Naval history of Germany

1871–1919 maritime warfare branch of the German Empire's military

The '''''' ('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 of the , existing from 1919 to 1935. In 1935, it was renamed as the Kriegsmarine (War Navy), a branch of the Wehrmacht; a change implemented by Adolf Hitler. Many of the administrative and organizational tenets of the were then carried over into the organization of the Kriegsmarine.

the passages between the northern Atlantic Ocean and the Norwegian Sea (Greenland - Iceland - United Kingdom)

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revolt by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet on 1918

1914 World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies

planned re-equipment of the Kriegsmarine

attempted scuttling of the captured German fleet in 1919

inter-war arms limitation agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany

naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903

German admiral (1853-1919)

early 20th-century arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany

military history museum in Dresden, Germany

The Seekriegsleitung or SKL (Maritime Warfare Command) was a higher command staff section of the Kaiserliche Marine and the Kriegsmarine of Germany during the World Wars.

The Reichsflotte (, Imperial Fleet) was the first navy for all of Germany, established by the revolutionary German Empire to provide a naval force in the First Schleswig War against Denmark. The decision was made on 14 June 1848 by the Frankfurt Parliament, which is considered by the modern German Navy as its birthday.

navy of Brandenburg-Prussia (1657-1701)

standoff between the United States, Imperial Germany, and Great Britain from 1887–1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the Samoan Civil War

1867-1871 maritime warfare branch of the North German Confederation's military

1945–1955 British Secret Intelligence Service program to infiltrate its agents into Poland and Baltic states

19th-century Pacific island colonial conflict

five separate laws passed by the German Empire

United States program to help build up the military of West Germany after World War II

German naval promotion organization

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battleship built in the 1920s or 1930s under the terms of one of a number of international treaties governing warship construction

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Germany's pre-World War I strategic aim to build the second largest navy in the world

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