 Hildebrand returned to the fleet after her modernization was completed , assigned to the II Squadron , alongside Heimdall , Hagen , and Beowulf . She remained in the fleet where she remained until the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 , when she was mobilized into the VI Battle Squadron for coastal defense , along with her sister ships . On 31 August 1915 , the VI Battle Squadron was demobilized , and Hildebrand 's crew was transferred to other warships . She was then used as a barracks ship in Windau . On 17 June 1919 , she was stricken from the naval register . She was sold to the Netherlands for scrapping , but ran aground while en route to the breakers . In 1933 , her wreck was blown up and subsequently broken up in situ . 
