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This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
She served as the fleet's flagship during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–1871, [29] though engine troubles prevented the ship from seeing action. [25] In 1878, the ship accidentally rammed and sank the ironclad Grosser Kurfürst, with great loss of life. [33] She returned to service to join maneuvers with the rest of the fleet in the early ...
The ship was present for most of the German fleet operations during World War I, including several raids of the English coast between 1914 and 1916. [3] At the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, Von der Tann was the last ship in the German battlecruiser squadron.
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (2009) Hooton, Tim. The Luftwaffe: A Complete History 1933–45 (2010) Kelly, Patrick J. Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy (2011) excerpt and text search; Kitchen, Martin. A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (1976)
The plan also called for extensive upgrades to Germany's naval infrastructure to accommodate the new fleet; larger dry docks were to be built at Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg, and much of the island of Rügen was to be removed to provide a large harbor in the Baltic. Plan Z was given the highest priority of all industrial projects. [24]
Construction of the fleet was to be complete by 1 April 1904. Rising international tensions, particularly as a result of the outbreak of the Boer War in South Africa and the Boxer Uprising in China, allowed Tirpitz to push through an expanded fleet plan in 1900. The Second Naval Law was passed on 14 June 1900; it doubled the size of the fleet ...
This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( October 2021 ) The list of ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine ) of Germany , covering the period from 1871, the creation of the German Empire , through to the end of ...
The navy of Austria, Prussia's ally, lay in the Mediterranean and was able to intervene only later in the war. After the failure of the Revolutions of 1848, Adalbert was able to resume his plans for the establishment of a Prussian Navy. He began with the construction of warships and naval education and training.