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Tirpitz may refer to: People * Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), German admiral ** Tirpitz Plan, a plan for Germany to achieve world power status through naval power Ships * German battleship ''Tirpitz'', a World War II-era Bismarck-class battleship named after the admiral * List of ships named ''Tirpitz'' Museums * Tirpitz Museum (Denmark), focused on the Atlantic Wall in Denmark. * Tirpitz Museum (Norway), focused on the battleship of same name ''Same Name'' is an American reality television series in which an average person swaps lives with a celebrity of the same first and last name. It premiered on July 24, 2011 on CBS. The series received low ratings, and CBS pulled it after four-ep .... Other uses * German coastal battery ''Tirpitz'', a World War II artillery emplacement in Romania * Tirpitz (pig), a pig rescued from the sinking of SMS ''Dresden'' and named after the admiral * Tirpitz Range, a range of mountains on New Hanover and New Ireland islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Von Tirpitz
Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (; born Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz; 19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871. Tirpitz took the modest Imperial Navy and, starting in the 1890s, turned it into a world-class force that could threaten Britain's Royal Navy. However, during World War I, his High Seas Fleet proved unable to end Britain's command of the sea and its chokehold on Germany's economy. The one great engagement at sea, the Battle of Jutland, ended in a narrow German tactical victory but a strategic failure. As the High Seas Fleet's limitations became increasingly apparent during the war, Tirpitz became an outspoken advocate for unrestricted submarine warfare, a policy which would ultimately bring Germany into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirpitz Plan
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's design for Germany to achieve world power status through naval power, while at the same time addressing domestic issues, is referred to as the Tirpitz Plan. Politically, the Tirpitz Plan was marked by the Fleet Acts of 1898, 1900, 1908 and 1912. By 1914, they had given Germany the second-largest naval force in the world (roughly 40% smaller than the Royal Navy). It included seventeen modern dreadnoughts, five battlecruisers, twenty-five cruisers and twenty pre-dreadnought battleships as well as over forty submarines. Although including fairly unrealistic targets, the expansion programme was sufficient to alarm the British, starting a costly naval arms race and pushing the British into closer ties with the French. Tirpitz developed a "Risk Theory" whereby, if the German Imperial Navy reached a certain level of strength relative to the British Royal Navy, the British would try to avoid confrontation with Germany (that is, maintain a fleet in being). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Battleship Tirpitz
() was the second of two s built for Nazi Germany's (navy) prior to and during the Second World War. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the (Imperial Navy), the ship was laid down at the in Wilhelmshaven in November 1936 and her Hull (watercraft), hull was launched two and a half years later. Work was completed in February 1941, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Like her sister ship, , was armed with a main battery of eight 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun, guns in four twin Gun turret, turrets. After a series of wartime modifications she was 2000 tonnes heavier than , making her the heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy. After completing sea trials in early 1941, briefly served as the centrepiece of the Baltic Fleet, which was intended to prevent a possible break-out attempt by the Soviet Baltic Fleet#Great Patriotic War, Soviet Baltic Fleet. In early 1942, the ship sailed to Norway to act as a deterrent against an Allied in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ships Named Tirpitz
A number of ships have been named ''Tirpitz'' or ''Admiral von Tirpitz'', after the German admiral Alfred von Tirpitz Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (; born Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz; 19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperi ..., including the following: Naval vessels * , launched 1916 * German battleship ''Tirpitz'', a World War II-era Bismarck-class battleship Merchant ships * , a passenger-cargo vessel of Hamburg-America Line * ''Tirpitz'' (1913), an ocean liner completed in 1919 (launched 1913 as ''Admiral von Tirpitz'' for Hamburg-America Line), but better known as ''Empress of Australia'' * , a cargo liner of Hamburg America Line, lost by mine in 1941 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tirpitz Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirpitz Museum (Denmark)
