The Reichsmarine (lit. 'Reich Navy') was the name of the German Navy during the Weimar Republic and first two years of Nazi Germany. It was the naval branch...
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Panzerschiffe (armored ships), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the Reichsmarine officially in accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles...
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German Imperial Naval Office (redirect from Reichsmarine-Amt)
The Imperial Naval Office (German: Reichsmarineamt) was a government agency of the German Empire. It was established in April 1889, when the German Imperial...
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Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war Reichsmarine (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The Kriegsmarine was one of three...
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Imperial German Navy, as well as through the inter-war years of the Reichsmarine. Flag officers of the Kriegsmarine were the leadership of the Germany...
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Otto Kretschmer (category Reichsmarine personnel)
travelled through France, Switzerland and Italy. Kretschmer entered the Reichsmarine (Weimar Navy) on 1 April 1930 as See Offizier Anwärter (naval officer...
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architecture prior to joining the Reichsmarine (German navy) in 1931. In 1934, Hitler chose Krause from a line-up of Reichsmarine sailors to be his personal...
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Constitution. The Reichswehr was divided into the Reichsheer (army) and the Reichsmarine (navy). The Reichsheer consisted of seven infantry and three cavalry...
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subject to the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. For the new Reichsmarine, this meant it was limited to six pre-dreadnought battleships, six old...
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sometimes shortened to z.S. (Oblt.z.S.). The rank has since been used by the Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine, and Bundesmarine. In the Volksmarine, the rank was originally...
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SMS Hessen (section Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine)
German defeat in World War I, the German navy was reorganized as the Reichsmarine according to the Treaty of Versailles. The new navy was permitted to...
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Federal Navy, 1867–71 Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), 1871–1919 Reichsmarine, 1919–35 Kriegsmarine, 1935–45 German Mine Sweeping Administration, 1945–48...
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German Navy Reichsmarine Luftwaffe Years of service 1919–45 Rank Fähnrich zur See (Kaiserliche Marine) Oberleutnant zur See (Reichsmarine) Oberster SA-Führer...
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The German navies—specifically the Kaiserliche Marine, Reichsmarine, and Kriegsmarine—built a series of light cruisers between the 1890s and 1940s. The...
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D-class cruiser (Germany) (category Cruisers of the Reichsmarine)
heavy cruisers, classified as panzerschiffe ("armored ships") by the Reichsmarine (Navy of the Realm). The ships were improved versions of the preceding...
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Professor Dr. Moltmann and received his PhD in 1974 with a thesis entitled Reichsmarine und Landesverteidigung, 1919-1928. He served as lecturer in military...
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Hoyer, K; Brennecke, F (1925). Die Uniformen des Reichsheeres und der Reichsmarine nebst amtlichen Uniformtafeln; mit Genehmigung des Reichswehrministeriums...
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Hoyer, K; Brennecke, F (1925). Die Uniformen des Reichsheeres und der Reichsmarine nebst amtlichen Uniformtafeln; mit Genehmigung des Reichswehrministeriums...
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introduced on German Army versions in 1928, and was soon adopted by the Reichsmarine (German Navy). The plugboard contributed more cryptographic strength...
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Navy are not included. In the period between the two World Wars the Reichsmarine of the Weimar Republic was not allowed to build submarines according...
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programs were exposed in the Lohmann Affair and as a result the Head of the Reichsmarine Hans Zenker had to resign. His successor Erich Raeder continued the policy...
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1934. Originally classified as an armored ship (Panzerschiff) by the Reichsmarine, in February 1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of...
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Hans Zenker (category Admirals of the Reichsmarine)
collapsed in November 1918. After the war, he was an officer of the Reichsmarine, serving as Inspekteur der Marineartillerie from 1920 to 1923 and the...
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of Versailles disallowed submarines, while limiting the size of the Reichsmarine to six battleships, six cruisers, and twelve destroyers. Following the...
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Ernst Lindemann (category Reichsmarine personnel)
downsized to 15,000 men, including 1,500 officers, while being renamed the Reichsmarine in the era of the Weimar Republic. As Lindemann had finished fifth in...
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Walter Lohmann (category Reichsmarine personnel)
30 December 1878 in Bremen; died 29 April 1930 in Rome) was a German Reichsmarine officer with the rank of captain. From 1920 to 1927 as commander of the...
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Theodor Detmers (category Reichsmarine personnel)
cruiser HMAS Sydney in a mutually destructive battle. Detmers joined the Reichsmarine in 1921 and served on the battleships Hannover and Elsass. He was educated...
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Germany during World War II. Ordered by the Weimar government for the Reichsmarine, she was laid down at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel in February...
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in his service; in the Reichsheer - Generalfeldmarschall, and in the Reichsmarine - Grossadmiral. After Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed power as Führer...
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Hoyer, K; Brennecke, F (1925). Die Uniformen des Reichsheeres und der Reichsmarine nebst amtlichen Uniformtafeln; mit Genehmigung des Reichswehrministeriums...
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