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The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out of the small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy), which was mainly for coast defence. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expanded the navy. The key leader was Admiral Alfred von ...
The list of ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) of Germany, covering the period from 1871, the creation of the German Empire, through to the end of the Empire in 1918.
This is the order of battle of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. Commanders and locations of the Imperial German Navy. Kaiser Wilhelm II. The overall commander of the Imperial German Navy was Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The Hochseeflotte, literally “High Seas Fleet”, was the main battle fleet, part of the larger Kaiserliches Marine (lt. “Imperial Navy”), instrument of Kaiser Wilhelm II, well served by Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz, to secure and keep a colonial empire and to defiantly oppose the major traditional naval powers of the time, Britain, France ...
German Empire - Tirpitz, Navy, WWI: Far more decisive in its effect on Anglo-German relations was the building of a great German navy, first sketched in the Navy Law of 1898 and fully launched by the Navy Law of 1900.
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World War I, challenging Great Britain's command of the seas.
The recent controversy over Germany's war aims during World War I has centered primarily around the positions taken by the Kaiser, the Foreign Office, and the army high command. The views of the navy have been largely neglected. This is unfortunate because the navy was, in a way, the status symbol of the German Empire.