Göring's logic in having an independent air force was militarily prudent but the future Reichsmarschall saw the new Luftwaffe as a personal power base and fiefdom as well as a crucial war weapon and would not divide it with the navy.[6] Göring's behaviour brought him into conflict with Großadmiral Erich Raeder, commander-in-chief of the navy—known as the Kriegsmarine from 1935.