Hermann Blohm

Adolph Hermann Blohm (23 June 1848 – 12 March 1930) 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 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,

Pincerno - Blohm & Voss 1877

Graveyard of Hermann Blohm at Ohlsdorf Cemetery

On 29 December 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 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, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4, p. 45–47.
• Christian Ostersehlte: Blohm, Hermann, in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, edition 11, Neumünster 2000, p. 40–43 ISBN 3-529-02640-2, corrected ISBN 3-529-02640-9.
• Hans Joachim Schröder: Hermann Blohm. Gründer der Werft Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 2011 (Mäzene für Wissenschaft, edition 10), ISBN 978-3-937816-85-2.
• Friedrich-Christian Stahl: Blohm, Adolph Hermann. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). edition 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, p. 312 f.

External links

• Deutsche Biographie.de: Hermann Blohm (German)