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- Adolf Hitler
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- Aluminum
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- Anton Piëch
- Audi
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- Austria
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- Auto Union
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- Bernd Rosemeyer
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Austria
Austria (
i/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] (
listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: 
Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
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Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer (October 14, 1909 in Lingen, Lower Saxony, Germany – January 28, 1938 on the Frankfurt/Darmstadt Autobahn) was a German racing driver.
His father owned a garage and repair shop where young Bernd Rosemeyer worked on motorcycles and cars. Having started by racing motorbikes, Rosemeyer became a member of the Auto Union racing team with hardly any experience in normal race cars. This was later considered a benefit as he was not yet used to the handling of traditional layout race cars. The mid-engined Silver Arrows of Auto Union were hard to drive, and only he and Italian Legend Tazio Nuvolari truly mastered these 500 bhp (370 kW) beasts.
In only his second ever Grand Prix, at the daunting Nürburgring, Rosemeyer took the lead from the great Rudolf Caracciola and was almost in sight of the finish line when he missed a gear and was over taken. However in subsequent years he made up for this mistake by winning three consecutive races at the Nürburgring, one famously in thick fog. Later in 1935 he won his first Grand Prix at the Brno Masaryk Circuit in Czechoslovakia.
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Bohemia
Bohemia (Czech: Čechy;German: Böhmen (help·info); Polish: Czechy; French: Bohême; Latin: Bohemia) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague. In a broader meaning, it often refers to the entire Czech territory, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, especially in historical contexts, such as the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Bohemia has an area of 52,065 km² and today is home to approximately 6 million of the Czech Republic's 10.3 million inhabitants. It is bordered by Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, the historical region of Moravia to the east, and Austria to the south. Bohemia's borders are marked with mountain ranges such as the Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains, and the Krkonoše (Giant Mountains), the highest within the Sudeten mountain range.
In the 2nd century BC, the Romans were competing for dominance in northern Italy, with various peoples including the Boii. The Romans defeated the Boii at the Battle of Placentia (194 BC) and the Battle of Mutina (193 BC). After this, many of the Boii retreated north across the Alps.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic (i/ˈtʃɛk/ CHEK;Czech: Česká republika, pronounced [ˈtʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka] ( listen), short form Česko Czech pronunciation: [ˈtʃɛskɔ]) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the north, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. Its capital and largest city, with 1.3 million inhabitants, is Prague.
It is a pluralist multi-party parliamentary representative democracy, a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Visegrád Group.
The Czech state, formerly known as Bohemia, was formed in the late 9th century as a small duchy around Prague, at that time under dominance of the powerful Great Moravian Empire (which reached its greatest territorial extent during the reign of Svatopluk I from the House of Mojmír). After the fall of the Empire in 907, the centre of power was transferred from Moravia to Bohemia, under the Přemyslids. During the rule of Přemyslid dukes/kings and their successors, the Luxembourgs, the country reached its greatest territorial extent (13th–14th century). Life in the country was significantly affected by the Hussite wars, during which it faced economic embargo and crusades from all over Europe. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy as one of its three principal parts alongside the Archduchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. The Bohemian Revolt (1618–20) led to the further centralization of the monarchy including forced recatholization and Germanization. During radical reforms in the 18th century the Bohemian Crown was even de facto abolished (1749). In the 19th century the Czech lands became the industrial powerhouse of the monarchy and the core of the Republic of Czechoslovakia which was formed in 1918, following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire after World War I.
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Detroit
Detroit ( /diˈtrɔɪt/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 313 (its telephone area code) Detroit became known as the "great arsenal of democracy" for its support of the U.S. role among the Allied powers during World War II.
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Dijon
Coordinates: 47°17′26″N 5°02′34″E / 47.2906°N 5.0428°E / 47.2906; 5.0428
Dijon (French pronunciation: [diʒɔ̃] ( listen)) is a city in eastern France, and is the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.
Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population (2008): 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 (2007) for the greater Dijon area.
Dijon began as a Roman settlement called Divio, located on the road from Lyon to Paris. Saint Benignus, the city's patron saint, is said to have introduced Christianity to the area before being martyred.
This province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and Dijon was a place of tremendous wealth and power and one of the great European centres of art, learning and science. The Duchy of Burgundy was a key in the transformation of medieval times toward early modern Europe. The Palais des ducs de Bourgogne (Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy) now houses city hall and a museum of medieval art.
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England
Englandi/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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Floridsdorf
Floridsdorf is the 21st district of Vienna, Austria (German: 21. Bezirk, Floridsdorf). Floridsdorf is located in the northern part of Vienna.
The District Office and the centre of Floridsdorf are located round Am Spitz, at the junction of Prager Straße (Prague Street) and Brünner Straße (Brno Street).
Since 2004, Floridsdorf has had its own tower: the Florido Tower.
The SCN (Shopping Center Nord) is the biggest shopping centre in Floridsdorf.
Parts of Floridsdorf were formerly villages. For example, there are Stammersdorf, Strebersdorf and Leopoldau. Because of this, Floridsdorf is mostly a very rural district, with many taverns selling homegrown wine (Heurige).
