Hermann Blohm (born 23 June 1848 in
Lübeck
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; died 12 March 1930 in
Hamburg
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shipbuilder
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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 ...
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Life
His father was German merchant
Georg Blohm from Lübeck (1801-1878). He studied at
ETH Zurich
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in Switzerland.
Together with
Ernst Voss he founded on 5 April 1877 German company
Blohm & Voss
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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
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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
Walther is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a German form of Walter, which is derived from the Old High German ''Walthari'', containing the elements ''wald'' -"power", "brightness" or "forest" and ''hari'' -"warrior".
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(* 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.
External links
References
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1930 deaths
1848 births
German company founders
German industrialists
19th-century German businesspeople
20th-century German businesspeople
Businesspeople from Lübeck
German naval architects