Bernhard Howaldt

Bernhard Howaldt (1850–1908)

Bernhard Howaldt (born September 11, 1850 in Kiel ; † March 7, 1908 there ) was a German entrepreneur in the fields of machine , ship and plant construction and significantly promoted the industrialization of the city of Kiel.

Life

After attending the Kiel School of Academics , an apprenticeship in the mechanical engineering institute Schweffel & Howaldt of his father August Howaldt and an internship in Great Britain , he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1872 to 1875 . He was a member of the Corps Bavaria Karlsruhe .

From the end of 1875 to 1889 he was the head of the engineering company Schweffel & Howaldt , which passed from his father to him and his brothers Georg and Hermann in 1880 and was continued under the Howaldt brothers company .

In 1889 the Howaldt brothers were merged with his brother Georg's Kiel shipyard to form Howaldtswerke AG - today's Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW). The fleet building program of the Imperial Navy was one of the decisive prerequisites for the further development of the company and the city of Kiel, the first submarine construction of the fire diver according to the plans of Wilhelm Bauer by Schweffel & Howaldt still characterizes Kiel as a shipbuilding location . HDW has been a ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems company since 2005 .

In Kiel-Diedrichsdorf, at the mouth of the Schwentine, only the old metal foundry , built in 1884 by the most famous Kiel architect of his time, Heinrich Moldenschardt , remains of the former shipyard , which has been expanded to become an industrial museum. After leaving Howaldtswerke AG , Bernhard Howaldt and his son Bernhard junior built two hydropower plants on his Rastorfer Mühle estate in Schwentinental from 1903 , which are still operated today by Stadtwerke Kiel . For this purpose, after long negotiations with the landowner Christian zu Rantzau , they dammed the Schwentine into the Rosensee and a local recreation area that is extremely valuable today was created .

Bernhard Howaldt died on March 7, 1908 before the completion of the Electricity Works II on the Schwentine in 1909. He had been married to Alwine Bammel since 1876 and had seven children, including Kurt Howaldt .

See also

• Experimental submarine (1897)
• Further namesake of the Howaldt family

literature

• Christian Ostersehlte: From Howaldt to HDW. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0916-8 .
• Bernhard Howaldt. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 12. Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , p. 204 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)