Because Imperial Germany wanted to become a world power, it tried to be present on all the world’s oceans and to acquire colonies. The naval units should protect them, enforce claims and show strength. They did not always have pure representational measures, as the Boxer Rebellion proves.
In this new publication, naval expert Hans Karr dedicates himself to Germany’s maritime colonial history. He describes the foreign cruisers and stations, the naval base Tsingtau, the East Asian cruiser squadron from 1897 to 1914 and its ships of the Asian and Australian stations.