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Walther C. Hubatsch
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Professor of Medieval and Modern History, Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn. Author of Die Åra Tirpitz and others.

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Portrait of Alfred von Tirpitz, German statesman and Commander of the German Navy, seated at a desk with a long beard and formal suit, circa 1925.
Alfred von Tirpitz was a German admiral, the chief builder of the German Navy in the 17 years preceding World War I and a dominant personality of the emperor William II’s reign. He was ennobled in 1900 and attained the rank of admiral in 1903 and that of grand admiral in 1911; he retired in 1916.…
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