!!!Porsche, Ferdinand, geb. 1875

b. Vratislavice nad Nisou, Czech Republic (then Maffersdorf), Sept. 3, 1875, 
d. Stuttgart (Germany), Jan. 30, 1951, automobile engineer, technical 
designer at Volkswagen, father of Ferdinand Anton Ernst (Ferry)  
Porsche and Louise  Pieëch. >From 1898-1905 at the  Lohner-Werke 
company in Floridsdorf, Vienna, where he developed the "Lohner-P." 
with a wheelhub motor (1900 at the Paris World Exhibition). 1906-1923 
technical director of the Austro-Daimler Motoren AG car company in 
Wiener Neustadt. From 1908 also built aeroplane engines, during World 
War I traction engines for heavy mortars and 1921 the "Sascha" sports 
car. Afterwards technical designer for Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart 
(racing cars and lorries); 1929-1931 chief technical engineer for the 
Steyr company, where he constructed the "Steyr 30" and "Steyr 100" 
cars. From 1931 had his own construction office again in Stuttgart, 
where he designed racing cars, models for Zuendapp and the NSU-Werke 
and started to design a cheap Volkswagen car. His plans found favour 
with the National Socialists and the car factory in Wolfsburg was 
constructed from 1937 by the "German Labour Front" ("Deutsche 
Arbeitsfront") under his technical direction. He did not agree with 
the military exploitation of the idea and moved his production plants 
to Gmuend (Carinthia) during the war, where he at first constructed 
the "P. Sports car", which from 1950 was produced in Zuffenhausen, 
Stuttgart. Managed the factory in Gmuend until his death.

!Literature
F. Mueller, F. P., 1999.



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