The German naval budget 1931 according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 12 March 1931

Werft-Reederei-Hafen 15 April 1933

An item dated Berlin, Germany 11 March reported that the Budget commission of the Reichstag accepted the naval budget 1931 which included payment of the first term for a second pocket battleship. The minister of defence stated that he would execute the shipbuilding program.(1)

Note

1. The German panzerschiffe were reclassified as heavy cruisers in February 1940, they were called abroad pocket battleships. Deutschland-class built between 1929-1936 succeeded by Admiral Hipper-class and planned D-class cruisers, consisting of the Deutschland (renamed Lützow in 1940, Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer. Latter laid down by Reichsmarinewerft, Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 25 June 1931, launched on 1 April 1933, commissioned on 12 November 1934 and sunk after an air attack on 9 April 1945.