"Ferdinand Porsche Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, several other important developments and Porsche automobiles. An important contributor to the German war effort during World War II, Porsche was involved in the production of advanced tanks such as the VK 4501 (P), Tiger I, Tiger II, Elefant, and Panzer VIII Maus, as well as other weapon systems, including the V-1 flying bomb. Porsche was a member of the"
"Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (19 September 1909 – 27 March 1998), mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Ferdinand Porsche, Sr. was also a renowned automobile engineer and founder of Volkswagen and Porsche. His nephew, Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, is the longtime chairman of Volkswagen Group, and his son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, was involved in the design of the 911. Ferry Porsche's life was intimately connected with that of his father, Ferdinand Porsche, Sr., who began sharing his knowledge of mechanical engineering"
"already in his childhood. With his father he opened a bureau of automobile design, in Stuttgart in 1931. They worked together to fulfill their country's National Socialist regime's needs and they met Adolf Hitler at many business events. [source?] The Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche, Sr. and a team of engineers, including Ferry Porsche. After World War II, while his father remained imprisoned in France being accused of war crimes, Ferry Porsche ran their company. Aided by the postwar Volkswagen enterprise, he created the first cars that were uniquely associated with the company. Despite the political-economical adversities of"
"Beetle. Ferdinand Porsche, a designer much admired by Hitler, got to connect his name to the ""People's Car"" (Volkswagen) the regime needed to appease the masses, to which the real inspiration is the Hanomag 2/10 PS from 1925, which invalidates the theory of inspiration in the design of Josef Ganz. While the Volkswagen Beetle was produced in its millions after World War II, the name of Josef Ganz was largely forgotten. In 2004, Dutch journalist Paul Schilperoord started researching the life and work of Josef Ganz. He has unearthed many new facts and has published a new book and is"
"that ultimately led to the Tiger I and the Tiger II. However, not all this work was wasted, as the chassis Porsche designed for the Tiger I was used as the base for the Elefant tank destroyer. Porsche also developed the Maus super-heavy tank in the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes. At the end of World War II in 1945, the Volkswagen factory at KdF-Stadt fell to the British. Ferdinand lost his position as Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen, and Ivan Hirst, a British Army Major, was put in charge of the factory. (In"
"Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships; he founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Ferdinand was the scion of a . Zepelin, the family's eponymous hometown, is a small community outside the town of Bützow in Mecklenburg. Ferdinand was the son of Württemberg Minister and Hofmarschall Friedrich Jerôme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (1807–1886) and his wife Amélie Françoise Pauline (born Macaire d'Hogguer) (1816–1852). Ferdinand spent his childhood with his sister and brother at their Girsberg manor near Constance,"
"the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Porsche produced a heavy tank design in 1942, the VK4501 also known as ""Tiger (P)"". Due to the complex nature of the drive system, a competing design from Henschel was chosen for production instead. Ninety chassis that had already been built were converted into self-propelled anti-tank guns; these were put into service in 1943 as the Panzerjäger Tiger (P) and known by the nickname ""Ferdinand"". The Ferdinand was driven by a hybrid electric powertrain, and was armed with a long barrel version of the 88mm Flak cannon. The most common reason for"
"The latter used the Crochat-Colardeau system of Henry Crochat and Emmanuel Colardeau. This allowed the left and right traction motors to run at different speeds for steering and is detailed in patent US1416611. The 1936 prototype Char G1P was also designed with a petrol–electric drive. Ferdinand Porsche was the main developer of these drive trains for military vehicles in Nazi Germany. He created the VK 3001 (P) prototype and VK 4501, of which 91 units were produced as the Porsche Tiger. They were later converted into Ferdinand, and subsequently Elefant, tank destroyers. Another noteworthy design was the 188-tonne Porsche type"
"engineer Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise the design. The influence on Porsche's design of other contemporary cars, such as the Tatra V570, and the work of Josef Ganz remains a subject of dispute. The result was the first Volkswagen, and one of the first rear-engined cars since the Brass Era. With 21,529,464 produced, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single platform ever made. Although designed in the 1930s, the Beetle was only produced in significant numbers starting from 1945 (civilian production had been put on hold during the Second World War),"
