Frank Towet writes (translated):
"The allotment garden flag colours were first determined at the second national allotment gardeners' gathering at Bremen on 14 Aug 1921. Dr. Pauly, an official of the Prussian Welfare Ministry,
suggested (...) green for hope, yellow for joy of living and white for impartiality." Special thanks to Bernhard Rieger, who found this information after intensive research.
Source: Museumsführer des Deutschen Kleingärtnermuseum (brochure of the German Allotment Garden Museum).
Homepage of this museum, at Leipzig (English summary):here Jan Mertens, 4 Jan 2009
Flag of RKD
Flag with symbol of above association, Reichsverband der Kleingartenvereine Deutschlands, p. 7/74 of of obsolete pdf file: http://www.lsk-kleingarten.de/cm/uploads/media/LSK_Kapitel_2.pdf, banners on p. 22/74 and 23/74.
Based on message from 15 Sep 2008 flag with symbol of above association, Reichsverband der Kleingartenvereine Deutschlands, p. 7/74 of above pdf file: Founded in 1921, this "National Federation of the Allotment Garden Clubs of Germany" flew a flag horizontally divided green-white-yellow, bearing a large yellow disk in the centre, outlined black, with a male silhouette (gardener) holding a spade and a seedling of a tree between white initials R / V / K / D, all white.
The federation was put on a Nazi footing in 1933 and refounded after WW2 (1949) as "Verband deutscher Kleingärtner" (Federation of German Allotment Gardeners).
Jan Mertens, 4 Jan 2009
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