VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei until 1989 (East Germany)

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2:3 image by Victor Lomantsov, 9 Feb 2001

• VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei
• Jack
• Deutsche Oderschiffahrtsgesellschaft
• DOS pennant

• House Flags of East German Shipping Companies 1949-1989
• Deutsche Binnenreederei A.G.
• East Germany 1949-1990
• Germany

VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei

Red flag with a white anchor in center, bordered by a blue stripe on top, bottom and fly side [as on the DSR flag]. Source: Meyers Neues Lexikon, Leipzig, 1974.
Volker Moerbitz Keith, 9 Feb 2001

I made my drawings not from Meyers Neues Lexikon directly, but from my old notes taken about 10 years ago. I may have been wrong with proportions, ratio, small details (for example, cord of anchor) etc.
Victor Lomantsov, 9 Feb 2001

Victor Lomantsov's image is from Meyers Neues Lexikon which I consider somewhat more reliable than my fading memory. (...) If we use today's Weisse Flotte Potsdam flag as a reference for both the Deutsche Binnenreederei and the Weisse Flotte flag, the ratio would be 1:4:1. I would say we go with Meyers Neues Lexikon.
Volker Moerbitz Keith, 31 Oct 2001

Deutsche Binnenreederei AG was established in 1989 as the successor of VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei, a DDR shipping company. The flags of both are similar. Today the company has two main branches in Berlin and in Hamburg (Rödingsmarkt 26). The company became recently a member of Odratrans group. The information was given by Mr. H.Tominski. For further information click: http://www.binnenreederei.de
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Aug 2008

Jack

A red triangular pennant with a blue border on top and bottom and a white anchor in center.
Volker Moerbitz Keith, 9 Feb 2001

Deutsche Oderschiffahrtsgesellschaft

The following site (in German), dedicated to East German inland shipping, has the DOS represented: Founded in 1949, DOS or ‘Deutsche Oderschiffahrtsgesellschaft’ (i.e. German Oder Shipping Co. – named after the River Oder) operated barges identified by a white triangle, one point up, placed on a red background.  Vessels’ bows showed this emblem but it also appeared on a pennant.

A growing tendency towards centralization led to the merger of DOS with DSU or ‘Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagszentrale’ (i.e. German Shipping and
Transhipment Central) in 1957 to form ‘Deutsche Binnenreederei’ (i.e. German Inland Shipping Co.).
Jan Mertens, 8 Nov 2008

DOS pennant