Post war, T190 served in the Weimar Republic's Reichsmarine, classed as a destroyer due to the Treaty of Versailles.

The ship was still in service on the outbreak of the Second World War, taking part in the German Invasion of Denmark in 1940.

[2] V190 was laid down at AG Vulcan's Stettin shipyard as Yard number 308 and was launched on 12 April 1911 and completed on 5 August 1911.

[5][11] On 28 August 1914, the British Harwich Force, supported by light cruisers and battlecruisers of the Grand Fleet, carried out a raid towards Heligoland with the intention of destroying patrolling German torpedo boats.

The intervention of the supporting British forces resulted in the sinking of the German cruisers Mainz, Cöln and Ariadne.

The British light cruiser Arethusa and destroyers Laurel, Laertes and Liberty were badly damaged but safely returned to base.

[16] The ship was still part of I Flotilla on 19 August 1916, when the High Seas Fleet sailed to cover a sortie of the battlecruisers of the 1st Scouting Group,[17] but was absent at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May–1 June 1916.

[23] After the end of the First World War, the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles left Germany with a small navy of obsolete warships, the Reichsmarine.

[20][9][28] Claus von Bevern remained in use during the Second World War, and during the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940, returned briefly to operational service, taking part in landing operations at Nyborg and Korsør alongside the battleship Schleswig-Holstein as part of Warship Group Seven.

[29] At the end of the war, Claus von Bevern was captured by Allied forces and allocated to the United States.