Adolph Hermann Blohm (born 23 June 1848 in
Lübeck; died 12 March 1930 in
Hamburg) was a German
shipbuilder and company founder of
Blohm+Voss.
Life
His father was German merchant
Georg Blohm from Lübeck (1801–1878). 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,
[1]
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 the company Blohm+Voss.[2]
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,
ISBN3-8353-0081-4, p. 45–47.
Christian Ostersehlte: Blohm, Hermann, in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, edition 11, Neumünster 2000, p. 40–43
ISBN3-529-02640-2, corrected
ISBN3-529-02640-9.
Hans Joachim Schröder: Hermann Blohm. Gründer der Werft Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 2011 (Mäzene für Wissenschaft, edition 10),
ISBN978-3-937816-85-2.
Friedrich-Christian Stahl: Blohm, Adolph Hermann. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). edition 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955,
ISBN3-428-00183-4, p. 312 f.
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