SMS Kaiser Barbarossa with of armor plating, and the secondary casemates received of armor protection. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Emperor of Germany, believed that a strong navy was necessary for the country to expand its influence outside continental Europe. As a result, he initiated a program of naval expansion in the late 1880s; the first battleships built under this program were the four "Brandenburg"-class ships. These were immediately followed by the five "Kaiser Friedrich III"-class battleships, of which "Kaiser Barbarossa" was a member. "Kaiser Barbarossa"s keel was laid down on 3 August 1898, at the Schichau-Werke in Danzig, under construction number 640. She
Ernst Kaiser German Reich. A few months later Kaiser fled to Prague to Poland and from there by ship to Southampton / UK. He settled in London. He found only in a slaughterhouse a job where he dragged pork and sides of beef in cold storage. When the war began Kaiser was interned "and was afterwards almost six years in the British Army (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany), as the military government in Hamburg as an interpreter at the rank of sergeant and pulled it right then retire to private life and to waive any officer rank. "Later, he wrote that he had