Hermann Blohm (born 23 June 1848 in

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; died 12 March 1930 in

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) was a German

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and company founder of

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 * Linn Blohm (born 1992), Swedish hand ...

Life

His father was German merchant

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from Lübeck (1801-1878). He studied at

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in Switzerland. Together with Ernst Voss 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

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 (* 1885) and Walther (* 1887) worked in company Blohm+Voss.Deutsche Biographie.de: Hermann Blohm (German)
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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 (Mäzene für Wissenschaft, edition 10), . * Friedrich-Christian Stahl: Blohm, Adolph Hermann. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). edition 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, , p. 312 f.

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