Tirpitz Museum (), also called Blåvand Bunker Museum, is a museum in Blåvand, on the coast of Jutland. It is built in an old bunker from which it got its name, and features exhibitions on the Atlantic Wall, the west coast of Denmark, and an amber collection. History The Tirpitz Bunker started construction in 1944, and was built as part of the defense around the city of Esbjerg. Following the German Instrument of Surrender, surrender of the German forces, construction was halted, and the bunker was therefore never completed. The bunker was designed to house 2 turrets with 2 38 cm SK C/34 naval guns each. After the war, the bunker was abandoned and later turned into a small museum. In 2012, it was decided to expand and completely redesign the museum, with Bjarke Ingels Group being chosen as architect of the new museum. The new museum features open spaces and is built into the dunes. The permanent exhibitions were designed by Dutch experience design agency Tinker Imagineers. On 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall () was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortification, coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defense (military), defence against an anticipated Operation Overlord, Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II. The manning and operation of the Atlantic Wall was administratively overseen by the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army, with some support from ''Luftwaffe'' ground forces. The ''Kriegsmarine'' (German Navy) maintained a separate coastal defence network, organised into a number of sea defence zones. Hitler ordered the construction of the fortifications in 1942 through his Führer Directive No. 40. More than half a million French people, French workers were drafted to build it. The wall was frequently mentioned in Nazi propaganda, where its size and strength were usually exaggerated. The fortifications i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirpitz Museum (Norway)
Tirpitz Museum is a war museum that is located in the village of Kåfjord in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. History The museum has one of the largest collections of photos and artifacts from the battleship , a built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The battleship ''Tirpitz'' had served as one of the main threats against supply convoys sailing to Murmansk. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, a German naval base was established in the Altafjord to prevent convoys from the Western Allies from delivering supplies to the Soviet Union. These supplies were deemed critical to the outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. The Alta area was one of Germany's largest naval bases during the war. ''Tirpitz'', which was one of the world's largest and most powerful battleships, was anchored for nearly two years in Kåfjord. Altafjord was also a base for many other German warships, among them the battleship and the heavy cruiser , as well as dozens o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Coastal Battery Tirpitz
The German coastal battery ''Tirpitz'', consisting mainly of three large 280 mm guns, was the most powerful Coastal batteries of Romania, coastal battery on the Romanian shore during World War II. The three guns, model 28 cm SK L/45 gun, 28 cm SK L/45, came from spares for the World War I-era Nassau-class battleship, ''Nassau''-class battleships. The name of the battery was given after German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. History After Romania joined the Axis powers, Axis by signing the Tripartite Pact in November 1940, German troops began crossing into the country to provide training and modernization to the Romanian Armed Forces. The Romanian coastal artillery was largely obsolete. As such, Romanian and German authorities agreed on the construction of the powerful battery south of the Romanian port of Constanța. Construction started in the winter of 1940, with many Romanians helping in its building, and the battery fired the first rounds in April 1941, in the presence o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirpitz (pig)
Tirpitz was a pig captured from the Imperial German Navy after a naval skirmish (the Battle of Más a Tierra) following the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. She became the mascot of the cruiser . Early life Pigs were often kept on board warships to supply fresh meat. Tirpitz was aboard , when she was ordered into the South Atlantic to join with the forces of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee to raid Allied merchants. The ship's first encounter with was at the Battle of Coronel, where the German fleet was victorious. They were later defeated at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, though the faster ''Dresden'' managed to escape. She was located in Cumberland Bay on the Chilean island of Más a Tierra (today known as Robinson Crusoe Island), by HMS ''Glasgow'' and off the coast of South America on 15 March 1915. The Germans scuttled the ship, but Tirpitz was left on board as she sank. Capture and Royal Navy service Tirpitz was able to make her way above deck and swim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Hanover Island
New Hanover Island, (), also called Lavongai, is a large volcanic island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. This region is part of the Bismarck Archipelago and lies at . Measuring some , it had a population of 5,000 in 1960, which increased to approximately 17,160 by 2000. In the interior the Tirpitz Range reaches a height of 2,800 feet. Culture Friedrich Ratzel Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term ''Lebensraum'' ("living space") in the sense that the National Socialists later would. Life Ratzel's father was th ... in ''The History of Mankind''Ratzel, Friedrich. The History of Mankind. (London: MacMillan, 1896). URLwww.inquirewithin.biz/history/american_pacific/oceania/melanesian-ornament.htm accessed 21 October 2009. reported in 1896, when discussing Melanesian ornament, that there were luxurious feather ornament displays in New Hanover, showing much taste in the comb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
