Tirpitz Grand Admiral's Baton, or lack thereof.

[DarthZealous]

This may be a subject others have posted about, but I could not find any in a search, but does anyone have any information what Tirpitz never received a baton, despite being a Grand Admiral? Or did he in fact receive one?

In 'Mythos Marschallstab' it lists Tirpitz as a Grand Admiral, naturally, but doesn't show a baton. In the book by Osprey, 'The Kaiser's Warlords: German Commanders of World War I', it depicts a drawing of Tirpitz holding a Grand Admiral's baton, but I have never seen a photographic image of him hold one.

Does anyone have any information on this? Cheers.

[Marcon1]

See what Wikipedia has to say about him - it states he never received one.

[Daniel Krause]

It seems a bit complicated.

Tirpitz was no "real" Großadmiral.

Proper Großadmirale (with Baton) were only v.Koester, Prinz Heinrich and v.Holtzendorff.

 

The Navy unlike the Army did not have the rank equivalent of a Generaloberst or Generaloberst mit dem Rang eines Generalfeldmarschall.

So they had to "invent" something special for Tirpitz and gave hm the Title of a Großadmiral with the rank badges of a rank below.

 

Best,

Daniel