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

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Life

His father was German merchant Georg Blohm 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

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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

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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.

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