page_title: Hermann Blohm
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Hermann Blohm / Life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hamburg - Blohm &amp; Voss
context_page_description: Hermann Blohm was a German shipbuilder and company founder of Blohm+Voss.
context_section_description: His father was German merchant Georg Blohm from Lübeck (1801-1878). He studied at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
  Togehter 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,
  On December 29, 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 company Blohm+Voss.
caption: Pincerno - Blohm & Voss 1877
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