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List of battleships of Germany
The German navies—specifically the Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine of Imperial and Nazi Germany, respectively—built a series of battleships between the 1890s and 1940s. To defend its North and Baltic Sea coasts in wartime, Germany had previously built a series of smaller ironclad warships, including coastal defense ships, and armored frigates. With the accession to the throne of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1888, the Kaiserliche Marine began a program of naval expansion befitting a Great Power. The navy immediately pushed for the construction of the four s, after which soon followed five ships. The 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 a fleet that would be sufficiently powerful so that Great Britain, then the world's preeminent naval power, would avoid risking war with Germany in order to preserve its superiority.
Admiral von Tirpitz secured a series of Naval Laws between 1900 and 1912 that drastically increased the budget of the navy and authorized scores of battleships; the final law envisioned a fleet of some 41 battleships, 25 of which would have been assigned to the High Seas Fleet, with the remainder in reserve. Following the ''Kaiser Friedrich III'' class were the , , and es, the last pre-dreadnoughts built in Germany. The launch of the "all-big-gun" in 1906 revolutionized battleship construction, and forced von Tirpitz to radically alter his shipbuilding plan. In order to remain in the battleship race, Tirpitz secured the funds for the first four German dreadnoughts, the , which were laid down beginning in June 1907. The four s followed in 1908, as well as the five s in 1909–10. Four s were laid down in 1911–12, and four s were laid down in 1913–15, though only two— and —were completed. Germany's defeat in 1918 resulted in the internment of the majority of the High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow; the ships were eventually scuttled on 21 June 1919 to prevent them from being seized by the British Royal Navy. Of the ten battleships interned, only one, ''Baden'', was prevented from sinking; she was later expended as a gunnery target by the Royal Navy.
Following the war, Germany was limited to eight pre-dreadnought battleships, two of which would be in reserve. New warships were severely limited in terms of armament and size. Admiral Erich Raeder was appointed the commander of the German navy in 1928. Raeder initially employed a cautious strategy ''vis a vis'' the government of the Weimar Republic. However, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933 allowed Raeder opportunity to expand the fleet. Hitler's government negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in 1935, which stipulated the German navy could rebuild to 35 percent of the strength of the Royal Navy. The first new battleships built in Germany were the two ships, and in 1935. The two s followed in 1936; was completed in 1940 and in 1941. Plan Z was formulated in 1939 to rebuild the German navy; the plan called for six additional battleships of the H-39 class. Two of them were laid down in mid-1939, though they were canceled within two months, due to the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. The other four were canceled without any work being done. ''Bismarck'', ''Tirpitz'', and ''Scharnhorst'' were sunk during the war and ''Gneisenau'' was scuttled in Gotenhafen in 1945. Further design studies were drawn up, culminating in the massive H-44 class, but they were not serious proposals due to the infeasibility and expense of the ships.
== ''Brandenburg'' class ==
(詳細はBoxer Rebellion in China in 1900–01 under the command of Marshal Alfred von Waldersee. Following the return from China, the ''Brandenburg''s were taken into drydock for modernization, which lasted from 1901 to 1905 depending on the ship. During the reconstruction the superstructure was cut down, a second conning tower was added, and the steam boilers were replaced with newer models. ''Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm'' and ''Weissenburg'' were sold to the Ottoman Empire in 1910 and renamed ''Barbaros Hayreddin'' and ''Turgut Reis'', respectively. ''Brandenburg'' and ''Wörth'' were decommissioned and placed into reserve. At the start of World War I, both ships were recalled to active service as coastal defense ships, but due to their age they were quickly demobilized. They spent the remainder of the war as barracks ships before being broken up in 1920.
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