[4] As a result, the flag became popular in the movement, which at the time received little media and social attention and was thus increasingly used by right-wing extremist and populist groups, which were met with criticism from various sides.

[11] He made two proposals for this: firstly, a tricolour in this color sequence, and secondly, a red Nordic Cross, outlined in gold, on a black background.

According to this report, Josef Wirmer had revised his design once again and added a thin black line between gold and red, which corresponds to the Balkenkreuz ("bar cross") of the German war flags.

[16] After World War II, the future national flag of the Federal Republic of Germany was discussed at the Constitutional Convention on Herrenchiemsee, which met between August 10 and 25, 1948.

Moreover, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) had already provided for the tricolour from 1919 as the flag of the GDR in its draft constitution of 22 November 1946.

In December 1948, the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research polled about 1,000 people in the three western zones about their preferences concerning a national flag.

[17] The future President of Germany, Theodor Heuss considered the cross flag to be "graphic arts" and a "artificiality".

This no longer had the cross offset to the hoist in Scandinavian style, but centered with horizontal arms of equal length.

The Young Union adopted as its symbol a badge with a color row like Neubecker's design: a red cross outlined in gold on a black background.

Its Saarland offshoot, the Democratic Party Saar (DPS), reversed the eagle's viewing direction to the (heraldic) right.

It is speculated whether the heraldically wrong direction of the FDP eagle is a legacy of former NSDAP functionaries, who were numerously present in the young party.

The Scandinavian cross would be a "commitment to Nordic cultural tradition" and the "response of resistance fighters to an un-Christian state.

[28] Writing in the newspaper Die Welt, Sven Felix Kellerhoff called the use of the flag by right-wing populists a "misjudgment" based "on fundamental historical ignorance."

[34] In his article for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Jan Schlürmann writes about the Wirmer flag that this is an "expropriation of a venerable and traditional symbol of Christian democracy.