Ernst Voss (January 12, 1842 in

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– August 1, 1920 in

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) was a German shipbuilder and co-company founder of German company

Blohm+Voss Blohm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Hans Blohm C.M. (born 1927), photographer and author *Hermann Blohm (1848–1930), German businessman and co-founder of German company Blohm+Voss *Irma Blohm (1909–1997), German politi ...

Life

Since 1863 Voss studied in

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engineering. After his university studies he worked in England for company ''Gwynne und R.Elder & Co.'' Together with

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 fo ...

he founded on 5 April 1877 German company

Blohm & Voss Blohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß etc., is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. Founded in Hamburg in 1877 to specialise in steel-hulled ships, its most famous product was the World War II battle ...

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

.NDR.de: Blohm + Voss: Mut und Können in einem Pott (german)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Voss, Ernst German company founders 19th-century German businesspeople 20th-century German businesspeople German industrialists 1842 births 1920 deaths German naval architects German shipbuilders Blohm+Voss