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	Alfred Von Tirpitz - LoveToKnow 1911
		In the conduct of the naval war the official role of Tirpitz was confined to reporting and advising at general headquarters, the actual conduct and initiative in operations being in the hands of the higher command of the navy at Wilhelmshaven, subject to the Emperor's approval or veto.
		Tirpitz himself maintains that his naval aspirations were directed not towards a war with Great Britain, but to the creation of a state of naval equilibrium or of German superiority, which would have enabled Germany to insist upon the unreserved cooperation of British policy in her world aims.
		Tirpitz remained a leading figure in the political agitation against the Chancellor's policy and was selected as president of the " Vaterlandspartei," a political association started in Sept. 1917 under reactionary auspices to combat all attempts at peace by compromise, and to advocate the prosecution of the U-boat warfare with extreme ruthlessness.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alfred_Von_Tirpitz (986 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849 – March 6, 1930) was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916.
		Captain Tirpitz became Chief of the Naval staff in 1892 and was made a Rear Admiral in 1895.
		Tirpitz' design to achieve world power status through naval power, while at the same time addressing domestic issues are commonly referred to as the Tirpitz Plan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_von_Tirpitz (789 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - Alfred von Tirpitz on German Declaration of Naval Blockade of Britain, 4 ...
		Tirpitz, the Naval Minister, outlined his view that the decision was somewhat premature but that, once taken, it should have been regarded as final.
		Von Pohl obtained the consent of the Chancellor, who was still sadly unconversant with the world conditions and our own submarine power and then on February 4th sprang his prepared draft of the declaration of the Emperor while sailing through Wilhelmshaven Harbour.
		It was disloyal of von Pohl not to consult beforehand with the Secretary of State as to the wording of the draft.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/tirpitz_uboatwar1915.htm (634 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Alfred von Tirpitz
		Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) was chiefly responsible, with the significant support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, for the build-up in strength of the German navy, including its submarine fleet, from 1897 until the years immediately prior to the First World War.
		Tirpitz went on to serve as commander of a torpedo flotilla and subsequently inspector general of the torpedo fleet, during which time he developed a keen interest in the potentialities of submarines in wartime.
		Tirpitz "The Eternal" - so-named for his ability to remain in office while all around him came and went (including the Kaiser's brother, Heinrich, who having quarrelled with Tirpitz was unexpectedly removed by nominal promotion) - finally found himself out in the cold.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/tirpitz.htm (627 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) was secretary of the navy during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.
		Tirpitz enlisted in the Prussian navy as a midshipman at the age of 16.
		Tirpitz, a strong proponent of the idea that naval power was indispensable to attaining international political objectives, rose to higher positions of authority within the Naval High Command as he readily supported the Kaiser's demands and presented arguments in the Reichstag to gain funding for the building of new warships.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alfred-von-tirpitz (1487 words)

	Tirpitz
		Tirpitz was a sister ship to the German battleship Bismarck named for Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz.
		Tirpitz spent most of World War II in Norwegian fjords, offering a serious threat to Allied conveys to Russia and tying down Royal Navy resources but not venturing forth.
		Repaired, she was finally sunk in Tromso fjord on November 11, 1944 by Avro Lancasters of RAF 617 and 9 Squadrons equipped with the Barnes Wallis tallboy bombs.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ti/Tirpitz.html (129 words)

	Tirpitz - The History - The Construction
		Tirpitz had given Germany a big ship navy to fight on the oceans - it was ironic that the ship named for him should spend its life lurking in coastal waters.
		Tirpitz, together with other German naval forces, would be a threat to the Arctic convoys between North-America, Great Britain and Russia, and the convoys would need to be more protected by British warships.
		Tirpitz was going to Trondheim, roughly half-way between the Skagerrak and the northern port of Narvik.
	www.bismarck-class.dk /tirpitz/history/tirconstr.html (638 words)

	Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
		Tirpitz was the son of a Prussian civil servant.
		Tirpitz was ennobled in 1900 and awarded the Order of the Black Eagle; and in 1911 he rose to the rank of grand admiral.
		However eagerly Tirpitz may have wanted the high-seas fleet to go into action in World War I, he was forced to realize that, given the vastly superior naval strength of the Allies, his policy of naval deterrence had failed and that the conditions for a decision at sea were unfavourable to Germany.
	members.fortunecity.com /mikaelxii/Germany/Government/Tirpitz.html (915 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz - KBismarck.com Naval Encyclopedia
		Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849 - March 6, 1930) was the creator the German High Seas Fleet (Kaiserliche Marine) and one of the most powerful figures in the imperial government of Emperor William II (Wilhelm II).
		Despite Tirpitz's efforts and his initially strong official and public backing, the German government decided to limit its buildup, which had succeeded in alienating the British and in co-opting resources needed to maintain the strength of the army.
		The German Navy was thus unprepared for World War I. Frustrated also in his support of unrestricted submarine warfare, Tirpitz resigned in 1916.
	www.kbismarck.com /encyclopedia/Alfred_von_Tirpitz (183 words)

