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
Kerstin Kaiser of the state party in Brandenburg from 1995 to 1997. She was elected to the Landtag of Brandenburg in 1999. Kerstin Kaiser Kerstin Kaiser (born 16 July 1960 in Stralsund) is a German politician for the left wing party The Left. Following her studies of Russian at the Leningrad University (now the Saint Petersburg State University), she worked as a teacher at the party school of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) ("Parteischule beim ZK der SED "Karl Liebknecht""). She became a member of the ruling SED party in 1980, and continued as member of its successor parties, now