Editing Weimar Republic (section)

=== Flag and coat of arms ===
{{Main|Flag of Germany#Weimar Republic (1918–1933)|Coat of arms of Germany#Weimar Republic}}
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich (Weimarer Republik).svg|thumb|First coat of arms of the Weimar Republic (1919–1928)]]
The black-red-gold tricolour of the [[1848 German Revolution|1848 German revolutions]] was named as the national flag in the [[Weimar Constitution|Weimar Constitution of 1919]].<ref name="documentArchiv.de-1919">{{cite web |url=http://www.documentarchiv.de/wr/wrv.html |title=Constitution of the Weimar Republic |work=documentArchiv.de |language=de |date=11 August 1919 |access-date=24 February 2008 |at=article 3 |archive-date=27 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127054556/http://www.documentarchiv.de/wr/wrv.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was abolished after the entry into force of the [[Enabling Act of 1933]] when the Nazi Party gained total power, in favour of two co-official national flags: the old [[Flag of the German Empire|black-white-red imperial tricolour]] and the [[Flag of Nazi Germany|flag of the Nazi Party]]. From 1935, the Nazi flag with the symbol offset became the sole national flag of the Third Reich, and after World War II, both the [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] and the [[German Democratic Republic]] readopted the black-red-gold flag. The coat of arms was initially based on the ''[[Reichsadler]]'' ("imperial eagle") introduced by the [[Paulskirche Constitution]] of 1849, and announced in November 1919. In 1928, a new design by Karl-Tobias Schwab was adopted as national coat of arms, which was used until being replaced by the [[Coat of arms of Nazi Germany|Nazi ''Reichsadler'']] in 1935, and readopted by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1950.