Hans Howaldt

Hans Howaldt
November 12, 1888 - September 6, 1970

Place of birth	Kiel
Place of death	Bad Schwartau
Service/branch	Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine
Years of service	1907 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945
Rank	Kapitän zur See
Unit	Flandern Flottille, Zeebrugge, and in 1939 a unit of minelayers in the Baltic Sea, including Kattegat and Skagerak
Commands held	UC 4, UB 40 and UB 107 Minelayer Hansestadt Danzig
Battles/wars	Battle of the Atlantic (1914-1918)
Awards	Iron Cross House Order of Hohenzollern Pour le Mérite Hanseatic Cross War Merit Cross
Relations	His Grandfather August Howaldt was the builder of the first German submarine Brandtaucher.

Sailing
Olympic medal record
Bronze	1936 Berlin	8 metre class

Hans Howaldt (November 12, 1888 - September 6, 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.