Imperial German Navy order of battle (1914)
This is the order of battle of the Imperial German Navy on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914.
Emperor Wilhelm II
Admiral Müller, Chief of the Naval Cabinet
Grand Admiral Tirpitz, State Secretary of the Imperial Navy Office
Vice-Admiral Pohl, Chief of the Imperial Admiralty Staff
The German East Asia Squadron was an Imperial German Navy cruiser squadron which operated mainly in the Pacific Ocean between the mid-1890s until 1914, when it was destroyed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. It was based at Germany's Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory in China.
The East Asia Squadron (in the rear, under steam) leaving Valparaíso harbour in Chile, with Chilean cruisers in the foreground
SMS Hertha with only two funnels as a training ship after her time in China
Men of the squadron ashore in Batavia (now Jakarta), Indonesia, on 27 January 1913
Scharnhorst (prewar postcard)