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August Howaldt

Model of the Brandtaucher

Born as son of the silversmith David Ferdinand Howaldt, with whom he got his first practice working in metall, he made an apprenticeship in Hamburg and became a practical mechanicus. 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. 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. The Brandtaucher is today an exhibt of the German Forces Military History Museum in Dresden. 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 was merged in 1889 with Georg's shipyard in Kiel to become Howaldtswerke AG in Kiel, today known as HDW. Alster Lake at dusk Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ... Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low German: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe, Eider, and the Schlei firth. ... 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 gunboat in the world. ... Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ... HMS Vanguard, a Vanguard-class nuclear ballistic missile (SSBN) submarine HMCS Windsor, a Victoria-class diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine HMAS Rankin, a Collins-class diesel-electric guided missile (SSG) submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate... Wilhelm Bauer Wilhelm Bauer (December 23, 1822 - June 20, 1875) built several hand-powered submarines. ... From left to right: Brühls Terrace; the Hofkirche and the castle; the Semper Opera House. ... Howaldtswerke is a German shipyard founded 1838 in Kiel. ...

The German sculptor Georg Ferdinand Howaldt was his brother. Prof. ...