Alfred von Tirpitz
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Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916.
Von Tirpitz in 1903
Time cover, 2 June 1924
Imperial German Navy
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The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out of the small Prussian Navy, which was mainly for coastal defence.
Alfred von Tirpitz
…19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did any of the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871. Tirpitz took…
Major elements of the High Seas Fleet in the early 1910s
Proclamation of Wilhelm I as Emperor of Germany at Versailles, France in 1871
Wilhelm II in German Admiral's uniform in 1913