SCHEER, REINHOLD VON

German admiral; commanded battle squadron in the High Sea Fleet from beginning of World War; succeeded von Pohl as commander-in-chief of Ger. navy (May 1916), and was in command at battle of Jutland; most capable of the four Ger. navy chiefs during the war. Pub. Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War, in which he explains the circumstances in which Germany lost the war at sea. Continued as commander-in-chief until summer of 1918, when, in succe ion to Admiral von Holtzendorff, he was appointed chief of the Admiralty staff, which post he held at signing of Armistice. In 1919 disclosed his plans for a naval attack on England. A decisive blow was to be struck at the mouth of the Thames in Nov., in the hope that the Grand Fleet, sailing SS would run into flanking submarines. The project was frustrated by the mutiny of Ger. sailors.