The graphic designs of the party and state emblems were identical, except that the head of the state eagle was turned to the right, while the head of the party eagle was turned to the left. This announcement was repealed by the National Socialists in 1935, who decreed the NSDAP eagle should be the national symbol. Minor artistic modifications shall be permissible for any particular purpose, however." On 11 November 1919, Reich President Friedrich Ebert announced that, ‘On the basis of a decision of the Reich government, the Reich coat of arms shall feature the one-headed black eagle on a gold-yellow field, its head turned to the right, its wings open, but with closed feathering, and its beak, tongue and claws in red. In the Weimar Republic too, the one-headed eagle was a state symbol that aroused no controversy.
Instead, the Prussian tradition was drawn on in the shape of the one-headed eagle. When the German Empire was proclaimed in 1871, a decision was taken against the double-headed eagle and therefore against the associations it implied with the Holy Roman Empire and the Revolution of 1848/49. This was intended to emphasise the continuities with the state symbolism of the Holy Roman Empire. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt decided the double-headed eagle should be the emblem of the new Confederation. In the course of the 1848 Revolution, the National Assembly at St. Introduced in 1433, this remained the emblem of the Emperor and the state until the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1806. In contrast to the King’s one-headed eagle, the Emperor’s emblem was the double-headed eagle. It featured on the King’s coat of arms and almost all the Imperial princes bore the eagle on their escutcheons as a way of displaying their status as vassals of the King. Its origins can be traced back to the early years of the Holy Roman Empire. The symbol of German statehood with the richest traditions is the eagle.
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