High Seas Fleet
"Stuttgart" was ordered under the contract name "O" and was laid down at the Imperial Dockyard in Danzig in 1905. She was launched on 22 September 1906, after which fitting-out work commenced. She was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 1 February 1908. After her commissioning into the High Seas Fleet, "Stuttgart" was used as a gunnery training ship for the Fleet's gunners.