High Seas Fleet Commander-in-Chief, High Seas Fleet: Admiral Franz Ritter von Hipper in battleship Baden Scouting forces Commander, Scouting Forces: RAdm Ludwig von Reuter in battle cruiser Hindenburg I. SG (RAdm Reuter) battlecruisers: Hindenburg (F), Derfflinger, Moltke, Von der Tann, Seydlitz II.