The first settlers are estimated to have come between 4000 and 2000 B.C. Judging from stone tools that have been found, they appeared to be hunters.
Around 500 BC Celtic people came, but were soon driven out by the Romans. For a long time it was uninhabited; it became a buffer zone between Rome and Germanic tribes.
In the north of Floridsdorf, the area is dominated by the southern foothills of the Bisamberg hill, as the terrain of the municipal district. While the summit of Bisamberg 358 is already in Lower Austria, it is the Summit Falkenberg 320 which is the highest point in Floridsdorf.
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France
France (Englishi/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km2 (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km2 / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
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Germany
Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Kingdom of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania was the Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania (1866, 1923, 1938). Thus, the Kingdom of Romania began with the reign of King Carol I of Romania who gained Romanian's independence in the Romanian War of Independence, and ended with the abdication of King Michael I of Romania in 30 December 1947, imposed by the Soviet Union with the tacit and secret, implicit consent of its allies (as a result of the Yalta Conference and secret agreements). As such, it is quite distinct from the Romanian Old Kingdom, which refers strictly to the reign of King Carol I of Romania, between 14 March (O.S.) (26 May (N.S.)) 1881 and 27 September (O.S.) (10 October (N.S.)) 1914.
From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two vassal principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged independent kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. In 1918, at the end of World War I, Transylvania, Eastern Moldavia (Bessarabia), and Bukovina united with the Kingdom of Romania, resulting in a "Greater Romania". In 1940, Bessarabia, Northern Bukowina, Northern Transylvania and Southern Dobruja were ceded to the Soviet Union, Hungary and Bulgaria respectively, only Northern Transylvania being recovered after World War II ended. In 1947 the last king was compelled to abdicate and a republic ruled by the Romanian Communist Party replaced the monarchy.
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Nazi Germany
The Third Reich, also Nazi Germany, is the common name for Germany when it was a totalitarian state ruled by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). On 30 January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany, quickly eliminating all opposition to rule as sole leader. The state idolized Hitler as its Führer ("leader"), centralizing all power in his hands. Historians have emphasized the hypnotic effect of his rhetoric on large audiences, and of his eyes in small groups. Kessel writes, "Overwhelmingly...Germans speak with mystification of Hitler's 'hypnotic' appeal..." Under the "leader principle", the Führer's word was above all other laws. Top officials reported to Hitler and followed his policies, but they had considerable autonomy. The government was not a coordinated, cooperating body, but rather a collection of factions struggling to amass power and curry favor with the Führer. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazi government restored prosperity and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy of free-market and central-planning practices. Extensive public works were undertaken, including the construction of the Autobahns. The return to prosperity gave the regime enormous popularity; the suppression of all opposition made Hitler's rule mostly unchallenged.
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Reich Chancellery
The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1871 to 1945. Its seat from 1875 was the former city palace of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833) on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.
Today the office of the German chancellor is usually called Kanzleramt (Chancellor's Office), or more formally Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellor's Office).
When the military alliance of the North German Confederation was reorganised as a federal state with effect from July 1, 1867, the office of a Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) was implemented at Berlin and staffed with the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. After the unification of Germany on January 18, 1871 by accession of the South German states, Bismarck became Reich Chancellor of the new German Empire.
In 1869 the Prussian state government had acquired the Rococo city palace of late Prince Radziwiłł on Wilhelmstraße No. 77 (former "Palais Schulenburg"), which from 1875 was refurbished as the official building of the Chancellery. It was inaugurated with the meetings of the Berlin Congress in July 1878, followed by the Congo Conference in 1884.
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Sweden
Sweden (i/ˈswiːdən/ SWEE-dən; Swedish: Sverige [ˈsværjɛ] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund.
At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of about 9.4 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi) with the population mostly concentrated to the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population live in urban areas. Sweden's capital city is Stockholm, which is also the largest city.
Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the country expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire. The empire grew to be one of the great powers of Europe in the 17th and early 18th century. Most of the conquered territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were lost during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern half of Sweden, present-day Finland, was lost to Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into a personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, practicing "non-participation in military alliances during peacetime and neutrality during wartime". However, Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995 and is a member of the OECD.
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Vienna
Vienna ( /viːˈɛnə/; German: Wien (help·info) [viːn]) is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million (2.4 million within the metropolitan area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 9th-largest city by population in the European Union. Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German speaking city in the world, and before the first world war and the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian empire the city had 2 million inhabitants. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations and OPEC. The city lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik [ˈvaɪmaʁɐ ʁepuˈbliːk] (
listen)) is the name given by historians to the federal republic and parliamentary representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. It was named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place. Its official name was German Reich (Deutsches Reich)
Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918. In 1919, a national assembly convened in Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, then adopted on 11 August of that same year. The ensuing period of liberal democracy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the nascent Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and March 1933, commonly known as Gleichschaltung ("coordination") meant that the government could legislate contrary to the constitution. The republic nominally continued to exist until 1945, as the constitution was never formally repealed. However, the measures taken by the Nazis in the early part of their rule rendered the constitution irrelevant. Thus, 1933 is usually seen as the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Hitler's Third Reich.
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West Germany
West Germany (German: Westdeutschland) is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.
