Hermann Blohm

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Adolph Hermann Blohm (born June 23, 1848 in Lübeck ; † March 12, 1930 in Hamburg ) was a German engineer and co-founder of the Blohm & Voss shipyard .

origin

Hermann Blohm was born in Lübeck as the youngest son of the merchant Georg Blohm, who had become wealthy in the Caribbean and Venezuela . The Mayor of Lübeck Georg Blohm was his great-grandfather. Early on, he wanted to build iron steamships based on the English model.

Career

He began his professional career as an apprentice at Kollmann und Scheteling Maschinenfabrik ( Lübeck mechanical engineering company ). After completing his training, he went to the C. Waltjen & Co. shipyard in Bremen to deepen his technical and practical knowledge. He graduated from the Polytechnic School in Hanover , the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Royal Prussian Trade Institute in 1872.

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Grave slab family grave cemetery Ohlsdorf

After this time, Hermann Blohm worked for a short time (1872 to 1873) at the Tischbein shipyard in Rostock and at the Reiherstieg shipyard in Hamburg as an engineer. In 1873 he went to England to complete his knowledge as a shipbuilding engineer in various engineering offices and shipyards. Hermann Blohm returned to Lübeck in 1876 with the intention of founding a shipyard for iron steamers on the Trave . In his opinion, mechanical engineering and shipbuilding belonged together. Therefore, he tried to work with his old training company Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft (LMG). But an agreement with the main shareholders of LMG did not come about because their financial ideas seemed excessive. The Lübeck authorities were also not very accommodating. For this reason Hermann Blohm went to Hamburg, where he met Ernst Voss a short time later .

Together with him he founded in 1877, with the help of a loan from his father Georg Blohm, who was skeptical about the matter, for more than 500,000 gold marks , the later global company Blohm + Voss , which first built ships and then aircraft , especially flying boats , that were far ahead of their time . The first order in Hamburg was the Bark Parsifal built for F. Laeisz , a Flying P-Liner delivered in 1882 .

Blohm attended the conference in Streit's Hotel in Hamburg on December 29, 1884. The representatives of eight German shipyards present there founded the “Verein deutscher Schiffswerften e. V. “(today VSM ) and went down in German shipbuilding history. 12 companies and companies signed a petition concerning the construction of ships and ship steam engines in domestic shipyards with reference to the submission of subsidies for overseas steamship lines, which the Reichstag received .

There were civilian ships and aircraft, but also military ones in the course of rearmament after the First World War . As a leading representative of various employers' and industrial associations, Hermann Blohm was also a relentless opponent of the labor movement . In 1917, Hermann Blohm and his son Rudolf Blohm , together with other representatives of the Hamburg leadership, called for the establishment of a Hamburg regional association of the German Fatherland Party .

In 1907 he was awarded the Grashof Memorial Medal by the Association of German Engineers .

Hermann Blohm was buried on the grave of his family in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square Q 25.

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  1. ↑ This was only achieved by Henry Koch on December 1, 1882 with the opening of his shipyard for iron ships.
  2. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 27, No. 3, edition of January 11, 1885, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Blohm, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blohm, Adolph Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1930
Place of death Hamburg