Hugo Meurer was a vice-admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine. Meurer was the German naval officer who handled the negotiations of the internment of the German fleet in November 1918 at the end of the First World War.
Hugo Meurer in April 19, 1918 on board SMS Prinzregent Luitpold in Helsinki
Admiral Meurer reports to Admiral Beatty on HMS Queen Elizabeth about the transfer negotiations for the High Seas Fleet.
SMS Deutschland was the first of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine. The ship was armed with a main battery of four 28 cm (11 in) guns in two twin turrets. She was built at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, where she was laid down in June 1903 and launched in November 1904. She was commissioned on 3 August 1906, a few months ahead of HMS Dreadnought. The latter, armed with ten large-caliber guns, was the first of a revolutionary new standard of "all-big-gun" battleships that rendered Deutschland and the rest of her class obsolete.
SMS Deutschland in the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in 1912
Deutschland
Deutschland underway, c. 1908