As a result of the Yalta Conference, France was given
its own occupation zone in Germany. The border between the American and French
sectors was set along the highway Karlsruhe-Stuttgart-Ulm (nowadays the A8). Regions
south of the road became part of the French Zone.
France joined the Prussian Hohenzollern(-Sigmaringen)
with the southern part of Wurttemberg to form Wurttemberg-Hohenzollern and
created the state of South Baden from the southern part of the former Baden
Free State. The new capital from 1 December 1945 was Freiburg im Breisgau.
On 22 May 1947 Baden adopted a constitution which in
the preamble stated that South Baden considered itself the successor to the old
Baden, even though the larger part of its territory was only part of Baden for
the last 150 years. Also it became clear that the state referred to itself
consequently as Baden.
In 1949 the Baden parliament adopted the constitution
for the West German states and Baden became a Land of the Federal Republic of
Germany on 23 May 1949.
Capital: Freiburg
im Breisgau
Area: 9.646
km²
Population: 1.300.000
(1945)
Currency: Mark
(100 pfennig)
Link
The flag of Baden
(French zone) in Flags of the World.
Stamp catalogue
date: 4 October
1949
designer: Meyer and Pixa
printer: Druckerei F. Burda, Offenburg
perforated: 14:14¼
1 20 post horn, globe, olive branch,
text "75 / JAHRE / WELT / POST / VEREIN / 1874 / 1949"
brown-lake
(cat. Michel 56/SG FB56/Yvert 56)
2 30 post horn, globe, olive branch,
text "75 / JAHRE / WELT / POST / VEREIN / 1874 / 1949"
blue
(cat.
Michel 57/SG FB57/Yvert 57)
