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Austrohungaric Empire

Before 1867
1867 Compromise flag
Merchan Naval flag
1913 flag

Before 1867

by giuseppe bottasini 21-JUN-1996
Austria-Hungary is often reffered to as black-yellow monarchy. I think the black-yellow flag was used for the whole, at least til 1867.
zeljko heimer 1-dec-1995

1867 Compromise flag

BY giuseppe bottasini 21-JUN-1996
This was the joint Austro-Hungarian flag brought in sometime after the 1867 "Ausgleich" or "Compromise", which gave Hungary home rule. The version I'm familaiar with was the joint naval ensign which has crowned shields for Austria (red-white-red) and Hungary (traditional Hungarian arms) on the white stripe(s) Presumably at some point the black-over-yellow of "Cisleithania" was dropped for the red-white-red once more.
roy stilling 1-DEC-1995

Merchant Naval flag

The 1911 issue of Encyclopaedia Britannica give the Austro-Hungarian Merchant Naval flag as being horizontal red-white-red towards the hoist and red-white-green towards the fly, each half containing a set of arms: gules a fess argent on the Austrian half, and party per pale fessy of eight gules and argent, and gules, a Lorraine cross argent on a mount vert. Bith shields were fimbriated in yellow and surmounted by crowns.
james dignan 4-DEC-1995

1913 flag

Austria-Hungary 1913: The state ensign is a red white red horizontal tricolor with the state shield on the white stripe near the hoist, fimbrated yellow, with an imperial crown. The mercantile ensign is as described earlier. Of course there was no Austria-Hungary in WW II, and Austria's flag was as it is today.
nathan augustine 5-DEC-1995