Editing Erich Raeder (section)

=== 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>