During this period, West Germany and the communist East Germany were divided by the Inner German border. After 1961, West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall. This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city-state of Berlin. The enlarged Federal Republic of Germany with sixteen states (known simply as "Germany") is thus the continuation of the pre-1990 Federal Republic of Germany.
The Federal Republic of Germany was established from eleven states formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France (the "Western Zones"). The city of Bonn was its provisional capital city. The fourth Allied occupation zone (the East Zone, or Ostzone) was held by the Soviet Union. The parts of this zone lying east of the Oder-Neisse were in fact annexed by the Soviet Union and communist Poland; the remaining central part around Berlin became the communist German Democratic Republic (abbreviated GDR; in German Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) with its de facto capital in East Berlin. As a result, West Germany had a territory about half the size of the interwar democratic Weimar Republic.
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Achille Varzi
Achille Varzi (August 8, 1904 – July 1, 1948), was an Italian Grand Prix driver.
Born in Galliate, province of Novara (Piedmont), Achille Varzi was the son of a prosperous textile manufacturer. As a young man, he was a successful motorcycle racer of Garelli, DOT, Moto Guzzi and Sunbeam, and rode seven times in the Isle of Man TT from 1924 before switching to auto racing in 1928 where, for the next ten years he would rival the great Tazio Nuvolari.
Varzi's first race car was a Type 35 Bugatti but he shortly changed to driving an Alfa Romeo, a brand with which he would score a great many victories during the 1929 Italian racing season. In 1930 Varzi acquired a vehicle from the relatively new Maserati company. He drove it as well as an Alfa Romeo earning his country's racing championship, a feat he would repeat in 1934. One of his big victories came at the prestigious Targa Florio where he upset the favored Louis Chiron. Following his win at the 1933 Tripoli Grand Prix, Varzi was at the forefront of allegations that the race had been fixed.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
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Adolf Hühnlein
Adolf Hühnlein (November 12, 1881 Neustädtlein, Upper Franconia - June 18, 1942, Munich) was a German soldier and Nazi Party official. He was the Korpsführer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps, the NSKK, from 1934 until his death in 1942.
He had been decorated with the Iron Cross Second Class and First Class in 1914, and was posthumously awarded the German Order on June 22, 1942.
All race car drivers were required to become members of the NSKK, which Himmler had moved into the SS following the curtailing of the SA. Hühnlein often presented the trophies at German Grand Prix races and made certain Nazi flags and bunting covered the victory tribunes. The most famous race car driver that had to answer to Hühnlein was Bernd Rosemeyer, who drove the Auto Union Silver Arrow. He was considered the best race car driver in the world in 1936. Although a member of the NSKK, Rosemeyer, like many drivers, did not respect Hühnlein or the NSKK, an organization the drivers were forced to join.
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Adolf Rosenberger
Adolf Rosenberger (Born: 8 April 1900 in Pforzheim, Germany. Died: 6 December 1967 in California, USA, aged 67) was a successful businessman who mainly raced Mercedes and Benz cars in the 1920s. His successes and records included wins at Avus, Stuttgart Solitude in 1924 and 1925, the Kasseler Herkules Hillclimb and the Klausenpassrennen. At the 1926 German Grand Prix, Rosenberger was involved in one of the numerous accidents in treacherous conditions. He survived a crash into the timekeepers' box, but killed the three occupants.
In 1931, he founded the Porsche GmbH together with Ferdinand Porsche and Dr. 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 his behalf by Dr. Porsche, but he was forced to leave Germany immediately. He emigrated to France, and later to Great Britain, representing Porsche GmbH in both of those countries. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and in 1944 he became an US-citizen under the name of Alan Arthur Robert. He moved to California where he was active in motorsports and the automobile business. He died in California in 1967.
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Al Holbert
Alvah Robert "Al" Holbert (November 11, 1946 at Abington, Pennsylvania – September 30, 1988) was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series.
The son of racecar driver Bob Holbert, who also ran a Volkswagen-Porsche dealership in Warrington, PA, near Philadelphia, Holbert worked for Roger Penske while studying at Lehigh University. In 1971, Holbert scored his first race win in a Porsche and would turn professional in 1974. He would score his first of his two IMSA titles in 1976 and 1977 in a Chevrolet Monza. Being a Porsche supporter, Holbert allowed Porsche technicians to inspect his Monza, which would eventually lead to Porsche entering the series with turbocharged cars such as the 934 that led to a Porsche dominance for the following years. During that time Holbert jumped ship to the Stuttgart marque.
From 1976-1979 Holbert raced 19 career races in NASCAR. In those 19 races, in which he drove primarily for James Hylton, Holbert scored 4 top ten finishes.
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Alfred Neubauer
Alfred Neubauer (29 March 1891 in Neutitschein – 22 August 1980 in Stuttgart) was the racing manager of the Mercedes Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955.
Neubauer's father, Karl Neubauer, was a furniture-maker in Neutitschein, which then was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Karl christened his only son Alfred, but the child quickly became known to family and friends as Friedl.