	Lawyers, Guns and Money: Sunday Battleship Blogging: Tirpitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tirpitz was heavily armored, although the armor was not as well arranged as it could have been.
		While Tirpitz and her sister were the third largest class of battleships constructed, the weight of their broadside was somewhat less than that of USS New York, a ship constructed in 1914.
		Tirpitz spent most of her time docked in various Norwegian fjords, and acquired the nickname "Lonely Queen of the North" from locals.
	lefarkins.blogspot.com /2006/02/sunday-battleship-blogging-tirpitz.html (894 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz and Right-wing Politics, 1914-1930, by Raffael Scheck
		Alfred Tirpitz contributed to the disaster called World War I. He was an admiral and Germany's secretary of the navy in 1900, when he encouraged his king, Wilhelm II, to pursue what became an arms race in warships.
		Tirpitz wanted his country to have its proper place in the sun and to be second to none as a military power, which meant competition with the world's greatest naval power, Britain.
		Tirpitz contributed to winning the support of a large segment of public opinion, and he won the support of Germany's parliament, the Reichstag.
	www.fsmitha.com /review/r-tirp.html (391 words)

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		Tirpitz was launched 1 April 1939 and deployed in a manner similar to Bismarck, as a commerce raider to be sent against Allied merchant shipping in the North Atlantic.
		In October, as Tirpitz was no longer considered to be a major warship, she was moved further south to Tromsø, to act as a floating gun battery against the expected Allied invasion of Norway.
		Tirpitz was finally sunk immediately to the west of Tromsø, in the bay of Håkøybotn, on 12 November 1944 by 617 and 9 Squadron Lancasters with Tallboys on their third attempt.
	maps.pomocnik.com /German-battleship-Tirpitz-Hakoya-Norway (1124 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz - Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849 – March 6, 1930) was a German Admiral, Minister of State and Commander of the Kaiserliche Marine in World War I from 1914 until 1916.
		Because the British relied on their navy to maintain control over the British Empire, Tirpitz felt they would rather keep control of the empire, and let Germany become a world power, than lose the empire as the cost of keeping Germany less powerful.
		Tirpitz had been made a Grand Admiral in 1911 and was appointed Commander of the Navy on the outbreak of war.
	www.lumrix.com /help/index.php/Alfred_von_Tirpitz (712 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930), tabellarischer Lebenslauf
		Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1620-1688), der "Große Kurfürst", läßt durch holländische Baumeister und Handwerker den Hafen von Pillau bei Königsberg zu einem Marinestützpunkt ausbauen.
		Tirpitz wird zum Corvetten-Capitain befördert und zum Commandeur der "Blücher" ernannt.
		Tirpitz verfaßt eine Denkschrift über die Notwendigkeit des Aufbaus von zwei Geschwadern mit je acht schweren Schlachtschiffen statt einer Flotte von schnellen Kreuzern, wie sie Kaiser Wilhelm II ursprünglich bauen lassen wollte.
	dikigoros.t35.com /bio/tirpitz.htm (2470 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tirpitz,
		His influence on German naval policy began with his study of the recently invented torpedo and his consequent appointment (1871) as chief of the torpedo division of the navy ministry.
		WHY THE LAST HERO OF THE MINI-SUBS THAT WRECKED THE TIRPITZ MUST NOW GET HIS VC; After decades of anguish, the discovery of a wreck at the bottom of a fjord may finally solve the mystery of one man's role in 'the bravest deed in history',REVIEW.
		BBC man and the war hero uncle who died on a mission to find the Tirpitz; Norwegians honour Spitfire pilot who became a symbol of their struggle against Nazis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Tirpitz, (483 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz
		Alfred von Tirpitz was born in Kustrin, Brandenburg, in 1849.
		In 1911 Tirpitz became a Grand Admiral and on the outbreak of the First World War, was appointed Commander of the German Navy.
		In the war Tirpitz was a strong advocate of unrestricted submarine warfare.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWtirpitz.htm (455 words)

	Tirpitz, Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930), Lebenslauf, Biographie
		In diesen Gedankengängen befand sich Tirpitz in voller Übereinstimmung mit Kaiser Wilhelm II.
		Der Erwerb von Kolonien, von Bismarck einst nicht gewünscht, bedingte nach damaliger Auffassung auch den Besitz von Stützpunkten für Streitkräfte: Schutz der Kolonien und das "Zeigen der Flagge" in aller Welt, das entsprach dem imperialen Denken Wilhelms II.
		Alfred Tirpitz, 1896 über die Notwendigkeit einer starken deutschen Kriegsflotte, in einem Brief an Albrecht von Stosch (Chef der Admiralität von 1872-1883):
	www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de /tirpitz_alfred.htm (804 words)

