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August Howaldt (born October 23, 1809 in Braunschweig (St. Andreas), † August 4, 1883 in Kiel ; full name August Ferdinand Howaldt ) was a German engineer , designer and inventor . As an entrepreneur, he played a key role in the industrialization of the city of Kiel.
Life
Howaldt received his first professional training from his father, the goldsmith David Ferdinand Howaldt . From 1824 to 1829 in Braunschweig he trained as a "practical mechanic" with Ludwig Spengler. By marrying Emma Diederichsen Howaldt became a citizen of Kiel in 1837 .
On October 1, 1838, he founded the engineering company Schweffel & Howaldt together with the wealthy Kiel merchant Johann Schweffel . This initially manufactured machinery for agriculture in the Danish Schleswig-Holstein ago, in 1849, however, the first screw ship machine for the first screw - Gunboat the world that Von der Tann . The mechanical engineering institute built the first iron diver screw ship ( submarine ), the fire diver , which is now in the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden , based on plans by Wilhelm Bauer . In the years 1860 and 1864 two tugs named Kiel and Schwentine were built.
On December 31, 1879, his three sons Georg , Bernhard and Hermann Howaldt took over the company and continued it under the Howaldt brothers company .
In 1889 the mechanical engineering company founded by August Howaldt and a shipyard founded by Georg Howaldt in 1876 on the banks of the Kieler Förde were merged with the establishment of Howaldtswerke AG - today's Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW).
See also
- Name bearer Howaldt
literature
- Christian Ostersehlte: From Howaldt to HDW. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0916-8 .
- August Ferdinand Howaldt. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 12. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , p. 201 ff.
- Wolfgang Zorn : Howaldt, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 665 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Treffpunkt-Howaldt (website of the Howaldt family)
Individual evidence
- ^ Board of Directors of Howaldtswerke AG (ed.): 100 years Howaldt. Kiel / Hamburg 1938.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howaldt, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howaldt, August Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, designer, inventor and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1883 |
| Place of death | Kiel |