the ship was moved to wilhelmshaven over the summer under british control while the division of the surviving warships was decided among the victorious allies. while this was being argued the ships were overhauled with a small maintenance crew aboard to preserve their value. the allied tripartite commission allocated "ihn" to the soviet union at the end of 1945. by this time she had developed some problems with her boilers and the british proposed to swap her for "theodor reidel" to avoid forcing the soviets to wait for her to be repaired. they refused and "ihn" was repaired more quickly than had been estimated with additional spare boiler parts loaded aboard for the voyage.