DEUTSCHE DAMPFSCHIFFARTS-GESELLSCHAFT "KOSMOS".

The flag is vertically red and white with a central blue disc surrounded by six blue five-pointed stars in two partial arcs. Griffin places the upper and lower stars nearer the dividing line. Other evidence gives six-pointed stars, including the 1902 chart and a 1907 Rhakotis painting, while Lloyds 1912 has five points. The flag continued after the 1921 merger and Hapag’s 1926 takeover; any cosmological meaning remains an unanswered question.

Schneider’s FOTW variant has four-pointed stars with extensions, based on a Kludas placard. Rosanoski’s magnified inspection instead finds five-pointed stars on that placard, with their top points directed outwards and lower pairs parallel to the circle.

The funnel follows Kludas’s Uarda drawing. The accompanying flag has six-pointed stars and light sky blue; another volume uses duller mid-blue. The tiny ship-drawing flag is too small for reliable detail.

Kludas’s livery chart uses darker blue with six-pointed stars, all upright. Other illustrations vary in star angle and blue shade.

Flaggenbuch 1928 does show four-pointed stars, angled like Xs and placed closer to the circle.

Massary 1930 uses lighter blue and six small squares near the circle instead of stars.