Heraldic flag#Standard

As standard ( from Old French estandart, altfränkisch location " site " ) is called a special form of flag in vexillology ( flags customer) and Heraldry ( heraldry ).

Use

Official standards are emblems of a head of state, a head of government, the peaks by other government agencies or the armed forces and diplomatic representatives of a state. They show the public, where this person is and thus may not be used by anyone. The most prominent example are the flags at state carriages ( known colloquially as car flags) that carry high representatives of a State, including the diplomatic corps at appropriate occasions. The flag is attached for this purpose to a so-called standard- holder on the fender of the vehicle.

Standard (left ) on the vehicle of the German Chancellor ( Car Registration: 0-2)

History

The script was originally in ancient times a gehisstes on a pole field characters, usually a vivid picture that marked the gathering place of a military unit in battle, and so became the insignia of this military unit. From the original Signa, mostly animal pictures, walked the Aquila, the eagle, as standard on the legions, while the vexillum were common for the maniple of Manipulus, for the cavalry as a banner. Of the latter, the (now ) Banner derived.

In the Holy Roman Empire then were referred in particular the royal Reichsbanner as an imperial standard, since about 1800, the name generally applies to the personal flag of a regent or other members of the ruling family.

In the early Middle Ages the heavy armies of knights, this field mark was made on the trolleys, the late Middle Ages, as well as faster cavalry came up, as well as an elongated, single or zweizipfelige rider flag, then as a square banner with Schwenkel, since the 17th century a mostly square and later triangular flag of mounted troops of all kinds in the early 20th century, they then went on to the successors of the cavalry, the mobile motorized troops.