Neubauer was involved in the repair of motor vehicles while an officer in the Imperial Austrian army. After the First World War, he joined the Austrian car manufacturer Austro-Daimler, where Ferdinand Porsche appointed him chief tester. From 1922 onwards, Neubauer also drove in races, but without any great success. In 1923, when Ferdinand Porsche moved to the Daimler Works at Stuttgart (Daimler-Benz was not founded until 1926), he took Neubauer with him. In 1926, recognizing that he himself was not a great racing driver, Neubauer had an inspiration. He invented the position of racing team manager (Rennleiter).
Racing drivers in those days being isolated from the outside, they often did not know their position in a race. Occasionally a driver would be surprised to learn after a race that he had won. To overcome this situation, Alfred Neubauer devised a well thought-out system, with flags and boards, to give his drivers tactical information. When he tried out the system for the first time at the Solitude races on 12 September 1926, the chief steward demanded angrily that he leave the track, since his ‘antics’ were irritating the drivers. To Neubauer’s explanation that he was the Rennleiter, the organizer responded: ‘Are you mad? I’m the Rennleiter’.
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Austria
Austria (i/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] ( listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
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Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer (October 14, 1909 in Lingen, Lower Saxony, Germany – January 28, 1938 on the Frankfurt/Darmstadt Autobahn) was a German racing driver.
His father owned a garage and repair shop where young Bernd Rosemeyer worked on motorcycles and cars. Having started by racing motorbikes, Rosemeyer became a member of the Auto Union racing team with hardly any experience in normal race cars. This was later considered a benefit as he was not yet used to the handling of traditional layout race cars. The mid-engined Silver Arrows of Auto Union were hard to drive, and only he and Italian Legend Tazio Nuvolari truly mastered these 500 bhp (370 kW) beasts.
In only his second ever Grand Prix, at the daunting Nürburgring, Rosemeyer took the lead from the great Rudolf Caracciola and was almost in sight of the finish line when he missed a gear and was over taken. However in subsequent years he made up for this mistake by winning three consecutive races at the Nürburgring, one famously in thick fog. Later in 1935 he won his first Grand Prix at the Brno Masaryk Circuit in Czechoslovakia.
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Christian Kautz
Christian Kautz (born 23 November 1913 - died on 4 July 1948) was an auto racing driver from Switzerland.
Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, his career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix. Kautz was a testpilot for Lockheed in the USA during the Second World War. He died at only 34 years of age in a fatal accident in a Maserati at the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten.
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Ernst Fuhrmann
Dr Ernst Fuhrmann (born Vienna 21 October 1918, died Teufenbach 6 February 1995) was the chairman of Porsche AG between 1972 and 1980. He was a German citizen.
Fuhrmann’s attended primary school in Vienna before progressing to a Grammar school. Between 1936 and 1941 he attended a technical high school. During the war he undertook his military service before returning to civilian life. Already in 1947 he was working for Porsche, initially at the Gmünd facility in Austria, relocating subsequently to Stuttgart. In 1950, the year in which he married his wife Elfriede, he received his Doctorate of Machine Construction (des Maschinenbaus) for a study on valve trains in high-speed internal combustion engines.
In 1952/53 he provided significant input to the development of the 547 engine which became known as the Fuhrmann engine. The is a four-cylinder boxer engine with two overhead camshafts, driven by bevel gears, for each of the two cylinder banks.
In 1956 Fuhrmann left Porsche and took over responsibility for development with the car parts company Goetze, where in 1962 he joined the board of directors.
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Ernst Jakob Henne
Ernst Jakob Henne ((1904-02-22)22 February 1904 – 23 May 2005(2005-05-23) (aged 101) ) was a distinguished German motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
Henne was born in the village of Weiler, near Wangen im Allgäu. His father was a saddlemaker. In 1919 Henne was apprenticed to a become a motor vehicle mechanic. He started racing in 1923 in Mühldorf, and in 1925 he competed in the Monza Grand Prix, his first major international event. He placed sixth in the 350cc class.
Henne soon became one of the most successful German motorcycle racers. He was the 1926 German champion in the 500cc class, 1927 German champion in the 750cc class and the 1928 winner of the Targa Florio in Sicily.
Between 1928 to 1937, he achieved a total of 76 land speed world records, the last on 28 November 1937 with the 279.5 km/h (173.7 mph) on a fully faired 500cc supercharged BMW. This record stood for 14 years.
Henne was one of the most successful sportsmen in the 1930s in the company of such German greats as Max Schmeling, Gottfried von Cramm, Rudolf Harbig, Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Bernd Rosemeyer.
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Ernst von Delius
Ernst von Delius (March 29, 1912 – July 26, 1937) was a racing driver from Germany.
Von Delius died at the age of 25 years old at the Nürburgring Circuit during the 1937 German Grand Prix, having suffered a fatal collision with Richard Seaman.
Ernst was the brother of Carl Christian Alexander von Delius and Freidrich von Delius. His two surviving nephews are Carl Christian von Delius (Kalispell, Montana) and Curt Freidrich von Delius (Phoenix, AZ).
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Erwin Komenda
Erwin Komenda (April 6, 1904 - August 22, 1966)ex Dr Ferdinand Porsche employee, helped in the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars.
