German Imperial Naval Academy

The German Imperial Naval Academy (Marineakademie) at Kiel, Germany, was the higher education institution of the Imperial German Navy, Kaiserliche Marine, where naval officers were prepared for service in the higher levels of command, from 1872 until 1910.

The Naval Academy was founded in 1872 by the Chief of the Imperial Admiralty, Lieutenant General Albrecht von Stosch, as a graduate school to prepare naval officers selected for higher duties in the Imperial Navy.

The curriculum consisted of navy subjects such as naval history and general education courses.

In 1910 the Academy moved to the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg-Mürwik, where it remains today, used since 1956 by the German Navy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

After the First World War the Kiel former academy building housed a Baltic Sea naval station.

The Marineakademie at Kiel in 1900
The Marineakademie c. 1897; the torpedo boat S82 is in the foreground