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mirrors Lower Saxony was founded as Land Niedersachsen on 1st
November 1946 as a merger of the former Länder Braunschweig
[Brunswick], Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and Hannover [Hanover].
Due to the long tradition of own arms and flags in these former
territories, it was especially difficult to find a common flag
for the new Land Niedersachsen. [Some unofficial flags existed
1946-1951]. Although a red-white (or white-red) flag with the
arms would have been appropriate for the Land Niedersachsen, as
these are the colours of the arms (livery colours), this
solution was viewed as only representing Hanover and not the
other parts of Lower Saxony. A combination of the colours of was
also not feasible, so the final compromise was to use the German
national flag (black-red-gold) with t