After World War II the shipyard was totally disarmed under the British Commander in Chief, and of course many military buildings were damaged or vacant. There is an active association of former Wilhelmshaven pupils called The Wilhelmshaven Association. The school relocated to Rinteln in Lower Saxony in 1972, and closed in 2014. After the Control Commission for Germany – British Element (CCG/BE) had rejected several designs, Wilhelmshaven selected the image of a Frisian warrior ( Rüstringer Friese), designed after a nail man erected in the city during the First World War to collect war donations.īetween 19 Wilhelmshaven was the home of Prince Rupert School, a comprehensive boarding school for children of British Army of the Rhine and Royal Air Force Germany personnel serving in West Germany. In 1947 the city council decided to seek a new emblem for the city. 1582 Wilhelmshaven), functioned as a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The Poles remained as part of the Allied occupation forces until 1947. On 28 April 1945, the Canadian First Army captured Emden and the Polish First Armored Division captured Wilhelmshaven, and took the surrender of the entire garrison, including some 200 ships of the Kriegsmarine. Various churches, hospitals, schools and many residential buildings were destroyed or severely damaged. A major attack on residential areas of Wilhelmshaven was carried out on 15 October 1944. In World War II (1939–1945), Allied bombing destroyed two thirds of the town's buildings while the main target, the Naval Shipyard Wilhelmshaven, remained operational despite serious damage. See also: Bombing of Wilhelmshaven in World War II In 1937 Wilhelmshaven and the adjacent village Rüstringen merged and the united city, named Wilhelmshaven, became a part of the Free State of Oldenburg. On 30 June 1934 the " pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee was launched at Wilhelmshaven. All the hinterland of the city remained as part of the Duchy of Oldenburg.Ī shipbuilding yard developed at Wilhelmshaven, the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven ( Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard). In 1869 King William I of Prussia (later also German Emperor) founded the town as an exclave of the Province of Hanover and a naval base for Prussia's developing fleet. In 1853, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, a cousin of the Prussian King Frederick William IV, arranged the Jade Treaty ( Jade-Vertrag) with the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, in which Prussia and the Grand Duchy entered into a contract whereby Oldenburg ceded 3.13 km 2 (1.21 sq mi) of its territory at the Jade Bight to Prussia.
Four centuries later, the Kingdom of Prussia planned a fleet and a harbour on the North Sea.
The Siebethsburg castle, built before 1383, operated as a pirate stronghold the Hanseatic League destroyed it in 1433.
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