# Hermann Blohm

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**Adolph Hermann Blohm** (23 June 1848 – 12 March 1930) was a German [shipbuilder](/source/Shipbuilder) and company founder of [Blohm+Voss](/source/Blohm%2BVoss).

## Life

Blohm was born in [Lübeck](/source/L%C3%BCbeck) to merchant [Georg Blohm](/source/Georg_Blohm). He studied at [ETH Zurich](/source/ETH_Zurich) in Switzerland. Together with [Ernst Voss](/source/Ernst_Voss) he founded on 5 April 1877 the German company [Blohm & Voss](/source/Blohm_%26_Voss) as a general partnership, to build steel-hulled ships. They established a shipyard on the island of [Kuhwerder](/source/Kuhwerder), near the Free and Hanseatic City of [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg).[1]

On 29 December 1884, he became a founding member of the German organisation *Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik* in Hamburg. Blohm was married to Emmi Alwine Westphal. His sons [Rudolf](/source/Rudolf_Blohm) and [Walther](/source/Walther_Blohm) worked in the company Blohm+Voss.[2] He died in Hamburg.

## 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, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4, p. 45–47.
- Christian Ostersehlte: Blohm, Hermann, in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, edition 11, Neumünster 2000, p. 40–43 ISBN 3-529-02640-2, corrected ISBN 3-529-02640-9.
- Hans Joachim Schröder: Hermann Blohm. Gründer der Werft Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 2011 (Mäzene für Wissenschaft, edition 10), ISBN 978-3-937816-85-2.
- Friedrich-Christian Stahl: Blohm, Adolph Hermann. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). edition 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, p. 312 f.

## External links

- [Deutsche Biographie.de: Hermann Blohm (German)](https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd139644857.html#ndbcontent)

## References

1. [NDR.de: Blohm + Voss: Mut und Können in einem Pott (german)](https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Blohm-Voss-Mut-und-Koennen-in-einem-Pott,blohmundvoss122.html)

1. [Deutsche Biographie.de: Hermann Blohm (German)](https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd139644857.html#ndbcontent)

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