"as to the ""first"" Porsche automobile, but the 356 is considered by Porsche to be its first production model. The 356 was created by Ferdinand ""Ferry"" Porsche (son of Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the German company), who founded the Austrian company with his sister, Louise. Like its cousin, the Volkswagen Beetle (which Ferdinand Porsche Sr. had designed), the 356 is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, rear-engine, rear-wheel drive car with unitized pan and body construction. The chassis was a completely new design as was the 356's body which was designed by Porsche employee Erwin Komenda, while certain mechanical components including the engine"
"as the Porsche Type 60, then the Volkswagen Type 1, and commonly called the Volkswagen Beetle. This vehicle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche's consulting firm, and the company was backed by the support of Adolf Hitler. On 16 September 1938, Gezuvor was renamed ""Volkswagenwerk GmbH"" (""Volkswagen Factory limited liability company""). Shortly after the factory near Fallersleben was completed, World War II started and the plant primarily manufactured the military Kübelwagen (Porsche Type 82) and the related amphibious Schwimmwagen (Type 166), both of which were derived from the Volkswagen. Only a small number of Type 60 Volkswagens were made during this"
"died in Salzburg, Austria on April 5, 2012, aged 76. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012), nicknamed ""Butzi"", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. While his grandfather and father were both engineers, he was more involved in working out the appearance of a product. He never thought of himself as an artist or designer, but more as a technically talented craftsman in shaping. After attending the Waldorf School in Stuttgart he began studying industrial design in Ulm, Germany."
"of the British rock group Led Zeppelin derives from his airship as well. His granddaughter Countess Eva von Zeppelin once threatened to sue them for illegal use of their family name while they were performing in Copenhagen. In 1975, Zeppelin was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame. Works cited Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships; he founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Ferdinand was the scion of a . Zepelin, the family's eponymous hometown,"
"Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen company magazine dubbed him ""The British Major who saved Volkswagen"".) On 15 December of that year, Ferdinand was arrested for war crimes, but not tried. During his 20-month imprisonment, Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry Porsche, decided to build his own car, because he could not find an existing one that he wanted to buy. He also had to steer the company through some of its most difficult days until his father's release in August 1947. The first models of what was to become the 356 were built in a small sawmill in Gmünd, Austria. The prototype car was"
"Gräf & Stift Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. Founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm Stift. Before the Second World War, the company was a well-known manufacturer of luxury automobiles, including the Double Phaeton that carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, when they were assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914. By the 1930s Gräf & Stift had begun making trucks and buses, and it ceased car manufacturing in 1938. The company merged"
"blackmail of the automotive industry, at the instigation of those that he had ferociously criticized. He was eventually released, but his career was systematically destroyed and his life endangered. He fled Germany in June 1934 – the same month Adolf Hitler gave Ferdinand Porsche the brief for designing a mass-producible car for a consumer price of 1,000 Reichsmark. Production of the Standard Superior ended in 1935. The Standard company was forbidden by the Nazis from using the term 'Volkswagen'. The Volkswagen Beetle would be the longest-lasting icon of this 1930s era. Adolf Hitler admired the ideals exemplified by the Ford"
"Ferdinand Brandner Ferdinand Brandner (17 November 1903 – 20 December 1986) was an Austrian aerospace designer, an S.S. Standartenführer in wartime Germany, and was responsible for the most powerful turboprop engine ever built, the Kuznetsov NK-12, while interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II. Brandner was born 17 November 1903 to Sudeten German parents in Vienna, his father being a low-ranking government official. He served in the Freikorps Oberland in 1921, and went on to study in Vienna, earning a degree in engineering in 1925. He began designing diesel engines for locomotives, working at the"
