On June 17, 1869, the Prussian Minister of War Albrecht Graf von Roon read the highest decree on this pier head of the former 2nd entrance in the presence of King Wilhelm I of Prussia, who later became the German Emperor, through whom Wilhelmshaven got its name.

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