Talk:Finnish Jäger troops

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I wonder about the connection between Finland's state flag and the Jäger flag. Was the blue on white cross chosed in reverence of the Jägers, ...or what? :-)

http://www.mannerheim.fi/06_vsota/e_jaakar.htm says:

(The battallion was joined into the Finnish army in February 1918, and) was given their own flag in Libau. The blue and white flag, resembling that of the Finnish Guard, had a blue cross with the lion coat-of-arms in the middle, and Prussian-style eagle emblems in the corners.

-- Ruhrjung 13:20 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Not entirely sure of where I found the info, but I'd say that the Finnish flag came into being in the late 19th century, and thus predate the Jäger flag. Quite possibly the jäger flag was instead inspired by the design that was agreed upon by the independence movement.Scoo 14:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Like Ruhrjung's quote says, its modeled after the Finnish Guard (Suomen Kaarti) flag, not the national flag. See here: http://www.eskoff.net/skaartje.htm, http://www.mannerheim.fi/13_erity/s_jaakl.htm 213.243.182.3 13:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The flag in question is indeed older than the "jääkärilippu" (jäger flag) . Siniristilippu (blue cross flag) was used by finnish merchantile ships during the krim war 1854-1856. It was suggested as official flag for finnish grand dutchy at 1863 but the suggestion failed and it remained as half official flag of finnish ships. It passed as official flag in 1918 because the old finnish grand dutcy flag had dark red background and it was assosiated with the finnish civil war losing side and the bolsevik revolution.

The jäger flag gets its shape from older "suomenkaartinlippu" (finnish guard flag), its colors from the siniristilippu (blue cross flag) and it seal from the old "suomenruhtinaskunnan lippu" (grand dutchy of finlands flag).

Would post you the sources but it wouldnt help since they are in finnish.

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuva:Finnish_Guard_Battallion_Flag_Parade.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Cross_Flag

--- finnish panzerjäger

[edit] Jäger and Jägers

I don't know about finnish practice, but in german, Jäger is both the singular and plural form. There is no such word as Jägers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MartinKal (talk • contribs) 22:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC).