Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849 1930) was the principal
force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World
War I, challenging Great Britain s command of the seas. As State
Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office from 1897 to 1916, Tirpitz
wielded great power and influence over the national agenda during
that crucial period. By the time he had risen to high office,
Tirpitz was well equipped to use his position as a platform from
which to dominate German defense policy. Though he was cool to the
potential of the U-boat, he enthusiastically supported a torpedo
boat branch of the navy and began an ambitious building program for
battleships and battle cruisers. Based on exhaustive archival
research, including new material from family papers, Tirpitz and
the Imperial German Navy is the first extended study in English of
this germinal figure in the growth of the modern navy."
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