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    Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (German pronunciation: [ˈalfʁeːt fɔn ˈtɪʁpɪt͡s] ; 19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral, State Secretary...
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    prior to and during the Second World War. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the ship...
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  • plan by German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz in 1897 to create a fleet in being to force Britain to make diplomatic concessions; Tirpitz did not expect the Imperial...
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  • Tirpitz may refer to: Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), German admiral Tirpitz Plan, a plan for Germany to achieve world power status through naval power...
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    (PDF). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 70–71. von Vietsch 1969, p. 190. von Vietsch 1969, p. 191. von Tirpitz, Alfred (1919). Erinnerungen [Memoirs] (in German)...
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  • Wilhelm II and his Secretary of State for the Navy, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, committed Germany to building up a navy capable of competing with...
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    read Mahan, and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) used Mahan's reputation to finance a powerful High Seas Fleet. Tirpitz, an intense navalist who...
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    Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who greatly expanded the size and quality of the navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer...
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  • German Fatherland Party was founded by Heinrich Claß, August von Dönhoff, Alfred von Tirpitz and Wolfgang Kapp on 2 September 1917. On 9 September, the...
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    Fleet (Heimatflotte) was renamed as the High Seas Fleet. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was the architect of the fleet; he envisioned a force powerful enough...
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  • immediate tactical goals. The Imperial German Navy, under Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, expanded greatly from 1898 to 1906 in order to challenge the British...
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    Reichsmarineamt (Imperial Naval Office). Working closely with Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, he was primarily responsible for drafting the Flottengesetze (German...
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  • Tirpitz or Admiral von Tirpitz, after the German admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, including the following: German naval trawler Grossadmiral von Tirpitz [de]...
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    Order, 1913, by statute of the Order of the Black Eagle Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930); conferred with the Order of the Red Eagle, Grand Cross...
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    Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's design for Germany to achieve world power status through naval power, while at the same time addressing domestic issues, is...
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    was largely led and organized by charismatic, media savvy Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz who was presented as the "savior" type figure, able to rally together...
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    interest group formed on April 30, 1898 on initiative of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz through the German Imperial Naval Office (Reichsmarineamt) which he...
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  • admiral) – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the Kriegsmarine (German War Navy) for the first half...
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  • battleships. The name of the battery was given after German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. After Romania joined the Axis by signing the Tripartite Pact in November...
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    replaced by Bernhard von Bülow. In the same year William II initiated numerous reshuffles. Among them was the appointment of Alfred von Tirpitz as head of the...
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    1889 - 23 April 1890 Friedrich von Hollmann 23 April 1890 - 1897 Alfred von Tirpitz 18 June 1897 - 15 March 1916 Eduard von Capelle 15 March 1916 – September...
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    telegram declining the nomination, but before it was sent, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and a young leader of the agrarian nobility of eastern Germany arrived...
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    appointment of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz to the post of State Secretary of the Navy in 1897 accelerated naval construction. Tirpitz's "risk theory" planned...
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    associated with were General Wilhelm von Dommes, the emissary for the emperor in exile; Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz; Gottfried Gok, a Pan-German leader;...
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    geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen recommended the Bay of Jiaozhou as a possible naval base. In 1896, Rear Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, at that time commander...
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    dominating figure of the Navy was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the autocratic State Secretary of the Navy. Tirpitz's preferred means of obtaining "world power...
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    1914. Meanwhile, the episode strengthened the hand of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who was calling for a greatly-increased navy and obtained it in 1912...
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    Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist (d. 1926) March 19 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930) March 24 – Franz S. Exner, Austrian physicist...
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    Bismarck-class battleship (category Otto von Bismarck)
    Schleswig-Holstein. Tirpitz was named for Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the High Seas Fleet before World War I. His daughter, Ilse von Hassel...
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    corvette SMS Carola. In the 1880s, he served with then-Korvettenkapitän Alfred von Tirpitz in his so-called "Torpedo Gang", which advocated a greater emphasis...
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