Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy

Index

555 index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. A (Allgemeine Marine Department), 359 Adalbert, Prinz, 20–21, 31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 226 Admiralstab: creation of, 163; formal meetings of, 165; Front and, 237, 317; officer corps, 263, 292, 317; peacetime duties of, 236–38, 317–18; strategic planning, 1902–1911, 319–22; Tirpitz’s conflicts with, 316–19, 357– 61, 378, 461; war games of 1901–1902, 242 Afflerbach, Holger, 524n17 Agadir Crisis (Second Moroccan Crisis; 1911), 309, 322, 323–26, 327, 328, 330–31, 347, 361, 450 agrarian interests: aristocratic interests, linked with, 3, 8, 351; canal bill of 1899, 174–75; on Dawes Plan, 437; direct taxation, resistance to, 351, 453; grain tariffs, 105, 169–70; industrialists versus, 166; Navy Law of 1898 and, 138, 139, 140, 147, 151, 152, 153, 489n31; Navy Law of 1900 and, 166, 167, 174–75, 176, 180, 183, 184, 187–88, 493n19, 496n90; Navy Law amendment of 1906 and, 256; Sammlung between industrialists and, 138, 152, 489n31; Weltpolitik, lack of interest in, 231 Ahlefeld, Hunold von: Navy Law amendment if 1908 and, 273; in OK, 483n15; photograph of, 207; ram, advocacy of, 476n30, 483n13; at RMA, 263; on Tirpitz’s memorandum on fleet development, 481n39; in Torpedo Arm, 52, 58–59, 67, 445, 467; in WWI, 387 Albatross, 40 Alexandrine, 487n47 Alexiev, Russian Admiral, 121 Algeciras Act (1906), 323, 324 Algeciras Conference (1906), 264, 265–66, 269 Alghero, Sardinia, Tirpitz family’s estate at, 71, 205, 410, 428 Allgemeine Marine Departement (A), 359 “alliance value,” 95, 114, 115, 133, 196, 252, 279, 286, 449, 462, 466 Allison, Graham, 10, 11, 12, 68, 91–92, 132, 225, 456–64, 470n17 Almansa (Spanish frigate), 41 Alsace-Lorraine, 5, 200, 307, 352, 428 Amazone, 17, 20, 22, 24, 444 Anderson, Margaret Lavinia, 497n113 Anna, Anna-Luise (Tirpitz’s grandmother ), 15 annihilation, naval battles of, 88–89 annual appropriations, 98, 131, 230, 283, 294, 315, 454, 463 anti-British feeling in Germany: German Imperial War Council on, 556 Index 348; Navy Law of 1898 and, 155; Navy Law of 1900 and, 175, 182, 194; Navy Law amendment of 1906 and, 225, 231–32, 249–50, 262; Navy Law amendment of 1912 and, 327; propaganda campaigns making use of, 114–15, 249–50, 262, 324; Second Moroccan Crisis and, 324 anti-Catholicism, 72, 106, 141–42, 276, 420, 421 anti-Jesuit laws, 142, 143, 147, 150, 175, 176, 180, 184, 189, 454, 496n94, 497n1 anti-Semitism, 72, 420, 421, 431 Arabic, 400 Arcona, 17, 22, 24, 119, 120, 122, 123, 472n23, 487n47 Ariadne, 476n26 arms limitation/reduction, 265, 269, 276–78, 284, 298, 352, 428, 431, 464. See also diplomatic efforts to reach naval agreement with Britain arms race: diplomacy with Britain failing to curb, 306, 312, 314, 462; Dreadnought-type battleships and, 262, 462–63; historical analysis of, 6, 448, 450, 462, 463, 466; Navy Law of 1900 and, 187, 195, 495n74; Navy Law amendment of 1906 and, 253, 255, 257, 259, 262; Navy Law amendment of 1908 and, 278, 280, 286, 290; Navy Law amendment of 1912 and, 335; ships’ gun calibers, 346 Armstrong (artillery company), 32 Army. See German Army artillery: accuracy of, 84, 86, 88; ramming incompatible with use of, 84; ships’ gun calibers, 345–46, 359–60, 379; Yalu, Battle of the (1894), 87 artillery test commission, Tirpitz on, 32 Asquith, Herbert, 265, 293, 296, 302, 304, 391 Aube, Théophile, 56–57, 65, 68 Audacious, 382, 383 Aufbau, publication of, 437–39 Augusta, 35 Augusta Victoria (Empress), 405, 406, 411, 442 Australian contributions to British battleship construction, 305, 306 Austria: Balkan War of 1912 and, 3, 347; Bosnia-Herzegovina, annexation of (1908), 296; Dreadnought-type battleships, 344; German 1879 defensive alliance with, 74–75; Lissa, Battle of (1866), 27–28, 43, 81, 84, 88; Schleswig, acquisition of, 22; in summer of 1914 leading up to WWI, 367, 368, 369, 370 Austro-Prussian war (1866), 22, 27 Bachem, Karl, 151, 189 Bachmann, Gustav, 67, 387, 396, 399– 401, 403, 404, 467, 483n15 Baden, 401 Baden, Grand Duke and Duchess of, 70, 138, 143 Balfour, Lord, 304 Balkans: Austria-Hungary, Germany’s defensive alliance of 1879 with, 75; Ottoman Empire, Balkan coalition’s defeat of, 347–48 Ballin, Albert, 334–35, 406 Baltic Sea: geography of, 377; map, xv; naval and trade dominance of, 18, 19, 23; operations of 1917 in, 423; torpedoes in, 49 Baltic Station, Tirpitz as Chief of Staff at (1890–91), 74–80 Barandon, Carol, 156 Barbarossa...