SMS Seydlitz
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SMS Seydlitz was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine, built in Hamburg. She was ordered in 1910 and commissioned in May 1913, the fourth battlecruiser built for the High Seas Fleet. Named
German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz in port, prior to World War I
SMS Moltke, which provided the basis of the design for Seydlitz
Seydlitz steaming into Scapa Flow
Seydlitz in the floating dry dock at Kiel, before the war
Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the most renowned of the Prussian cavalry generals. He commanded one of the first hussar squadrons of Fred
SMS Seydlitz
…Navy), built in Hamburg. She was ordered in 1910 and commissioned in May 1913, the fourth battlecruiser built for the High Seas Fleet. Named after Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Seydlitz represented the culmination of the first generation of German battlecruisers, which had started with the Von der Tann in 1906 and continued…
1854 portrait
Seydlitz smoked a pipe, and when he tossed it away, it was the sign for his troopers to proceed. Depicted here at the Battle of Rossbach, in a section of a history painting by Richard Knötel.
Statue of Seydlitz at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin (painting from 1872)
Statue of Seydlitz at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin in 2018