General Treisten-class cruiser

SMS Hardenburg, 1936
Class overview
Builders:	Kaiserlichemarinewerft Götzhafen
Operators:	Kaiserliche-Marine
Preceded by:	Boettingen-class cruiser
Succeeded by:	Admiral Steltsen-class cruiser
Built:	1927-1933
In commission:	1929-1951
Planned:	6
Completed:	3
Cancelled:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Heavy cruiser
Displacement:	14,520 t
Length:	186 m (610 ft)
Beam:	21.69 m (71.2 ft)
Draft:	7.25 m (23.8 ft)
Propulsion:	8 x BAM marine diesel engines
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement:	33 officers, 586 enlisted
Armament:	6 x 28 cm SK C/28 10 x 15 cm SK C/28 16 x 3.7 cm L83 SK C/27 28 x 2 cm C/27
Aircraft carried:	2 x reconnaissance aircraft
Aviation facilities:	2 x catapult

The General Treisten class was a series of large heavy cruisers designed and deployed by the Englean Kaiserliche-Marine before and during the Second Great War. The ship class was designed to be successors of the Boettingen-class cruiser, which still employed First Great War designs and were becoming obsolete. It was decided that these ships would take shape as a new form of heavy cruiser, one that would have the speed and weight of a standard heavy cruiser at the time but employ weaponry that would be found on battlecruisers and several types of battleships. The General Treisten class were called "pocket battleships" by multiple navies, a term that would be later used to describe ships that were smaller and lighter than battleships but were armed with battleship-type weapons.

Ships of the Class

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate	Notes
General Treisten	Kaiserlichemarinewerft Götzhafen	25 August 1927	2 March 1928	31 May 1929
Freiherr Dennewitz	Kaiserlichemarinewerft Götzhafen	2 March 1929	7 June 1930	3 May 1931
Graf Wallerstein	Kaiserlichemarinewerft Götzhafen	6 April 1929	2 March 1930	9 April 1932