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 fought against Germany in Germany. Still in Hamburg was published in 1946 his first book, "Shadow Man", a novella, published by Hans Duve. He lived in London, working as a translator. As a writer he has been unsuccessful. End of 1946, Kaiser took British citizenship. He met Eithne Wilkins, a New Zealand Germanist know, translator and poet. She taught at the time as a lecturer at the University of London. Kaiser and Wilkins married in 1949. 1947 Kaiser asked the Bollingen Foundation in New York, a grant to the second part of his novel writing "The Story of a Murder."