Karya

• Tirpitz, Alfred von, Erinnerungen (Leipzig: K.F.Koehler, 1919).

Sumber kedua

• Bird, Keith. "The Tirpitz Legacy: The Political Ideology of German Sea Power," Journal of Military History, July 2005, Vol. 69 Issue 3, pp 821–825
• Bönker, Dirk. Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I (2012) excerpt and text search; online review
• Clark, Sir Christopher, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (New York: Harper 2013)
• Epkenhans, Michael. Tirpitz: Architect of the German High Seas Fleet (2008) excerpt and text search, 106pp
• Herwig, Holger H., 'Admirals versus Generals: The War Aims of Imperial German Navy 1914-1918', Central European History 5 (1972), pp.208-33.
• Kelly, Patrick J. "Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892–1895," Journal of Military History, October 2002, Vol. 66 Issue 4, pp. 1033–1060
• Kelly, Patrick J. (2011). Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 
• Massie, Robert K. Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-03260-7. 
•  author=Saunders, George. Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi 12th). 1922.  Teks "Tirpitz, Alfred von" diabaikan (bantuan)

Sumber utama

• Marinearchiv, Der Krieg zur zee 1914-1918 (18 vols, Berlin and Frankfurt: E.S.Mittler & Sohn, 1932-66).
• Marinearchiv, Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918. Der Handelskrieg mit U-Booten (5 vols., Berlin: E.S. Mittler & Sohn, 1923-66).

Templat:Ketua Admiralti Imperial