Ernst Voss


Ernst Voss was a German shipbuilder and co-company founder of German company Blohm+Voss.

Life

Since 1863 Voss studied in Zürich, Switzerland engineering. Afer his university studies he worked in England for company Gwynne und R.Elder & Co. Togehter with Hermann Blohm 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,