"most influential car in the 20th century, the Type 1 came fourth, after the Ford Model T, the Mini, and the Citroën DS. The originating concept behind the first Volkswagen, the company, and its name, is the notion of a ""people’s car"" – a car affordable and practical enough for common people to own. Hence the name, which is literally ""people's car"" in German, pronounced ). Although the Volkswagen was mainly the brainchild of Ferdinand Porsche and Adolf Hitler, the idea is much older than Nazism, and existed since mass-production of cars was introduced. Contrary to the United States, where"
"who built the first fully automatic digital computer. Such German inventors, engineers and industrialists as Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Otto Lilienthal, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Hugo Junkers and Karl Benz helped shape modern automotive and air transportation technology. German institutions like the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are the largest contributor to ESA. Aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun developed the first space rocket at Peenemünde and later on was a prominent member of NASA and developed the Saturn V Moon rocket. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's work in the domain of electromagnetic radiation was pivotal to the development of modern telecommunication. Research institutions"
"Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012), nicknamed ""Butzi"", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. While his grandfather and father were both engineers, he was more involved in working out the appearance of a product. He never thought of himself as an artist or designer, but more as a technically talented craftsman in shaping. After attending the Waldorf School in Stuttgart he began studying industrial design in Ulm, Germany. After a year he was dismissed by the examination board,"
"by the International Olympic Committee. The KdF's most ambitious programme for German workers was set up for production of an affordable car, the ""KdF-Wagen"", which later became the Volkswagen Beetle (""Volkswagen"" being German for ""People's Car""). This was originally a project undertaken at Hitler's request by the carmaker Ferdinand Porsche. When the German car industry was unable to meet Hitler's demand that the Volkswagen be sold at 1,000 Reichsmarks or less, the project was taken over by the German Labour Front (""Deutsche Arbeitsfront"", DAF). Now working for the DAF, Porsche built a new Volkswagen factory at Fallersleben, at a huge"
"one place for the first time. Elefant The Elefant (German for ""elephant"") was a heavy ""Jagdpanzer"" (tank destroyer) used by German Wehrmacht Panzerjäger during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand, after its designer Ferdinand Porsche, using tank hulls produced for the Tiger I tank design abandoned in favour of a Henschel design. In 1944, after modification of the existing vehicles, they were renamed ""Elefant"". The official German designation was Panzerjäger Tiger"" (P) and the ordnance inventory designation was Sd. Kfz."" 184. Porsche GmbH had manufactured about 100 chassis for their unsuccessful proposal for"
"Elefant The Elefant (German for ""elephant"") was a heavy ""Jagdpanzer"" (tank destroyer) used by German Wehrmacht Panzerjäger during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand, after its designer Ferdinand Porsche, using tank hulls produced for the Tiger I tank design abandoned in favour of a Henschel design. In 1944, after modification of the existing vehicles, they were renamed ""Elefant"". The official German designation was Panzerjäger Tiger"" (P) and the ordnance inventory designation was Sd. Kfz."" 184. Porsche GmbH had manufactured about 100 chassis for their unsuccessful proposal for the Tiger tank, the ""Porsche Tiger"","
"currently working on a documentary. Tatra sued Ferdinand Porsche for using the designs from the Tatra V570, T87 and T97 to make the Volkswagen Type 1, but the lawsuit was dropped when Hitler said he would ""settle the matter"". After the war, the lawsuit was reopened and in 1967, Volkswagen compensated Tatra in the amount of 3,000,000 Deutsche Mark over the dispute. Maikäfer Maikäfer was the nickname of an automobile prototype, built in 1931 by German engineer Josef Ganz at Adler. Josef Ganz, an independent engineer and editor-in-chief of ""Motor-Kritik"" magazine, was assigned by Adler in December 1930 as a"
"the design of the Tiger tank, initial testing of the V1/V2 rockets, and provided much research data on improving fuel consumption. At the conclusion of World War II Eberan-Eberhorst fled Dresden, in the Soviet occupied sector of defeated Germany. In 1947, in an old sawmill in Gmünd, Austria, Ferdinand Porsche’s son Ferry and Eberan-Eberhorst started work on project 356, which evolved into the famous Porsche 356 sports car. Later, the Italian Piero Dusio decided to build racing cars, bringing in the engineers Dante Giacosa and Giovanni Savonuzzi from Fiat and Piero Taruffi to manage the racing team. When the team"
