Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875-1951) · Germany · Scientists · Died at 75
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Something wrong?He drew the curves of the Beetle and the bloodlines of the Panzer VIII Maus. Porsche's engineering spanned the century's most familiar car and some of its heaviest war machines - a range that still pulls the attention wherever his name appears.
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Birth house of Ferdinand Porsche in Vratislavice nad Nisou
The Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid
Adolf Hitler laying the foundation stone of the KDF-Wagen (Volkswagen) factory near Fallersleben (Wolfsburg) on 26 May 1938. Ferdinand Porsche at far right.
Porsche was heavily involved in the production of advanced tanks, such as the Tiger I tank.
The Porsche-designed Schwimmwagen is the most-produced amphibious car in history.
Scale model of the Porsche Type 12Awards
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Born in 1875, Porsche came up through the turn-of-the-century auto industry and built the first gasoline-electric hybrid, the Lohner-Porsche, before most people owned a car. He designed the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK and the Auto Union racing cars that dominated Grand Prix circuits. In the 1930s he created the Volkswagen Beetle under contract from the Nazi state, then joined the party and became an honorary SS officer. During World War II he engineered advanced tanks - the Elefant self-propelled gun, the VK 45.01, the 188-ton Maus - and contributed to the V-1 flying bomb program, earning the War Merit Cross and the German National Prize. He founded Porsche AG after the war and died in 1951, two years before the first production 356 left the factory. In 1999 he was named Car Engineer of the Century.
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