The German Imperial Naval Academy (Marineakademie) at Kiel, Germany, was from 1872 until the end of the First World War the higher education institution of the German Imperial Navy, Kaiserliche Marine, where naval officers were prepared for problems in higher levels of command. After the First World War the academy was closed, and the building housed a Baltic Sea naval station. After the Second World War it came into the possession of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is now the government house of Kiel, and serves as a parliament building of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.