He was born in Weyer, a little village in Upper Austria near Steyr. From 1926 to 1929 he worked as a car-body designer in the Steyr factories. There he met Ferdinand Porsche in 1929 when Porsche joined Steyr as technical director. In 1929 Komenda's innovative ideas landed him the post of Chief Engineer for Daimler-Benz in Sindelfingen (Germany), a position he held until 1931. During his tenure he managed in most cases to reduce the weight of Mercedes cars through better design. During that period Mercedes also developed a streamlined car with monocoque construction. In October 1931, Komenda resigned his most respectable job with Mercedes and joined Ferdinand Porsche's new company, a step into an unknown future.
From 1931 to his death in 1966 Komenda was chief engineer and leader of the Porsche car-body-construction department.
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Ewald Kluge
Ewald Kluge (19 January 1909 — 19 August 1964) was a German motorcyclist.
Ewald Kluge had a difficult upbringing. At the age of twelve, his mother died and he was forced to stay at home, working for his father's company. At fourteen, he sought a teaching position but was unsuccessful and ended up washing cars, which led to an apprenticeship as a mechanic in a garage. At the age of nineteen he was made redundant and started working as a taxi driver in Dresden.
For 800 Reichsmarks Kluge bought a Dunelt motorcycle in which he entered the 1929 Freiberger Dreiecksrennen, starting first and finishing in third place. Over the next few years, Kluge rode a private DKW before joining the DKW works team in 1934 as a mechanic and backup rider. In 1935 he was made a full member of the works team.
From 1936 to 1939, Kluge was German champion in the 250 cc class and in 1938 and 1939 he was also European champion. In June 1938, Kluge won the 250 cc Lightweight TT at the Isle of Man TT by a margin of eleven minutes and ten seconds over second placed Ginger Wood. He was the first German and only the second rider from continental Europe to win the race.
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Ferdinand Piëch
Ferdinand Karl Piëch (born 17 April 1937) is an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who is currently the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group.
A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Piëch started his career at Porsche, before leaving for Audi after an agreement that no member of the Porsche or Piëch families should be involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. Piëch eventually became the head of Audi, where is credited with turning Audi into a credible competitor to Mercedes-Benz and BMW thanks in part to innovative designs such as the Quattro and 100. In 1993, Piëch became the chairman and CEO of Volkswagen Group, which he is credited with turning into the large conglomerate it is today; He oversaw the purchase of Lamborghini and Bentley, as well as the founding of Bugatti Automobiles, all of which he integrated with the Volkswagen, Skoda, SEAT and Audi brands into a ladder-type structure similar to that used by Alfred Sloan at General Motors. Piëch was required to retire at age 65 per Volkswagen company policy, but has remained on its supervisory board and is still involved in the company's strategic decisions.
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Ferdinand Porsche
Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric), the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles. Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, which was the first race car with mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout.
Known in business circles as the "great engineer", he made a number of contributions to advanced German tank designs: Tiger I, Tiger II, and the Elefant as well as the super-heavy Panzer VIII Maus tank, which was never put into production. He also made contributions in aircraft design, including the Junkers Ju 88, and the Focke-Wulf Ta 152. Additionally, he helped develop and manufacture retaliatory weapons (Vergeltungswaffen), such as the V-1 flying bombs(Fi 103 flying bombs). In 1937, Porsche was awarded the German National Prize for Art and Science, one of the rarest decorations in Nazi Germany.
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Fritz Nallinger
Dr Professor Fritz Nallinger (born Esslingen am Neckar 6 August 1898, died Stuttgart 4 June 1984) was a German automobile engineer and executive.
Nallinger joined Daimler Benz AG in 1922. He played an important part in the development of all-round independent suspension for passenger cars and in the introduction of (relatively) high speed diesel engines to passenger cars in the 1930s, something which has remained a key strength for the company ever since.
During the Nazi period he enjoyed the status of Wehrwirtschaftsführer, reflecting the important war-time contribution from European auto-makers to military equipment production in the principal belligerent states. He was appointed a director on the research and development side of the business in 1940 and in 1941 was appointed to the executive board. At this time he was also appointed a member of the "Deutschen Akademie der Luftfahrtforschung".(German Academy of aircraft research).
After the war he continued to play a leading role in the Daimler Benz Research and Development department, associated in particular with the company’s return to racing in 1954.
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Georg Meier
Georg "Schorsch" Meier (9 November 1910, Mühldorf am Inn – 19 February 1999) was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first foreign winner of the prestigious Senior TT the Blue Riband race of the Isle of Man TT Races in 1939 riding for the factory BMW team and the first motor-cycle racer to lap a Grand Prix course at over 100mph.
Meier was born in Mühldorf am Inn, Bavaria, Germany and after leaving school at the age of 14 years, Georg Meier became an apprentice at a local motor-cycle repair shop in Mühldorf am Inn in Bavaria and became known as "Schorsch" (the Bavarian diminutive for Georg) Meier. After hearing that the Bavarian State Police were creating a motor-cycle section, at the age of 19 years, Georg Meier applied to join and was accepted in 1929. A trainee period of three years had to be completed before Georg Meier was able to transfer to the motor-cycle police section in 1932.
