Hans Howaldt
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Hans Howaldt | |
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| Allegiance | File:Flag of the German Empire.svg German Empire File:Flag of Germany (1935–1945).svg Nazi Germany |
Branch | Template:Navy/core Template:Navy/core |
Service years | 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 Skagerrak |
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Conflicts | U-boat Campaign (World War I) |
| 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 medal – third place | 1936 Berlin | 8 metre class |
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-member Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.
Awards and decorations
- Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class
- Hamburg and Lübeck Hanseatic Crosses
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords
- Order of the Crown, 4th class (Prussia)
- Pour le Mérite
References
- Howaldt in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol. 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 198 ff. Template:ISBN
External links
- treffpunkt-howaldt.de – Howaldt family (in German)
- Wrecked Gefion torpedoed by UB 40
- Wrecked SS Salsette torpedoed by UB 40 [1][permanent dead link]
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