Nautical chart of the Kiel Fjord on the Baltic Sea, leading to Kiel, one of the home ports of the German Baltic Fleet. Just north of Kiel is the entrance to the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, which crosses the Jutland Peninsula in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, and carries traffic to the mouth of the River Elbe on the North Sea.

Seekarte der Kieler Föhrde



Nautical chart of the Kiel Fjord



Labeled: Holstein, Kiel itself, and the towns of Laboe and Friedrichsort (and its lighthouse) at the mouth of the fjord.



Someone has annotated the town of Lutterbek.

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Kiel was a home port of the German Baltic Sea Fleet. It was at the northern end of the the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal leading to Cuxhaven and the North Sea.

At the end of October 1918, with Germany clearly losing the war, German admirals and other naval officers planned a suicidal attack by the High Seas Fleet on the Royal Navy, an illegal mutiny by the naval officer corps. Sailors and coal stokers refused to go ahead with the mission. Many were arrested and transported from Cuxhaven to Kiel. The sailors' mutiny spread.

Delegates of the Third Squadron presented their demands to Secretary of the Navy Ritter von Mann on November 7. The sailors demanded rights of assembly and free speech, access to press publications, equal rations with officers, the reduction of the power of officers to punish them, fines rather than imprisonment for some infractions, representation in the Admiralty, and the freedom not to salute officers when off duty. By November 7 and 8, rebellious sailors, some of them Bolsheviks, controlled Cuxhaven, Lübeck, Hanover, and Hamburg.

Kiel is a city in Germany.

Statistics for Kiel (1)

Type	Statistic
Population	211,627