	Book Abstract
		The book demonstrates how Tirpitz, the architect of the German battle fleet before 1914, spearheaded right-wing opposition to emperor Wilhelm II and his government in World War I. This opposition radicalized government policy, led to the fatal declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917, and undermined the German monarchy.
		Tirpitz's later role as the gray eminence of the Weimar right reveals fanciful putsch plans and schemes for a guerrilla war against France in 1922-24.
		The focus on Tirpitz, known as a skillful politician and supreme manipulator of public opinion before 1914, helps to explain the political and ideological problems contributing to the breakdown of the conservative German right and to the success of the National Socialists in the early 1930s.
	www.colby.edu /personal/rmscheck/Abstract.html (289 words)

	Biographie: Alfred von Tirpitz, 1849-1930
		März: Alfred Tirpitz wird in Küstrin als Sohn einer großbürgerlichen Familie geboren und wächst in Frankfurt/Oder auf.
		Tirpitz läßt sich von Lovis Corinth porträtieren ("Großadmiral von Tirpitz").
		Tirpitz bestärkt Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, die Kandidatur zur Reichspräsidentenwahl anzunehmen.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/TirpitzAlfred (226 words)

	Tirpitz - Origin of the Name - Grossadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz
		Tirpitz passed the examination for acceptance as a naval cadet on 1 April 1865 in Berlin (Crew 65) and entered the Prussian Navy on 24 June 1869.
		Tirpitz's "Risk Theory" led to the German High Seas Fleet later being referred to by historians as the "Risikoflotte".
		Over a short period of time, Tirpitz had created, within limits, a usable weapon: any blame that the full political preconditions for its deployment had not been met fell less on Tirpitz than on the shoulders of the Kaiser, who had, ultimately, the total political responsibility.
	www.bismarck-class.dk /tirpitz/miscellaneous/alfred_tirpitz/alfred_tirpitz.html (837 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz - Wikipedia
		Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz gilt als Begründer der deutschen Hochseeflotte.
		Tirpitz glaubte, dass sein Flottenbauplan auch den Effekt haben würde, durch eine erfolgreiche Außenpolitik eine Parlamentarisierung und Demokratisierung des preußisch-deutschen Konstitutionalismus zu verhindern.
		Vorsitzender wurde Tirpitz, Wolfgang Kapp sein Stellvertreter, der zusammen mit Heinrich Claß und Conrad Freiherr von Wangenheim den politischen Apparat aufbaute.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_von_Tirpitz (1927 words)

	Tirpitz, Alfred von - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The expansion of the German fleet contributed to Anglo-German enmity.
		Upon the outbreak of World War I, Tirpitz began the construction of submarines and advocated unrestricted submarine warfare to destroy Allied commerce.
		Tirpitz returned to active political life as the member of a nationalist group in the Reichstag (1924-28).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tirpitz.html (293 words)

	Alfred von Tirpitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz (szlachectwo, wraz z przynależną partykułą von, nadał mu Wilhelm II za zasługi położone dla budowy niemieckiej floty wojennej) urodził się 19 marca 1849 r.
		Tirpitz, który był politykiem nowoczesnym, pojmował, że w dobie rządów parlamentarnych napotykać to będzie zasadnicze trudności, stając się obiektem przetargów i gier politycznych.
		Tirpitz usiłował bronić swych, jak się miało okazać słusznych koncepcji strategicznych po wojnie, przede wszystkim na łamach "Pamiętników".
	www.armianiemiecka.tpf.pl /Flota/tirpitz.htm (2175 words)

	H-Net Review: Cord Eberspaecher on Krieger, Denker, Amateure: Alfred von Tirpitz und das Seekriegsbild vor dem Ersten ...
		Tirpitz aimed at a "homogeneous battle fleet." In contrast to earlier concepts of cruiser warfare, Tirpitz's strategic thinking started in home waters, the North Sea was to be the "lever of our world policy." German battleships were consequently built for short operations, carrying only a limited amount of coal and without much comfort for crews.
		Tirpitz never ignored the need for German cruisers abroad, but a cruiser fleet was for him a project for a distant future.
		German naval policy in the Tirpitz era is usually examined today from the hindsight perspective of developments in the First World War, when the German concept came to naught, as it had been based on the assumption that the British fleet would prefer a close blockade of the German shore.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=245771099502368 (1612 words)

	German battleship Tirpitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the inception of the Arctic convoys and the Commando raid on Vågsøy, Tirpitz was sent to northern Norwegian waters where she spent most of World War II in the fjords.
		Tirpitz had lost 122 crew, with a further 300 wounded, but damage was limited to the superstructure.
		On that occasion, a smokescreen successfully protected Tirpitz from all but one of the bombs, although this, one of No. 9 Squadron's, disabled the ship to the extent that she was no longer a threat to Allied shipping.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tirpitz (1575 words)

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