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History
The Naval Academy was established at this site by the order of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1910. Its unusual gothic architecture, with dominating red brick, was intended to imitate the castle Ordensburg Marienburg, founded in 1274. The architect of the building was Adalbert Kelm.
In 1920 Sherwood Foresters were in Flensburg-Mürwik at the Naval Academy Mürwik to supervise the elections to the Schleswig plebiscites.In the final days of World War II, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz assumed the office of President (Reichspräsident) of Germany, having been named as Adolf Hitler's successor before Hitler's suicide in Berlin. Dönitz moved to the Naval Academy at Mürwik, where he established the Flensburg government in the sports school of the naval academy. This made Flensburg capital of Germany for nearly 20 days. Soon after the final surrender to the Allies, members of the group were unseated, brutally beaten and arrested by British troops.
Today, the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London includes old ship models, old paintings and flags taken from the Naval Academy Mürwik by British troops after the War.
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