Hans Howaldt
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| Hans Howaldt | |
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| November 12, 1888 - September 6, 1970 | |
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| Place of birth | Kiel |
| Place of death | Bad Schwartau |
| Service/branch | Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine |
| Years of service | 1907 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945 |
| Rank | Kapitän zur See |
| Unit | Flandern Flottille, Zeebrugge, and in 1939 a unit of minelayers in the Baltic Sea, including Kattegat and Skagerak |
| Commands held | UC 4, UB 40 and UB 107 Minelayer Hansestadt Danzig |
| Battles/wars | 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. |
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| Bronze | 1936 Berlin | 8 metre class | |
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.
[edit] References
- Howaldt in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol. 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 198 ff. ISBN 3529025607
[edit] External links
- Howaldt-family in German
- Wrecked Gefion torpedoed by UB 40
- Wrecked SS Salsette torpedoed by UB 40 [1]
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