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.
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]