Naval Cabinet

The naval cabinet was an authority in the German Empire that was responsible for processing the personal details and commands of naval officers, naval cadets , naval infantry officers, naval engineers, naval, equipment, fireworks and torpedo officers of the Imperial Navy . It was created on April 1, 1889. Conceived as an office for exercising command authority in maritime affairs, in practice it developed into the decisive authority in personnel matters for naval officers. As an immediate authority, it was directly subordinate to the emperor , so it was not responsible to parliament .

The chief of the naval cabinet was a senior naval officer who was also the emperor's adjutant general . The first head of the Navy Cabinet from 1889 to 1906 was Admiral Freiherr Gustav von Senden-Bibran . His successor until 1918 was Admiral Georg Alexander von Müller .

The Naval Cabinet of the German Emperor corresponded for the land forces , the military cabinet of the Prussian king.

On October 28, 1918, the Navy Cabinet was subordinated to the State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt and in December 1918 it was converted into the Personnel Office in the Reichsmarineamt.

literature

• Klaus Franken: The naval cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his first boss, Admiral Gustav Freiherr von Senden-Bibran. BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-8305-3522-5 .
• Walther Hubatsch : The Admiral's Staff and the Supreme Naval Authorities in Germany, 1848–1945. Presented using the official files. Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1958.