August Howaldt
August Ferdinand Howaldt(23 October 1809 – 4 August 1883) was a German engineer and ship builder. The German sculptorGeorg Ferdinand Howaldtwas his brother.
Biography
[edit]Born inBraunschweig,the son of the silversmith David Ferdinand Howaldt, with whom he got his first practice working in metal, Howaldt made an apprenticeship inHamburgand became apractical mechanicus.
In 1838 he moved toKiel,where he married Emma Diederichsen. In Kiel he founded together with the Kiel entrepreneurJohann Schweffelthe "Maschinenbauanstalt Schweffel & Howaldt", a company initially building boilers for industry and the new railroad companies in between Hamburg and Kiel and agricultural machinery for the surrounding estates inHolstein.
In 1849 Schweffel & Howaldt built its first steam engine for naval purposes for theVon der Tann,a gunboat for the small navy ofSchleswig-Holstein,and theBrandtaucher,the first German incendiary diver orsubmarinedesigned byWilhelm Bauer.TheBrandtaucheris today an exhibit of theGerman Forces Military History MuseuminDresden.Schweffel & Howaldt also built two tugs in 1860 and 1864. When he passed his company to his sons Georg, Bernhard andHermann Howaldt,who continued in 1879 under the name Gebrüder Howaldt. The firm merged with Georg's shipyard in Kiel in 1889 to become Howaldtswerke AG, today known asHowaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft(HDW).
References
[edit]- Christian Ostersehlte:Von Howaldt zu HDW.Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004,ISBN3-7822-0916-8
- August Ferdinand Howaldtin: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 201 ff.ISBN3-529-02560-7
External links
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