German Imperial Naval Office

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Imperial Naval Office

Reichsmarineamt
Agency overview
Formed	April 1, 1889 (1889-04-01)
Dissolved	July 15, 1919 (1919-07-15)
Superseding agency	Marineleitung
Jurisdiction	Reich Chancellery
Headquarters	Leipziger Platz (until 1914)/ Bendlerblock, Berlin
Agency executive	Karl Eduard Heusner (1889-1890) Friedrich von Hollmann (1890-1897) Alfred von Tirpitz (1897-1916) Eduard von Capelle (1916–1918) Paul Behncke (1918), Secretaries of State

The Imperial Naval Office (German: Reichsmarineamt) was a government agency of the German Empire. It was established in April 1889, when the German Imperial Admiralty was abolished and its duties divided among three new entities: the Imperial Naval High Command (Kaiserliches Oberkommando der Marine), the Imperial Naval Cabinet (Kaiserliches Marinekabinett) and the Imperial Naval Office performing the functions of a ministry for the Imperial German Navy.