Alfred von Tirpitz Military person
Grand Admiral Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871. Tirpitz took the modest Imperial Navy and, starting in the 1890s, turned it into a world-class force that could threaten the British Royal Navy. His navy, however, was not strong enough to confront the British successfully in the First World War; the one great engagement at sea, the Battle of Jutland, ended in a draw with both sides claiming victory. Tirpitz turned to submarine warfare, which antagonised the United States. He was dismissed in 1916 and never regained power.
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service start | 1869 |
service end | 1916 |
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Alfred von Tirpitz on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Volumes-Illustrated-First-Classics-ebook/dp/B00DH2E9LE
- http://www.amazon.com/Militarism-Global-Age-Ambitions-Germany/dp/0801450403
- http://www.amazon.com/Tirpitz-Architect-German-Military-Profiles/dp/1574887327
- http://www.amazon.com/Tirpitz-Imperial-German-Patrick-Kelly/dp/0253355931
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21282
- https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37011