one -set, gold -reinforced Red Cross.

The large four -part coat of arms is performed by the parliament and the country's top authorities, the little two-piece coat of arms of the lower state authorities.

Heraldic animals

The Mecklenburg princes initially led a gryphon in the seal since 1219 but the bull's head. Originally probably the head of a Ures ( aurochs ), he has since been almost constantly the Mecklenburg trunk crest that the dynastic divisions, most recently Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Strelitz ( until 1934 ), survived. The two bulls in today's coat of arms indicate these two entities.

The Griffin stands for Pomerania. Since 1880, the sign was gripping the arms of the Prussian province of Pomerania.

The red Brandenburg eagle on a silver background represents the parts of the Uckermark belonging to the land, and refers to the centuries- old connection between Pomerania and Brandenburg.

Grasping for Pomerania in the official coat of arms

Brandenburg eagle in the coat of arms

History

. Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania after the Second World War due to a command, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany from July 9, 1945 In 1947, the part of the military government pointed out that the command had only spoken of the " administrative region of Mecklenburg "; the addition of " Pomerania" is therefore inadmissible. In the same year the state legislature gave the country a constitution in which the Mecklenburg national colors (blue -yellow-red ), but not a coat of arms were determined.

Mecklenburg -Strelitz used in 1921 a coat of arms " on blue- yellow- red shields the Stargarder castle tower, the Mecklenburg buffalo head and Ratzeburg Cross" showed. Mecklenburg -Schwerin used from the same year, a coat of arms, which consisted " of a once divided and two -part main plate with applied heart shield " and showed the following in the six fields of the main shield:

The coat of arms was from 1934 Schwerin for all of Mecklenburg.

After Vorpommern was to come to the country, was looking for a new Coat of Arms. The grip shown came from the coat of arms of Rostock. Prime Minister William hump sat down personally for redesigning a. A first draft, he said Stralsund Mayor Otto Kortüm presented in 1945, showed " diagonally above the buffalo head with Mecklenburg colors, diagonally below the grip with blue white ". Kortüm rejected the design with the words " her with the cow's head up and down, we ... " from.

On September 30, 1948, the parliament discussed in Schwerin on a "Law on the Coat of arms of Mecklenburg ( ... )" ( printed matter No. 222 ). Cusp reported in advising on the efforts of the state government. Then multiply Mecklenburg artists were asked to designs that were discarded except for two. The plan submitted with the printed matter design not convinced hump but also. In it Schwerin coat of arms had been extended for a sign foot, in a red Pomeranian Griffin was worked into silver. The design was transferred to a committee; resubmission in Parliament no longer took place.

The small coat of arms that used the circles in their official seals, due to a notice of February 18, 1948 showed the Mecklenburg bull's head, the cities led their coat of arms. A great coat of arms was not awarded. 1952 Mecklenburg was divided into three districts.

After German reunification in 1990, the coat of arms described above were fixed.

Stamp of 1993 from the series of arms of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany