"Moltke" was surrendered with the rest of the High Seas Fleet on 24 November 1918 and interned at Scapa Flow, under the command of "Kapitänleutnant" Wollante. Believing that the Treaty of Versailles had been signed and his fleet was about to be seized by the British, Rear Admiral von Reuter ordered the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet on 21 June 1919, while the British Grand Fleet was away on exercises. The ship sank in two hours and fifteen minutes. "Moltke" was raised in 1927 and scrapped at Rosyth in 1929.