Hans Howaldt

Infobox Military Person
name=Hans Howaldt
lived=November 12, 1888 - September 6, 1970
placeofbirth=Kiel
placeofdeath=Bad Schwartau


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alegiance=German Empire
serviceyears=1907 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945
rank=Kapitän zur See
branch=Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine
commands=UC 4, UB 40 and UB 107 Minelayer Hansestadt Danzig
unit=Flandern Flottille, Zeebrugge, and in 1939 a unit of minelayers in the Baltic Sea, including Kattegat and Skagerak
battles=Battle of the Atlantic (1914-1918)
awards=Iron Cross
House Order of Hohenzollern
Pour le Mérite
Hanseatic Cross
War Merit Cross
relations=His Grandfather August Howaldt was the builder of the first German submarine Brandtaucher.
laterwork=

Hans Howaldt (November 12, 1888 - September 6, 1970) was a successful and highly decorated German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I and also active in World War II. By the end of World War I he was promoted Kapitänleutnant.

As a sportsman Hans Howaldt won Bronze in the international 8 Metre class sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics on the Bay of Kiel as skipper of Germania III, a keelboat designed and built by Abeking & Rasmussen and owned by crew-member Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.

References

* "Howaldt" in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol. 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 198 ff. ISBN 3529025607

External links

* [http://www.treffpunkt-howaldt.de Howaldt-family in German]
* [http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=4630&section=5&action=display Wrecked "Gefion" torpedoed by UB 40]
* [http://www.gue.com/Exploration/Wreck/q2_4a.htm Wrecked "SS Salsette" torpedoed by UB 40] [http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=2266&section=1024&action=display&show=]