ABSTRACT
German naval agencies faced with the problems of immediate war to improve their readiness. Whatever the specific conclusions and contentions, the Fischer controversy has demonstrated that the period from the Agadir crisis to the outbreak of World War I was marked by increasing risks of war and a willingness on the part of the German leadership to take them. Within Germany the phobia of encirclement intensified. Wide circles of the public came to regard war as inevitable and many saw it as a solution to the problems arising from the internal socio-political deadlock. By this time the Alfred von Tirpitz Plan was getting into deeper trouble. The Secretary of State had seen the indignation stirred up over Agadir as a means of pushing through another navy bill. The Agadir crisis, which had influenced the Imperial Naval Office to introduce a bill to improve long-term war preparedness, also impelled other.
