Georg Howaldt

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Georg Howaldt, around 1909
Model of the freight steamer Vorwärts , built in 1865 , with which Georg Howaldt sailed to the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867
Howaldtswerke 1907
(painting by Fritz Stoltenberg)
Georg Howaldt, Prince Heinrich of Prussia and Commander Egurieff on the launch of the training / transport ship "Okean" (1902) for the Russian Navy Ministry

Georg Howaldt (born March 24, 1841 in Kiel , † May 10, 1909 in Wildbad ; full name Georg Ferdinand Howaldt ) was a German entrepreneur and shipbuilder .

Life

Georg Howaldt learned after visiting the Kieler Gelehrtenschule the machinery in his father Maschinenbauanstalt Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel and on the shipyard and machine factory Summers and Day in Southampton , then studied from 1861 to 1864 Engineering at the Polytechnic of Zurich , where he is also a member of the country team Teutonia , of today's Corps Friso-Cheruskia Karlsruhe . A shipbuilding studying in Hamburg followed.

In 1865 he founded the first shipyard in Kiel harbor, which was taken over by the North German Confederation in 1867 . Georg Howaldt initially became director of Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG , which was founded for the purpose of the takeover , but left at his own request in 1876 to re-establish his own shipyard.

In 1876, together with his brothers Bernhard and Hermann , he took over the engineering firm Schweffel & Howaldt from his father August Howaldt and his co-partner Johann Schweffel IV , which was continued under the Howaldt brothers company . In the same year he himself founded a shipyard on the fjord for the second time , which was merged with his father's mechanical engineering company to form Howaldtswerke AG in 1889 , today's Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW).

The fleet building program of the Imperial Navy led to an upswing for the North German shipbuilding industry and the city of Kiel.

Georg Howaldt was awarded the honorary title of (Prussian) Commerce Councilor . He was married three times and had ten children when he died in 1909. His grave is in the south cemetery in Kiel .

After his death, the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie. the entrepreneurial management and the majority of the shares in Howaldtswerke AG . HDW has been a ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems company since 2005 .

In Kiel-Dietrichsdorf, at the mouth of the Schwentine, all that remains of the original shipyard is the old metal foundry built in 1884 by the most famous Kiel architect of his time, Heinrich Moldenschardt , which was expanded to become an industrial museum.

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SURNAME Howaldt, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howaldt, Georg Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilder and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1909
Place of death Bad Wildbad