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 in 1983 in Berlin. Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist who was active in the country's Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II. Elfriede Nebgen was born in Hildesheim, Germany, and was initially educated there and in Lausanne, Switzerland. She trained to be a teacher at a school run by the Ursulines in Duderstadt. Her first teaching job was at a school for Polish girls in Poznan. During World War I, she