Germany Flag Without Shield

A bit of History 

  
The current flag of Germany is a tricolor, it consists of three equal horizontal stripes of black, red and gold was adopted on May 23, 1949 by the Federal Republic of Germany. 
  
This flag, designed in the early nineteenth century, had been previously used in time of the Germanic Confederation (1848-1866) and the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). After the Second World War, the flag was adopted by both the German Democratic Republic and West Germany, remain identical to 1959, the year in the Democratic Republic of the coat state was added. 

The flag of Germany has not always been black, red and gold. After the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, the north of the North German Confederation adopted a tricolor black, white and red. This flag later became the ensign of the German Empire formed after German unification in 1871 and was used until 1918. The black, white and red were reintroduced after the establishment of Nazi Germany in 1933.