August Ferdinand Howaldt (born 23 October 1809 in Braunschweig, died 4 August 1883 in Kiel) was a German engineer and ship builder. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC - Year 1809 ( MDCCCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Braunschweig, known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245810 people (as of 31 December 2007 located in Lower Saxony, Germany. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common For the city in the United States, see Kiel Wisconsin. For the name see Kiel (name.
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Biography
Born in Braunschweig, the son of the silversmith David Ferdinand Howaldt, with whom he got his first practice working in metal, he made an apprenticeship in Hamburg and became a practical mechanicus. Braunschweig, known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245810 people (as of 31 December 2007 located in Lower Saxony, Germany. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany
In 1838 he moved to Kiel, where he married Emma Diederichsen. In Kiel he founded together with the Kiel entrepreneur Johann Schweffel the "Maschinenbauanstalt Schweffel & Howaldt", a company initially building boilers for industry and the new railroad companies in between Hamburg and Kiel and agricultural machinery for the surrounding estates in Holstein. Holstein (ˈhɔlʃtain ( Low German: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia)
In 1849 Schweffel & Howaldt built its first steam engine for naval purposes for the Von der Tann, a gunboat for the small navy of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Brandtaucher, the first German incendiary diver or submarine designed by Wilhelm Bauer. Von der Tann was a steam-powered 120 ton gunboat built in 1849 at Conradi shipyards in Kiel for the small navy of Schleswig-Holstein, the first propeller-driven is the northernmost of the 16 ''Bundesländer'' in Germany. The former English name was Sleswick-Holsatia the Danish name is Brandtaucher was a Submersible designed by the German Inventor and Engineer Wilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability Wilhelm Bauer ( December 23, 1822 - June 20,1875 was the German Inventor and Engineer, who built several hand-powered The Brandtaucher is today an exhibt of the German Forces Military History Museum in Dresden. The Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr ( German for "Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr " together with the Luftwaffenmuseum der Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Drježdźany is the Capital city of the German Schweffel & Howaldt also built two tugs 1860 and 1864. When he passed his company to his sons Georg, Bernhard and Hermann Howaldt, who continued in 1879 under the firm Gebrüder Howaldt. The firm merged in 1889 with Georg's shipyard in Kiel to become Howaldtswerke AG in Kiel, today known as HDW. Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (often abbreviated HDW) is a German Shipbuilding company headquartered in Kiel.
The German sculptor Georg Ferdinand Howaldt was his brother. Georg Ferdinand Howaldt ( 8 April 1802 &ndash 19 January 1883) was a German Sculptor.
References
- Christian Ostersehlte: Von Howaldt zu HDW. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-782209168
- August Ferdinand Howaldt in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 201 ff. ISBN 3529025607
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