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    The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out...
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  • ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) of Germany, covering the...
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    The German Navy (German: Deutsche Marine, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə maˈʁiːnə] ) is part of the unified Bundeswehr (Federal Defense), the German Armed Forces...
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  • of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. The overall commander of the Imperial German Navy was Kaiser...
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    Kriegsmarine (redirect from German War Navy)
    Kriegsmarine (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁiːksmaˌʁiːnə], lit. 'War Navy') was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of...
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    The Imperial Russian Navy (Russian: Российский императорский флот) operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696...
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    German Navy. According to the 1871 Constitution of the German Empire, the federal states were responsible for the German land forces and the imperial government...
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  • Navy 1867–1918 Imperial German Navy 1872–1918 Ottoman Navy 1323-1922 Imperial Russian Navy 1696–1917 Imperial Brazilian Navy 1822–1889 Imperial Navy (film)...
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  • that of the Prussian Navy. German admirals led the German Navy through World War I, as leaders of the Imperial German Navy, as well as through the inter-war...
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    North and Baltic Seas. During the 1870s and early 1880s, the Imperial German Navy had built a number of ironclad warships of various designs. In the mid-1880s...
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  • Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United States were ordered by staff officers from 1897 to 1903 as training exercises in planning for war...
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    the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Both military branches operated aeroplanes, observation balloons and airships. The Imperial German Army...
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    Luger pistol (category World War I German infantry weapons)
    for the Imperial German Navy. The Luger was officially adopted by the Swiss military in 1900, the Imperial German Navy in 1906 and the German Army in...
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  • Adm, (German: Admiral, pronounced [ˌatmiˈʁaːl] ) is the most senior flag officer rank in the German Navy. It is equivalent to general in the German Army...
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    waters of the North Sea, between forces of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet and Imperial German Navy High Seas Fleet. The battle involved 250 warships, and...
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  • member of the Allies/Entente and played an important role against the Imperial German Navy. Politically, the Japanese Empire seized the opportunity to expand...
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  • German Navy may refer to: Reichsflotte, the first German Navy North German Federal Navy, the Navy of the North German Confederation Imperial German Navy...
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    The German Imperial Admiralty Staff (German: Admiralstab) was one of four command agencies for the administration of the Imperial German Navy from 1899...
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    The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich...
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    The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Hungarian: Császári...
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  • Grand admiral (category Articles containing German-language text)
    equivalent to that of marshal in the French Army.[citation needed] In the Imperial German Navy, and later in the Kriegsmarine, the rank Großadmiral was the equivalent...
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    Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of World War II. He began his career in the Imperial German Navy before World...
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    The Imperial Chinese Navy was the modern navy of the Qing dynasty of China established in 1875. An Imperial naval force in China first came into existence...
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    Alfred von Tirpitz (category Imperial German Navy admirals of World War I)
    the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor...
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    British Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine during the First World War and by the Royal Navy, the Kriegsmarine, the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the...
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    1872 the German Imperial Admiralty (Kaiserliche Admiralität). The head of the Admiralty (Chef der Admiralität) administered the Imperial Navy under the...
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  • Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute....
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    Squadron of the Imperial German Navy. The Russian Empire resented the German move as an infringement on Russian ambitions in the region. Germany was a relative...
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    SM U-19 was a German Type U-19 U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. Her construction was ordered on 25 November 1910, and her keel was laid down...
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    Henning von Holtzendorff (category Imperial German Navy admirals of World War I)
    Grand Admirals of the Imperial German Navy. Holtzendorff was born into a noble family in Berlin on 9 January 1853. He joined the navy in 1869, served in...
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