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|commands= |battles=World War I *Battle of Jutland }} Hans Zenker (August 10, 1870 in Bielitz – August 18, 1932 in Göttingen) was a German admiral. ==Biography== Born in Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland), he entered the Kaiserliche Marine on April 13, 1889. After serving as captain of several torpedo boats, he commanded in turn the light cruisers in 1911 and in 1912–13. As captain of the battlecruiser in 1916–17, Zenker saw action in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. Zenker joined the Admiralty Staff in 1917. He was appointed to the North Sea area command in 1918, holding this post when the German war effort collapsed in November 1918. After the war, he was an officer of the ''Reichsmarine'', serving as ''Inspekteur der Marineartillerie'' from 1920 to 1923 and the top post of ''Oberbefehlshaber der Reichsmarine'' (ObderRM) from October 1, 1924, to September 30, 1928. His tenure as OBderRM saw the beginning of the rebuilding of the German fleet with the construction of light cruisers and torpedo boats and the planning of ships, later built as the ''Deutschland'', ''Admiral Scheer'', and ''Admiral Graf Spee''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Zenker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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