 The ships were disarmed and limited to skeleton crews while the Allied powers negotiated the final version of the Treaty of Versailles.On 21 June 1919, days before the treaty was signed, the commander of the interned fleet, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the British would not be able to seize the ships.Unlike her sister ships, "Grosser Kurfürst" was raised in 1938 for scrapping and subsequently broken up in Rosyth.