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Flagchange in more than 100 years shipping on the Elbe river by Heinrich Fischbach.
The Saxon-Bohemian Steamnavigation Company was founded in 1867. The first flag contained the green/white colors of Saxony, as well as the colors black/yellow of the city of Dresden. In 1923 the Company became Limited the colors were changed. The colors green/white were retained, and a blue anchor was added.
In 1945 the Soviet Military Occupation took over the company. A white
pennant bordered red contained a red star. Occasionally a red pennant with
a white star is said to have flown. From 1950 till 1956 the flag of the
German Shipping and Overhaul company was hoisted. In 1956 the company received
a new name: VEB Passenger Shipping Co. "White Fleet". After the reunification
of Germany in 1990 the name became "White Fleet Dresden. The green/white
colors returned as the city-colors. The anchor-design was modernized, and
its white color contrasted with the black/yellow background. In 1993 the
company was sold to Cosmos München, and is now named Saxon Steamnavigation
Co. Conti Elbe-navigation Co. A new flag was introduced: on the green/white
stripes in top a white half-circle is projected with a blue stylized wave.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
![[Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, 1867]](../images/d/de~sbdg.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, 1867 - horizontal
four stripes of white and green; in canton per fly diagonal black over
yellow; in center "black "SBDG". (That is the Saxon-Bohemian Steamshipping
Company).
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
![[Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, 1867#2]](../images/d/de~sbdg0.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
Same company, with the canton twice as high.
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
![[Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, 1867#3]](../images/d/de~sbdg1.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
Same company, a burgee white over green, with canton as above
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
![[Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, 1923]](../images/d/de~sbdg2.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrts A.G., 1923 - green flag,
white diamond, blue standing anchor.
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
![[Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, 1923#2]](../images/d/de~sbdg3.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
Same company, flag with a white border.
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Feb 2006
![[Sowjetische Verwaltung 1945]](../images/d/de~sv45.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
Sowjetische Verwaltung 1945 - white burgee bordered red, red
5-pointed star. (That is: Soviet occupation)
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
![[Staatliche Oder-Schiffahrts AG]](../images/d/de~soag.gif)
image sent by Jan Mertens, 6 Dec 2008
SOAG or ‘Staatliche Oder-Schiffahrts AG’ (i.e. State-Owned Oder Shipping Co.) was a shipping company organized under Soviet control in occupied (East) Germany, 1945, nicknamed the “Red Fleet” after the vessel registry pass.
The pennant is already on FOTW-ws (see above), where ‘Sowjetische Verwaltung’ stands for ‘Soviet Administration’. The company name proper is found on a page we already know (see about one quarter of page). Also illustrated is a rectangular house flag, white, bordered red on three sides (except the hoist) and bearing a red five-pointed star in the centre.
Founded in 1946, SOAG was taken over by DSU (Deutsche Schifffahrts-
und Umschlagszentrale i.e. German Shipping and Transhipment Central) in
1952.
Jan Mertens, 6 Dec 2008
![[Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagsbetrieb, 1950-56]](../images/d/de~dsu.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagsbetrieb, 1950-56 - red flag,
bordered blue at top, bottom and fly; white "DSU". (That is: German Shipping
and Transhipment Company)
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
![[Neue Deutsch-Böhmische Elbeschiffahrt]](../images/d/de~ndbe.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 16 Apr 2009
Found in ‘Flaggen auf dem Rhein’ (ed. 1952), the white and blue house
flag of ‘Neue Deutsch-Böhmische Elbeschiffahrt AG’ (i.e. New German-Bohemian
Elbe Shipping Co.). “Bohemian” refers, of course, to present Czechia; the
firm was established at Hamburg.
White field horizontally edged blue (quite narrow edges,in fact) and
bearing a large blue Maltese cross.
Founded at Dresden (1907) as a shipping, forwarding, and shipbuilding
company. From 1918 on cooperated with, and in 1921 took over, Deutsch-Österreichische
Dampfschiffahrt AG (i.e. German-Austrian Steam Shipping Co.)
Merger with the Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrt-Gesellschaft (i.e.
Saxonian-Bohemian Steam Shipping Co.), 1923. The firm moved to Hamburg
in 1951 after having sustained heavy losses during WWII and fleeing nationalization
(DSU) in East Germany.
The company was still active in 1967. Sources for above information:
this
link and this
one.
Jan Mertens, 1 Apr 2009
![[Weisse Flotte, 1956]](../images/d/de~wf56.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt "Weisse Flotte", 1956 - red flag bordered
blue at top, bottom and fly; blue outlined diamond, white standing anchor.
(That is: passenger-shipping "White Fleet")
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
![[Weisse Flotte, 1990]](../images/d/de~wf90.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
"Weisse Flotte", Dresden, 1990 - horizontal white over green
flag; in center a block consisting of 8 horizontal stripes alternating
black over yellow; a white standing anchor.
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
![[Sächsische Dampfschiffahrt 1993]](../images/d/de~sdce.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
Sächsische Dampfschiffahrts G.m.b.H., Conti Elbschiffahrts-KG, 1993
- white flag, from top to c. 1/3 flagheight 9 narrow horizontal gren stripes;
in center white oval, charged with blue - duuh - what?
Source: "Flaggenkurier Nr. 4, 1996", sent by Jens Pattke.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Feb 2006
This is the blue silouette of the rocks at Elbe Sandstone Mountains
in the Saxon Switzerland (German: Sächische Schweiz).
(more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Sandstone_Mountains ).
Jens Pattke, 28 Feb 2006