In the American zone plates were black on brown with a two letter code
for the region and digits separated by a hyphen.
| BM | Bremen |
| BY | Bayern |
| HE | Hessen |
| NB | Nord Baden |
| WB | Nord Württemberg |
Early 1946 there were registrations with the three letters
MGH (Military Government Hamburg) followed by upto six
digits.
Later that year plates emerged with a one or three letter code denoting the
origin (see below) and a registration number.
| AAC | Aachen |
| ARN | Arnsberg |
| AUR | Aurich |
| BRA | Braunschweig |
| DUS | Düsseldorf |
| H | Hamburg |
| HAN | Hannover |
| HIL | Hildesheim |
| KOL | Köln |
| LIP | Lippe |
| LUN | Lüneburg |
| MIN | Minden |
| MUN | Münster |
| OLD | Oldenburg |
| OSN | Osnabrück |
| S | Schleswig-Holstein |
| STA | Stade |
Later in 1946 emerged plates in black on blue with a two letter code
for the region and upto six digits with a separation by a hyphen.
| HA | Niedersachsen |
| HG | Hamburg |
| NR | Nord-Rhein |
| SH | Schleswig-Holstein |
| WF | Westfalen |
In the French zone registrations were similar to those above, but
black on red.
| BD | Süd Baden |
| PF | Hessen-Pfalz |
| RL | Rheinland |
| SA | Saarland |
| WT | Süd Württemberg und Hohenzollern |
| X | Lindau (Bayern) |
The Soviet zone used registrations consisting of a two letter code
for the origin, a single digit and two groups of two digits, all
separated by hyphens.
| BP | Brandenburg Provinz |
| GB | Groß Berlin |
| KB | Kommandatur Berlin (West Berlin) |
| MF | Mecklenburg Freistaat |
| SF | Sachsen Freistaat |
| SP | Sachsen Provinz |
| TF | Thüringen Freistaat |
In 1948 the four zones instignated a common form of registration.
From that time the registration consisted of two letters
(mostly vertically aligned) depicting the origin (see table below),
a two or three digit code for the office, a dash (with a
seal above it that is not shown) and a serial number of upto four
digits.
The exception was West Berlin that had plates in black on white.
In later years single letter codes did emerge (also shown in the
table below) to replace a few double letter codes.
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