Hermann Blohm
Hermann Blohm was a German shipbuilder and company founder of Blohm+Voss.Life
His father was German merchant Georg Blohm from Lübeck. He studied at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Togehter with Ernst Voss he founded on 5 April 1877 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 December 29, 1884 he was founding member of German organisation Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik in Hamburg.
Blohm was married with Emmi Alwine Westphal. His sons Rudolf and Walther worked in company Blohm+Voss.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.
