Austria
Coat of arms 1920/21
Coat of Arms
Austria · 08/1921
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Österreichische Post AG (Austrian Post) ↗
Historical & Philatelic Facts
Coat of Arms
The current coat of arms of the Republic of Austria has been in use in its first forms by the Republic of German-Austria since 1919. Between 1934 and the German annexation in 1938, the Federal State (Bundesstaat Österreich) used a different coat of arms, which consisted of a double-headed eagle (one-party corporate state led by the clerico-right-wing Fatherland Front, often labeled Austro-fascist). The establishment of the Second Republic in 1945 saw the return of the original arms, with broken chains added to symbolise Austria's liberation.