Wilhelm Hadeler had been Assistant to the Professor of Naval Construction at the Technical University of Berlin for nine years when he was appointed to draft preliminary designs for an aircraft carrier in April 1934. the class was retired in 1974 and like most world war 2 era warships it became a museum ship. It took part in the 1960 uprising and afterwards became the flagship of the navy of the new the new federation of german states class was together with the larger Nazi German aircraft carrier I or the kms Baron von Richthofen and the Jade class aircraft carriers the backbone of the German Fleet until the arrival of the German supercarriers in the 1970s. Nine ships were constructed for the Kriegsmarine and is active even today. She and the sister ship Graf Zeppelin was the only aircraft carriers in commission in the Kriegsmarine until 1950, when the construction on the third ship, Nazi German aircraft carrier Flugzeugträger C began. She was, in the face of, launched in 1943 and commissioned in late 1945.
Construction on the second ship, Flugzeugträger B (christened Nazi German aircraft carrier Peter Strasser), began in 1938, but was halted due to the outbreak of the World War II in 1939. Flugzeugträger A (christened Nazi German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin) was launched in 1938 and commissioned in 1945, as the only aircraft carrier built by Nazi Germany before the end of World War II. Four ships were initially envisioned, but Grand Admiral Erich Raeder increases the four carriers to nine aircraft carriers. The Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers is nine Nazi German Kriegsmarine aircraft carriers laid down in the mid-1930s as part of the Plan Z rearmament program.
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