"himself driving a front-wheel drive hybrid. It was later upgraded with more powerful engines from Daimler and Panhard, which proved to be enough to gain more speed records. In 1905 Porsche was awarded the ""Pötting prize"" as Austria's most outstanding automotive engineer. In 1902 he was drafted into military service. He served as a chauffeur to Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the crown prince of Austria whose assassination sparked World War I a decade later. In 1906, Austro-Daimler recruited Porsche as their chief designer. Porsche's best known Austro-Daimler car was designed for the Prince Henry Trial in 1910, named after"
"Arbeitsdorf Arbeitsdorf (""work-village"") was a concentration camp established by the Nazis in Wolfsburg 1942. In 1936, an Austrian car engineer by the name of Ferdinand Porsche designed a prototype of a car that would be affordable enough for all Germans to buy. He then showed his idea to the then dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Hitler liked his idea and ordered the manufacture of the car which was known as the KDF-Wagen or later known as the Volkswagen vehicle. With Hitler's approval, Porsche and his business partner Albert Speer set up a factory in Fallersleben, a town northeast of the"
"racing teams, Daimler-Benz and Auto Union, were also used for political propaganda by the National Socialists. They overwhelmingly dominated all the competitions of the 1930s. In 1938, Ferdinand Porsche senior left the Auto Union racing team when his contract expired. During the war, the Porsche family was completely dedicated to designing motorized weaponry, like tanks, for Nazi Germany. To avoid the aerial bombings of Stuttgart, Ferry Porsche was forced to bring some of the design departments to Austria, to two locations, Gmünd/Carinthia and Zell am See, where the family had a farm. Nonetheless, he stayed personally in Stuttgart, managing the"
"July 1937, months before the ""Anschluss"", he joined the NSDAP of Nazi Germany. He joined the SS in 1944. In June 1941, Piëch took over as plant manager at the plant where Volkswagen were produced in Wolfsburg. He succeeded Otto Dyckhoff as one of the managers of Volkswagenwerk GmbH, along with Ferdinand Porsche and Bodo Lafferentz, which decades later would become the current Volkswagen Group. As Ferdinand Porsche's right-hand man, Piëch became involved in the adaptation of the Wolfsburg plant for the manufacture of weapons, like the V-1 flying bomb. Under his leadership, 20,000 forced laborers from Poland, the USSR,"
"FIFA World Cup in Germany. Gottlieb Daimler's motto was ""Das Beste oder nichts"" (""The best or nothing at all""; ""Nothing but the best""). Mercedes-Benz adopted this motto as their slogan in 2010. Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum fueled engine. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose"
"1898, Ferdinand Porsche designed his first ever car and named it the Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, C.2 Phaeton model or ""P1"" for short. The short form of the car ""P1"" came from Ferdinand Porsche who made sure that he would be credited for his design and work of the vehicle, hence he engraved the code ""P1"" which stood for Porsche number 1, onto all of the key components of the vehicle. The P1 was originally created for a car maker company by the name of Jacob Lohner. Ludwig Lohner, the owner of Jacob Lohner became convinced after seeing Ferdinand Porsche that"
"Anton Piëch. With Rosenberger's financial backing, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and Dr. Anton Piëch started the company with some former co-workers including chief designer Karl Rabe. Rosenberger was also instrumental in the creation of the Auto Union concern, being credited with influencing Porsche's choice of a mid-engined design for the Auto Union racing cars. Despite Rosenberger's contribution to the development of German automobiles and German auto racing when Hitler came to power in Germany Adolf Rosenberger, a Jew, was arrested for ""Rassenschande"" (racial crimes), and imprisoned at KZ Schloss Kislau near Karlsruhe. He was released, supposedly due to unconfirmed efforts on"
"Fred David Friedrich W. ""Fred"" David, an Austrian Jew, who became the most significant aircraft designer for the Australian aircraft industry during World War Two; having been one of only a few people to have worked for both sides (Allies and Axis powers) in designing aircraft used during the war. David's most famous aircraft was the CAC Boomerang used by the Royal Australian Air Force during the Pacific War. As an Austrian Jew who had recently arrived in Australia in 1939 as a refugee, David was technically an enemy alien, so he had to report to the local Police Station"