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Hans Howaldt
Hans Howaldt (12 November 1888, Kiel – 6 September 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
Howaldt
Howaldt is a German family name.
- August Howaldt, founder of the German shipyard Howaldtswerke
- Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, German sculptor, brother of August Howaldt
- Hans Howaldt, submarine commander and grandson of August Howaldt
References.
- Christian Ostersehlte: "Von Howaldt zu HDW". Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004,
- Deutsches Geschlechterbuch, vol. 91 (1936), p. 237 ff.
- "Howaldt" in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck