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    The Reichsflotte (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌflɔtə], Imperial Fleet) was the first navy for all of Germany, established by the revolutionary German Empire to provide...
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    Navy traces its roots back to the Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) of the revolutionary era of 1848–52. The Reichsflotte was the first German navy to sail...
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    Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel for Schleswig-Holstein's Flotilla (part of the Reichsflotte) in 1850. The Brandtaucher is the oldest known surviving submarine in...
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    naval officer who helped establish the first unified German fleet, the Reichsflotte, during the First Schleswig War which broke out just before the Revolutions...
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    French suffered on land. Marine-Regatta-Verein Navy League (Germany) Reichsflotte (Fleet of the Realm) Imperial German Navy Reichsmarine (Navy of the Realm)...
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    ships of Germany Marine-Regatta-Verein Naval warfare of World War I Reichsflotte Geoffrey Bennett (June 1960), "The Battle of Jutland", History Today...
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    SMS Barbarossa. She had nine guns fitted, and was the flagship of the Reichsflotte under Karl Rudolf Brommy in the Battle of Heligoland. In June 1852 she...
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    War ensign of the Reichsflotte...
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    the election of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation. The Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) created by the Frankfurt Parliament lasted until 1852...
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    War ensign of the Reichsflotte (1848–1852)...
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    caused deputies of National Assembly to call for the creation of the Reichsflotte or Imperial Fleet. The vote passed overwhelmingly on 14 June 1848, and...
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  • have existed since the founding of German sea forces, first with the Reichsflotte and then most predominantly that of the Prussian Navy. German admirals...
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    Verlag, Stuttgart u.a., 1978, p. 400. Walther Hubatsch: Die deutsche Reichsflotte 1848 und der Deutsche Bund. In: the same (ed.): Die erste deutsche Flotte...
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    4 June 1849 during the First Schleswig War and pitted the fledgling Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) against the Royal Danish Navy, which had blocked German...
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    Revolutions of 1848 in founding the first unified German fleet, the Reichsflotte. During the 1850s he helped to establish the Prussian Navy. Adalbert...
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    prince was given the responsibility of reestablishing an Imperial Fleet (Reichsflotte) -- a mission which the revolutionary parliament had undertaken in the...
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    deutschen Verfassungsgeschichte. Volume Walther Hubatsch: Die deutsche Reichsflotte 1848 und der Deutsche Bund. Ernst Rudolf Huber: Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte...
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    other hand, this first and democratic German Empire, with its small Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) founded a year earlier, fought the First War of Schleswig...
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  • Imperial Navy war ensign (Kriegsflagge) 1848–1852 War ensign of the Reichsflotte 1895–1918 Naval ensign of Prussian Navy 1819–1895 Naval ensign of Prussian...
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    ISBN 3-7637-4800-8, S. 108. Kludas, Arnold: Die Schiffe der Deutschen Reichsflotte. In: Walther Hubatsch: Die erste deutsche Flotte 1848-1854. Mittler,...
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    Schleswig-Holstein under the name of Eckernförde. The ship joined the Reichsflotte in 1850. When it was dissolved in 1852, Prussia bought her for its navy...
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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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    Confederation, the tricolour was mainly used in the small Imperial fleet (Reichsflotte), which was dissolved by 1852. The Frankfurt Constitution, adopted in...
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    He managed to create in a short time a small navy (Reichsseewehr or Reichsflotte) for limited use in the Second Schleswig War (1849) against the superior...
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    the Frankfurt National Assembly (1848–1849) for its ‘Imperial Fleet' Reichsflotte. From 1866 it served additionally as the Navy Department of the North...
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  • Brandenburg Navy, from the 16th century to 1701 Prussian Navy, 1701–1867 Reichsflotte (Fleet of the Realm), 1848–52 North German Federal Navy, 1867–71 Kaiserliche...
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    native Plattdeutsch. In 1849, Werner became an officer in the German Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet), which had been organised the year before. In 1852,...
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    Barbarossa. Fitted with nine guns, she served as the flagship of the Reichsflotte under Karl Rudolf Brommy in the Battle of Heligoland. In June 1852 she...
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    interests in mind. The Frankfurt National Assembly did agree to found the Reichsflotte, the German Navy, on 14 June 1848, which was significant to Germany's...
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    operated in Germany at different times. See Prussian Navy, 1701–1867 Reichsflotte (Fleet of the Realm), 1848–52 North German Federal Navy, 1867–71 Imperial...
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