Interior
Comfort wise, Deutschland had a whole new interior style be developed for it, as up to this point HAPAG was copying the styles of the NDL ships, the "Jugend Stil" or a more simplistic version of Art Nouveau was chosen,[3] as it was an emerging popular style in Western Europe at that time which was being associated with modernity.
Deutschland's first-class accommodation which was in the center of the ship, spread out on five decks could accommodate up to 693 first class passengers in utmost comfort, the central piece of the ship was its enormous skylight spanning four decks, it provided natural light to the music room, grand staircase and the dining salon. The newspapers of that time were calling it: "the worlds most beautiful skylight".[4] On the boat-deck, in the center of the ship was the first class entrance, with a couple of staterooms, a printers office for onboard newspaper (A technology that also the Deutschland introduced to ocean liners for the first time[4]) and a nursery. Although around 1902/3 it was rebuilt into the 'Vienna café' with light colors and golden details, the waiters were dressed in slightly "oriental uniforms" to further "exotify" the café.[3] The reason for the replacement of the nursery is unknown, but it might be possible that around that time HAPAG decided to let the children dine with their parents in the main dining saloon, a practice that was rather uncommon at that time in the elite circles.[4]
At the stern of the ship besides a couple of staterooms, was the 'Grill room', a small restaurant similar to the later a la carte restaurant found on White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liner liners. It was run by an independent restaurant staff from brought from Berlin, the style of the restaurant is supposed to remind the diner of an authentic German mountain "Gasthaus". The woodwork was out of mahogany and in the center of the room except for the skylight and a bar was big green ceramic tiled oven,[4] that was used to grill/prepare the dishes in front of the customers table.
On A deck was the music room/lounge kept in white colors with a golden wallpaper,[3] smoking room with a big central skylight, a painting showing Hamburg harbor and a statue on either side representing trade and the market. The whole room was kept in a light blue color scheme.
B deck consisted mainly of 1st class staterooms, four suites every in a different style, a barber shop and purses office.[5] C deck had the first class dining saloon, made out of mahogany with red Japanese wallpaper on the walls and a light beige carpeting.[5]
2nd class accommodations were in styles an exact replica of the ones found in first class but a lot smaller, that dining room could accommodate all 302 2nd class passengers in one sitting, unlike the 1st class dining saloon that needed two sittings.[4]
3rd class was found at the bow of the ship, it did not differ a lot from Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
