The ship was completed slightly over a year and a half, and commissioned into the German fleet on 6 January 1936. Her keel was laid on 1 October 1932, and the ship was launched on 30 June 1934 at her launching, she was christened by the daughter of Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the ship’s namesake. She was ordered by the Reichsmarine from the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven. The vessel was named after Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron that fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action, in World War I. Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine during World War IL.
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