Editing Erich Raeder (section)

== Weimar Republic ==
Raeder's
<nowiki> </nowiki>two younger brothers were both killed in action in the First World War,
<nowiki> </nowiki>and in 1919 his first marriage, which had been under heavy strain due 
to war-related stress, ended in divorce.<sup>[18]</sup>
For the puritanical Raeder, the divorce was a huge personal disgrace,
and for the rest of his life he always denied his first marriage.<sup>[18]</sup> The years 1918–1919 were some of the most troubled in his life.<sup>[18]</sup>

=== High Seas Fleet mutiny ===
In
<nowiki> </nowiki>the winter of 1918–19, Raeder was closely involved in the efforts of 
the naval officer corps, strongly backed by the Defense Minister Gustav Noske–a Majority Social Democrat with firm law and order views–to disband the sailors' councils established after the mutiny.<sup>[19]</sup>
During this period, Raeder served as the liaison between the naval
officer corps and Noske, and it was Raeder who suggested to Noske on 11 
January 1919 that Adolf von Trotha be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.<sup>[20]</sup>
Tirpitz's attacks on the Emperor's leadership during the war had caused
<nowiki> </nowiki>a split in the officer corps between the followers of "the Master" and 
the Kaiser, and Raeder wanted Trotha as the only officer acceptable to 
both fractions.<sup>[20]</sup> Noske in turn asked the Navy for volunteers for the ''Freikorps'' to crush uprisings from the Communists.<sup>[21]</sup> The Navy contributed two brigades to the ''Freikorps''.<sup>[22]</sup> The price of the Navy supporting the ''Freikorps''
was the continuation of the Navy's "state-within-the state" status and
the end of attempts to democratise the military. Under the Weimar Republic, the military considered itself ''überparteiliche'' (above party), which did not mean political neutrality as implied.<sup>[23]</sup> The military argued that there were two types of "politics": ''parteipolitisch'' (party politics) which was the responsibility of the politicians, and ''staatspolitisch'' (state politics) which was the responsibility of the military.<sup>[23]</sup> ''Staatspolitisch''
concerned Germany's "eternal" interests and the "historic mission" of
winning world power, which was to be pursued regardless of what the 
politicians or the people wanted.<sup>[23]</sup>

=== Kapp ''putsch'' ===
After the war, in 1920, Raeder was involved in the failed [[Kapp Putsch]] when, together with almost the entire naval officer corps, he declared himself openly for the "government" of [[Wolfgang Kapp]] against the leaders of the Weimar Republic. In the summer of 1920 Raeder married his second wife, with whom he was to have one son.

=== Inspector of Training ===
After the failure of the Kapp ''putsch''
he was marginalized in the Navy, being transferred to the Naval
Archives, where for two years he played a leading role in writing the 
official history of the Navy in World War I.<sup>[24]</sup> After this, Raeder resumed his steady rise in the navy hierarchy, becoming ''Vizeadmiral'' (Vice Admiral) in 1925.

=== Commander in Chief ===
In
<nowiki> </nowiki>October 1928, Raeder was promoted to Admiral and made 
Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine, the Weimar Republic Navy 
(Oberbefehlshaber der Reichsmarine).

Main article: Interwar naval service of Erich Raeder