After becoming a member of the Bavarian Police Team, Georg Meier competed in 1000km endurance trials that where popular at the time and seen as good training for motor-cycle dispatch riders. In 1934, Georg Meier attracted attention of the German Army motor-cycle team after finishing a 1000 km enduro an hour ahead of schedule and also riding an unpopular 400cc single-cylinder BMW R4 with a pressed-steel frame and out-moded trailing-link front forks. With fellow competitors in the German Army team, Fritz Linhardt and Joseph Forstner they won so many enduro events that Georg Meier became known as "Der Gusseiserne Schorsch". (Ironman Georg).
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Goffredo Zehender
Goffredo 'Freddie' Zehender (Reggio Calabria, Italy, 27 February 1901 - 7 January 1958) was an Italian racing driver. He started his driving career with Chrysler, then Bugatti and most of his career with Alfa Romeo as works or privatee driver. He won the 1932 Grand Prix du Comminges with private Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 'Monza'. From 1934 he raced also for Maserati.
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Hans Ledwinka
Hans Ledwinka (14 February 1878 - 2 March 1967) was an Austrian automobile designer.
Ledwinka was born was born in Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), near Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He started his career as simple mechanic, and later studied in Vienna. As a young man he worked for Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau in Nesselsdorf, the company that later became known as Tatra in Moravia. He was first employed in the construction of railroad cars, and later involved in the production of the first cars produced by this firm. He designed the 5.3-litre six-cylinder Type U motor car. In 1917, in the midst of World War I, he left the company to join Steyr.
Ledwinka returned to Tatra company (originally Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau) in Kopřivnice (Nesselsdorf), then in Czechoslovakia, now in Czech Republic, and between 1921 and 1937 he was their chief design engineer. He invented the frameless central tubular chassis (so-called "backbone chassis") with swing axles, fully independent suspension and rear-mounted air-cooled flat engine. Another of Ledwinka's major contributions to automobile design was the development of the streamlined car body. Under him, Tatra brought to market the first streamlined cars that had been mass produced. Together with his son Erich, who took over as chief designer at Tatra, Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker, a German engineer also employed by Tatra, designed the streamlined Tatra models T77, T77a, T87, and T97. All of these models had rear mounted, air-cooled engines.
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Hans Stuck
Hans Stuck (sometimes called Hans Stuck von Villiez, last name pronounced shtook) (December 27, 1900 in Warsaw– February 9, 1978 in Grainau) was a German motor racing driver. Both his son Hans-Joachim Stuck (born 1951) and his grandsons Johannes and Ferdinand Stuck became race drivers.
Despite many successes in Grand Prix motor racing for Auto Union in the early 1930s, during the era of the famous "Silver Arrows", he is now mostly known for his domination of hillclimbing, which earned him the nickname "Bergkönig" or "King of the Mountains".
Stuck's experience with car racing started in 1922 with early morning runs bringing milk from his farm to Munich, shortly after his first marriage. This eventually led to his taking up hill-climbing; he won his first race, at Baden-Baden, in 1923. A few years later, after a year as a privateer for Austro-Daimler, he became a works driver for them in 1927, doing well in hill climbs, and making his first appearance in a circuit race (the German Grand Prix) that year as well. In 1931, Austro-Daimler left racing, and Stuck eventually wound up driving a Mercedes-Benz SSKL in sports car racing, where he continued to excel.
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Harm Lagaay
Harm Lagaay (28 December 1946, The Hague) is a Dutch automobile designer. Educated in the Netherlands he completed the studies at the IVA and went to work for a Dutch company Olyslager in Soest.
In the late 1960s, Lagaay went to work for Simca, then from 1971 for Porsche. He worked in the team designing the Porsche 911 and designed the Porsche 924. From 1977 Lagaay worked as Chief of Design for Ford in Cologne, and moved to BMW in 1985.
Lagaay designed the BMW Z1 sports car, with electric doors hiding under the car's chassis and easily exchangeable body panels. This car was too advanced for its times and did not have commercial success, as only 8000 were made. Today, the BMW Z1 is a collector's item.
He returned to Porsche in 1989 as head of the "Style Porsche" department in Weissach. As well as the Porsches of the period — the Porsche 968, Porsche 993 (the 1993-1997 generation of the 911 for which Englishman Tony Hatter is also credited), Boxster, Cayenne, 996 (the all-new 911 of 1997), Carrera GT — he also oversaw the company's work for external clients.
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Heinrich Nordhoff
Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff (born 6 January 1899 in Hildesheim, died 12 April 1968 in Wolfsburg) was a German engineer famous for his leadership of the Volkswagen company as it was rebuilt after World War II.
Nordhoff attended technical college in Berlin, where he became a member of the Roman Catholic fraternity Askania-Burgundia, and in 1927, began work for BMW working on aircraft engines.
In 1929 he went to work for Opel where he gained experience of the automotive industry and rapid promotion. In 1936 he was the Commercial-Technical director who presented the company's innovative new small car, the Kadett to the public. In 1942, with passenger car production much diminished on account of the war, he took over as Production Director at the company's flagship truck plant at Brandenburg.
