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
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (FDGB) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Their moderate leftist views often put them at cross-purposes with Soviet leaders, and in the late 1940s both of them left the Soviet zone. Subsequently, she supported Kaiser in his political career in West Germany and was active in the Christian Democratic Employees' Association, an arm of the CDU. Nebgen married Kaiser in 1953, after the death of his first wife; thereafter, she hyphenated her last name with his. In 1967 she published a biography of her husband, "Jakob Kaiser: Der Widerstandskämpfer" (Jakob Kaiser: Resistance Fighter). She survived him by two decades, dying