August Howaldt
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August Ferdinand Howaldt (born 23 October 1809 in Braunschweig, died 4 August 1883 in Kiel) was a German engineer and ship builder.
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.
The German sculptor Georg Ferdinand Howaldt was his brother.
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