Following the war he obtained a job as a service manager at a Hamburg garage. Hamburg was a central location for the British Military Government who recruited him for the position of Managing Director of the badly damaged Volkswagen plant at Wolfsburg. He assumed the position on 2 January 1948 from British Army Major Ivan Hirst (REME). During his first year in post Nordhoff doubled production to 19,244 cars. By the end of 1961 annual production exceeded a million vehicles.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. Ford spent most of his life making headlines, good, bad, but never indifferent. Celebrated as both a technological genius and a folk hero, Ford was the creative force behind an industry of unprecedented size and wealth that in only a few decades permanently changed the economic and social character of the United States. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
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Herbert Linge
Herbert Linge (born 11 June 1928 in Weissach) is a German former racing and rally driver. As an employee of Porsche, he was involved in many events, and later also in motorsport safety.
He took part in many 24 Hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s, even with a Porsche 917. He became famous for being the co-driver of Hans Herrmann in the 1954 Mille Miglia, when their low Porsche 550 passed under a closed railroad crossing, with both ducking under the dashboard. In 1960, Linge won the Tour de Corse rally in a Porsche SC 90. He is still the only German to win the event.
The Deutscher Motor Sport Bund's DMSB-Staffel, founded in 1972 by Linge for the Oberste Nationale Sportbehörde as ONS-Staffel, is considered the first mobile track Marshalling crew, equipped with fast cars like the Porsche 914 or Porsche 911, carrying fire extinguishers and doctors in order to arrive quickly at a crash site.
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Hermann Lang
Hermann Lang (April 6, 1909 – October 19, 1987) was a German champion race car driver.
Born in the Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at age fourteen Hermann Lang had to go to work to help support his family following the death of his father. Young Lang found a job as a motorcycle mechanic, eventually buying his own used bike with which he began amateur racing. He won the very first race he entered and before long decided to compete in the sidecar class. At age twenty-two, he won the German sidecar mountain race championship.
Lang's big break came when he landed a job at the Mercedes factory where he became part of their Grand Prix motor racing team. He was made head mechanic for the Mercedes-Benz W25A model to be driven by the Italian star Luigi Fagioli who had left Alfa Romeo to create a powerhouse Mercedes factory team that also included Rudolf Caracciola. Following a very successful season in which Fagioli won both the Italian and Spanish Grand Prix, Hermann Lang was given a chance to drive for the Mercedes team. He proved to be most capable on high-speed racetracks, capturing his first win in the 1937 Tripoli Grand Prix at the Mellaha Lake course in Libya which was then the fastest racetrack in the world. Lang dominated the event, winning it for three straight years. That year he won his second major race at the AVUS extravaganza.
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Hermann Paul Müller
Hermann Paul Müller (born in Bielefeld, 21 November 1909 - died in Ingolstadt, 30 December 1975) was a German sidecar, motorcycle, and race car driver.
Müller started his competitive career in 1928. He became German Sidecar Champion in 1932, then in 1936, he took the German 500cc Motorcycle title.
He switched to cars the next year, driving for Auto Union. He won the 1939 edition of the FIA French Grand Prix held in Reims. The winner of that season's European Championship was never officially announced by the AIACR due to the outbreak of World War II. Although Müller would have won the championship on points, the president of Germany's highest motorsports organisation declared Hermann Lang the champion.
After the war he returned to motorcycle racing, winning the 1947 and 1948 German 250cc titles. In 1955, he won the 250cc world championship riding an NSU. To this day he remains the oldest person to win a Grand Prix Motorcycle world championship, at the age of 46.
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Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz (help·info) (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz patented his work first, and, subsequently patented all the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in an automobile. In 1879 his first engine patent was granted to him and in 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile.
Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, in Karlsruhe, Baden, which is part of modern Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz, whom she married a few months later. When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father.
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Karl Rabe
Karl Rabe (October 29, 1895 - October 28, 1968) was an automobile designer and held position of Chief Designer at Porsche. He helped Ferdinand Porsche to develop the Porsche's transmissions.[citation needed]
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Klaus von Oertzen
Baron Claus-Detlof von Oertzen (1894 – 1991) was involved in the motor industry for most of his long life and is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Volkswagen of South Africa”.
During 1932, four motor manufacturers of Saxony in Germany, namely Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer, amalgamated under the pressures of the depressed German economy to form Auto Union. The new company’s four-ringed emblem, which von Oertzen suggested, can still be seen in the modern Audi logo. Baron von Oertzen, who had been in charge of sales at Wanderer, became sales director and chairman of the board of directors of Auto Union.
Von Oertzen wanted a showpiece project that would bring fame to his new firm. Together with Ferdinand Porsche and Hans Stuck (senior), one of Germany’s most successful racing drivers, they began work on a new “people’s car” and also a government-sponsored racing programme. Initially a sum of 500,000 Reichmarks was pledged to Mercedes-Benz, but Dr. Porsche was able to convince the government that two programmes were better than one, and the 500,000 RM would be split by the two competing firms. Mercedes-Benz was not pleased at this turn of events and a great rivalry began on the race circuits.
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Louis Chiron
Louis Alexandre Chiron (born 3 August 1899 in Monte Carlo, Monaco – died there on 22 June 1979) was a Grand Prix driver.
