German cruiser Konigsberg Country: Germany Type: Light cruiser Service: 1929 - 1940 Laid down: 12 April 1926 Launched: 26 March 1927 Commissioned: 17 April 1929 Fate: Sunk 10 April 1940

The K class was a class of light cruisers of the German Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, consisting of three ships named after German cities starting with the letter K: Konigsberg, Karlsruhe, Koln. The class is also referred to as the Konigsberg class according to the convention of naming classes after the first completed vessel.

The class was designed in the 1920s, adhering to the 6,000 ton limit for cruisers imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. To stay within this limit, 85% of the joints were welded instead of bolted. This led to problems, as the welding did not withstand the stress of long sea journeys as well as had been hoped. The ships also suffered major stability problems which, along with the structural ones, led to their being confined to the home waters of the North Sea and Baltic during World War II and precluded their use as commerce raiders.

Konigsberg was a light cruiser of the K class in the German Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. She was built at Reichsmarinewerft, Wilhelmshaven. After a number of foreign visits in the 1930s, the ship operated along the Spanish coast from November 1936 to January 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Her design and construction rendered her poorly suited to commerce raiding or deep-water operations, and when war broke out in September 1939 she was assigned to duty as a torpedo training ship in the Baltic and subsequently used for mining operations in the North Sea. In early April 1940, Konigsberg participated in the invasion of Norway and was sunk in action on 10 April 1940 at Bergen. The wreck was raised on 17 July 1942, and after being righted in March 1943 was used as a pier for U-boats. The wreck capsized again on 22 September 1944, and was broken up after the end of World War II in Bergen.