The Hoffmann Plan was a German military plan published by German Minister of War Hans von Hoffmann (as well as Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and General Paul von Hindenburg) in late 1908 stating that, in the event of war with the Russian Empire, the High Seas Fleet's destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet to occur before an amphibious invasion of southern Finland. The landing of soldiers in Finland - and, in particular, the city of Helsinki - would come as a distraction to Russian commanders and force them to divert troops from the front lines in Congress Poland northward to contain the German amphibious invasion.