Hans Viktor Howaldt

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Hans Viktor Howaldt (born June 19, 1919 in Lübeck ; † July 23, 1998 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German naval officer , entrepreneur and ocean sailor.

Naval officer

Hans Viktor Howaldt was born as the son of the former submarine commander Hans Howaldt and followed his father in life by joining the Navy in 1937 . A first training trip in 1938 took a sailing training ship to the Caribbean and the Bermuda Islands . The second training trip on the Schleswig-Holstein liner went to Africa, South America and on the way back via England.

During the Second World War Howaldt was in 1940 as a lieutenant in the sea, in command of changing speed boats , and from August 1944 group leader and deputy flotilla chief. He was deployed both in the English Channel , but mainly in the eastern Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland , most recently since January 1, 1945 as a lieutenant captain . Howaldt was awarded both Iron Crosses and the German Cross in Gold . Other mission-specific awards were the Schnellboot War Badge , the Finnish Freedom Cross and the Kurland cuff .

As a reserve officer in the German Navy , he was promoted to corvette captain of the reserve in 1968, the year of his third transatlantic regatta .

His brothers Dietrich and Andreas also served on speedboats during World War II.

Entrepreneur

After the Second World War, together with his father and brothers, he devoted himself to rebuilding the family's office furniture and machine sales, mainly in Frankfurt am Main . In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, he was active in a variety of honorary positions and supervisory boards, including honorary labor judge, commercial judge and honorary consul of the Kingdom of Nepal in Frankfurt. For his services he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st Class . Since 1969 he was Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .

Ocean sailors

Germania VI (2008) off Kiel

After the Second World War, Hans Viktor Howaldt sailed for the House of Krupp, just like his father did in the sailing competitions of the 1936 Olympics. As the skipper of the Germania V and later the Germania VI of the owner Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , he gained an outstanding ocean-going experience in Germany after the Second World War with the resumption of ocean sailing in 1955. With the Germania V he took part in the 1960 transatlantic regatta from Bermuda to Skagen . With Germania VI , which still sails for the Krupp Foundation today , he sailed the transatlantic regattas in 1966 (Bermuda – Skagen) and 1968 (Bermuda – Travemünde ).

Works

  • trans atlantic under colorful sails . Delius, Klasing & Co., Bielefeld 1962.

literature

  • Svante Domizlaff, Alexander Rost: Germania - The yachts of the house of Krupp. Delius-Klasing Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3768818407 .
  • Wolfgang Howaldt: The Howaldt family from Löbejün in the Saalkkreis, Bandell, Stuttgart 1972, pp. 102-103.
  • Alexander Rost: Under the red griffin . In: Die Zeit , 32/1967.

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personal data
SURNAME Howaldt, Hans Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, entrepreneur, offshore regatta sailor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1998
Place of death Königstein im Taunus