Rank Kapitan zur See Children Hans Viktor Howaldt Name Hans Howaldt Grandparents August Howaldt | Role Mariner Parents Georg Howaldt | |
Years of service 1907–1918 and 1939–1945 Unit Flandern Flottille, Zeebrugge, and in 1939 a unit of minelayers in the Baltic Sea, including Kattegat and Skagerrak Olympic medals Sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre | ||
Great-grandparents David Ferdinand Howaldt | ||
Hans Howaldt (12 November 1888, Kiel – 6 September 1970) was a successful and highly decorated German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I and also active in World War II. By the end of World War I he was promoted Kapitänleutnant.
As a sportsman Hans Howaldt won Bronze in the international 8 Metre class sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics on the Bay of Kiel as skipper of Germania III, a keelboat designed and built by Abeking & Rasmussen and owned by crew-member Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.
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