Rudolf Blohm
Rudolf Blohm (born September 2, 1885 in Hamburg ; † October 7, 1979 there ) was a Hamburg entrepreneur and manager of the Blohm & Voss shipyard and a member of the State Council.
Life
In 1917, together with his father Hermann Blohm, he was one of the Hamburg co-founders of the German Fatherland Party , which fought peace efforts in the Reichstag and tried to rekindle the enthusiasm for war in 1914.
At the end of 1918 he and his brother Walther Blohm took over the management of the shipyard.
On October 11, 1931, he took part in the Harzburg conference of the “national opposition” against the Weimar Republic .
In 1933 he became president of the employers' association Gesamtmetall , which dissolved itself that same year and became part of the German Labor Front (DAF). Robert Blohm took over the management of the iron and metal office in the DAF. The Blohm brothers welcomed the new regime, which brought their company numerous orders, including the construction of the sailing training ship Gorch Fock (1933), the KdF passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff (1937) and the battleship Bismarck (1939). In August 1933 he was appointed a member of the newly formed Hamburg State Council.
In the spring of 1942, Blohm, as a councilor of state, became chairman of the main shipbuilding committee , a civil institution of German industry that planned and coordinated the work of the shipyards on orders from the navy on behalf of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition . State Councilor Blohm held this position until the summer of 1943 and was then replaced by Otto Merker - while the competencies and tasks of the main shipbuilding committee were redefined at the same time .
1945–54 Blohm fought with all means against the dismantling of the shipyard ordered by the British occupying forces . He hid several machines in Hamburg and kept many of them on the dismantling lists, which is why he - and five other people - were sentenced to imprisonment by the British.
In 1954, together with partner Phoenix Rheinrohr AG , he began expanding his shipyard again and retired from active business life in 1966.
Web links
- Die Zeit September 6, 1975 ( Memento from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Obituary, Der Spiegel 42/1979 (The text of the obituary is without interruption after the obituary by Jaja Prakasch Narajan).
- Newspaper article about Rudolf Blohm in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Köhler : Hitler left - they stayed. The German post-war in 16 examples. KVV specifically, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930786-04-4 , p. 12
- ↑ Eberhard Rössler : History of German U-Boat Building Volume 1 , Bernard & Graefe Verlag Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-86047-153-8 , page 221
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blohm, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and head of the Blohm & Voss shipyard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1979 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |