Wittelsbach-class battleship
The Wittelsbach-class battleships were a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the early 1900s. They were the first battleships ordered under the Second Navy Law of 1898, part of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz’s fleet expansion program. All five ships were laid down between 1899 and 1900 and were finished by 1904.