Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (German pronunciation: [ˈalfʁeːt fɔn ˈtɪʁpɪt͡s] ; 19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral, State Secretary...
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prior to and during the Second World War. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the ship...
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Tirpitz may refer to: Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), German admiral Tirpitz Plan, a plan for Germany to achieve world power status through naval power...
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(PDF). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 70–71. von Vietsch 1969, p. 190. von Vietsch 1969, p. 191. von Tirpitz, Alfred (1919). Erinnerungen [Memoirs] (in German)...
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plan by German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz in 1897 to create a fleet in being to force Britain to make diplomatic concessions; Tirpitz did not expect the Imperial...
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Tirpitz or Admiral von Tirpitz, after the German admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, including the following: German naval trawler Grossadmiral von Tirpitz [de]...
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Wilhelm II and his Secretary of State for the Navy, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, committed Germany to building up a navy capable of competing with...
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read Mahan, and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) used Mahan's reputation to finance a powerful High Seas Fleet. Tirpitz, an intense navalist who...
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immediate tactical goals. The Imperial German Navy, under Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, expanded greatly from 1898 to 1906 in order to challenge the British...
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battleships. The name of the battery was given after German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. After Romania joined the Axis by signing the Tripartite Pact in November...
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Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who greatly expanded the size and quality of the navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer...
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Reichsmarineamt (Imperial Naval Office). Working closely with Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, he was primarily responsible for drafting the Flottengesetze (German...
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Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's design for Germany to achieve world power status through naval power, while at the same time addressing domestic issues, is...
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was largely led and organized by charismatic, media savvy Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz who was presented as the "savior" type figure, able to rally together...
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German Fatherland Party was founded by Heinrich Claß, August von Dönhoff, Alfred von Tirpitz and Wolfgang Kapp on 2 September 1917. On 9 September, the...
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Fleet (Heimatflotte) was renamed as the High Seas Fleet. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was the architect of the fleet; he envisioned a force powerful enough...
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interest group formed on April 30, 1898 on initiative of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz through the German Imperial Naval Office (Reichsmarineamt) which he...
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appointment of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz to the post of State Secretary of the Navy in 1897 accelerated naval construction. Tirpitz's "risk theory" planned...
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Order of the Red Eagle (redirect from Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein)
Order, 1913, by statute of the Order of the Black Eagle Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930); conferred with the Order of the Red Eagle, Grand Cross...
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1889 - 23 April 1890 Friedrich von Hollmann 23 April 1890 - 1897 Alfred von Tirpitz 18 June 1897 - 15 March 1916 Eduard von Capelle 15 March 1916 – September...
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Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (redirect from Chlodwig Carl Viktor Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prinz von Ratibor und von Corvey)
replaced by Bernhard von Bülow. In the same year William II initiated numerous reshuffles. Among them was the appointment of Alfred von Tirpitz as head of the...
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telegram declining the nomination, but before it was sent, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and a young leader of the agrarian nobility of eastern Germany arrived...
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Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist (d. 1926) March 19 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930) March 24 – Franz S. Exner, Austrian physicist...
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geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen recommended the Bay of Jiaozhou as a possible naval base. In 1896, Rear Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, at that time commander...
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admiral) – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the Kriegsmarine (German War Navy) for the first half...
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corvette SMS Carola. In the 1880s, he served with then-Korvettenkapitän Alfred von Tirpitz in his so-called "Torpedo Gang", which advocated a greater emphasis...
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associated with were General Wilhelm von Dommes, the emissary for the emperor in exile; Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz; Gottfried Gok, a Pan-German leader;...
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(Imperial Navy Office) in Berlin, where he impressed Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. As a reward for his admiralty work in Berlin, Müller was given command...
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1914. Meanwhile, the episode strengthened the hand of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who was calling for a greatly-increased navy and obtained it in 1912...
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Bismarck-class battleship (category Otto von Bismarck)
Schleswig-Holstein. Tirpitz was named for Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the High Seas Fleet before World War I. His daughter, Ilse von Hassel...
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