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Thursday, 26 September 2024

German State Secretary Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930)

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (19 March 1849 Küstrin, Prussia, Poland-6 March 1930 Ebenhausen, Germany) grand admiral and State Scretary of the German Imperial Naval Office (appointed in 1896. Responsible for converting since the 1890s of the modest Imperial Navy into a first naval power and a threat for the British Royal Navy.

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