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Heidelberg University (U.S.)

Tiffin, Ohio

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The flag appears to be a variation on the German national flag (makes sense as Heidelberg is a city in Germany), being a horizontal tricolor of red-orange-black.
Randy Young 21 February 2020

Heidelberg University is represented by the colors of orange, black and red. In the early days there were no official colors, but peacock blue and old gold appeared on the official diplomas in the 1880s. The faculty voted to change the colors to black, orange and red, the reformation colors. On October 18, 1893, the executive committee of Heidelberg made the action official.6738

Rev. Rufus W. Miller, D.D. suggested the colors of orange, black and red around the time of the organization of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, about 1888 when the German and Dutch were reformed together in the organization. Miller sought colors that would be good symbols of both churches and took the black and red from the German flag for the German reformed and the orange for the Dutch reformed. Five years later Heidelberg adopted them as its colors.

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