Hermann Blohm
Adolph Hermann Blohm was a German shipbuilder and company founder of Blohm+Voss.
Life
Blohm was born in Lübeck to merchant Georg Blohm. He studied at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Together with Ernst Voss he founded on 5 April 1877 the German company Blohm & Voss as a general partnership, to build steel-hulled ships. They established a shipyard on the island of Kuhwerder, near the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.On 29 December 1884, he became a founding member of the German organisation Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik in Hamburg. Blohm was married to Emmi Alwine Westphal. His sons Rudolf and Walther worked in the company Blohm+Voss. He died in Hamburg.
Awards
- 1907: ''Grashof-Denkmünze''
Literature
- Erich Gercken: Die Lübecker Familie Blohm. In: Der Wagen 1964, p. 123–131.
- Sibylle Küttner: Blohm, Hermann. In: Hamburgische Biografie. Band 3, Wallstein, Göttingen 2006,, p. 45–47.
- Christian Ostersehlte: Blohm, Hermann, in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, edition 11, Neumünster 2000, p. 40–43, corrected.
- Hans Joachim Schröder: Hermann Blohm. Gründer der Werft Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 2011,.
- Friedrich-Christian Stahl: Blohm, Adolph Hermann. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie. edition 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955,, p. 312 f.