As a teenager, Louis Chiron fell in love with cars and racing. He learned to drive at a young age and joined the Grand Prix circuit after World War I where he had been requisitioned from the artillery section to serve as a chauffeur. Competing in France, in 1926 he won his first local race, taking the Grand Prix de Comminges at Saint-Gaudens near the city of Toulouse. From there, Chiron went on to drive a Bugatti and an Alfa Romeo P3 to important wins in the Marseille Grand Prix, the Circuit of Masaryk, and the Spanish Grand Prix. In addition, he teamed up with champion marathon driver Luigi Chinetti to win the 1933 Spa 24 hours endurance race in Belgium. He also drove a Delage to 7th place in the 1929 Indianapolis 500. He won the 1931 Monaco Grand Prix, and as of 2012[update] he is the only Monaco-born driver to have done so.
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Louise Piëch
Louise Piëch (née Porsche) (29 August 1904, Wiener Neustadt – 10 February 1999, Zell am See) was the daughter of automotive pioneer Ferdinand Porsche. In 1928, she married Anton Piëch, a lawyer from Vienna who from 1941 to 1945 led the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg.
The couple had four children: Ernst, Louise, Ferdinand and Hans-Michel.
When her husband died in 1952, the Austrian businesswoman imported Porsche and Volkswagen cars to Austria.
When her son Ferdinand was in charge of Porsche's sports car racing program in the late 1960s, a second works team was set up, called Porsche Salzburg. One of their cars scored the marque's first overall win at Le Mans in 1970.
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Luigi Fagioli
Luigi Fagioli (Italian pronunciation: [luˈidʒi faˈdʒɔli]; 9 June 1898 – 20 June 1952), nicknamed "the Abruzzi robber", was an Italian motor racing driver.
Born in the small city of Osimo, in the Marche region of central Italy, as a boy Luigi Fagioli was fascinated by the relatively new invention of the automobile and the ensuing racing. Blessed with great natural driving instincts, a young Fagioli spent several years participating in hillclimbing and sports car races before entering Grand Prix racing in 1926. By 1930, his racing success led to an opportunity to join the Maserati team on the Grand Prix motor racing circuit. He immediately made his presence felt, winning the Coppa Ciano and Circuit of Avellino. In April of the following year he went head to head with Louis Chiron and his Bugatti Type 51 at the Monaco Grand Prix. In what is one of racing's most famous battles, Chiron eventually won but Fagioli showed how skilled he was in a car geared for great speed on long stretches, not the tight twists and short runs of Monte Carlo. Fagioli went on to take the victory at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy beating Chiron as well as fellow Italian greats, Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari. In 1932, Fagioli won the Grand Prix of Rome driving for Maserati but for the 1933 season he was signed by the Alfa Romeo team of Scuderia Ferrari. Driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3, he won the Coppa Acerbo, the Grand Prix du Comminges, and the Italian Grand Prix.
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Max Sailer
Max Sailer (20 December 1882 Esslingen – 05 February 1964 Esslingen) was a German racecar driver. Prior to World War II he headed Mercedes' racing efforts, later retiring to become a director of the firm.
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Michael Macht
Michael Macht (28 August 1960 –) was the CEO of the German car manufacturer Porsche. He was previously head of production on the management board and was appointed chairman of the management board of Porsche AG and Porsche Automobil Holding on 23 July 2009. He was also on the board of Porsche SE.
Michael Macht was born in Stuttgart, Germany on 28 August 1960. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart and then worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, before joining Porsche in 1990, at first a specialist for engine planning. He later became assistant to the chairman of the management board, and in 1994 he was made managing director of Porsche Consulting. In 1998 he was appointed to the board of Porsche AG, responsible for production and logistics. Macht was also directly involved in the design of Porsche's most controversial models, the Cayenne and the Panamera. In July 2009 he was appointed chairman of the management board of Porsche AG, as successor to Wendelin Wiedeking.
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Norbert Singer
Norbert Singer (born November 1939) is a German automotive engineer. He has played a key role in every one of Porsche’s 16 overall race victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Singer was born in Eger (Cheb), part of Nazi Germany's Sudetenland in 1939.
When Singer joined the Porsche company in Stuttgart, the young engineer from the University of Munich was soon given the job of cooling the gearboxes of the powerful 917 racers which had broken down in 1969. His first task was successful and the Porsche 917 dominated the event in 1970 as well as in 1971, the first year Singer attended the great race.
Singer was then given the task of developing the Porsche 911 road car for racing, and in doing so he created eventually what is by far the most successful customer race car that Porsche ever produced: the Porsche 935 won at the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, a remarkable feat for a modified 15 year old road car design.
Following this, Singer designed the bodywork of the Porsche 956 and 962 Group C cars which won no fewer than 7 24 Hours of Le Mans titles. In the 1990s, Singer engineered the Porsche WSC open sports car which claimed two victories in 1996 and 1997, and finally oversaw the Porsche 911 GT1-98 project which achieved Porsche's 16th win, the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans. Following that, Porsche retired from Le Mans racing to develop a new car, but they ultimately decided to focus on the Cayenne.
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Paul Pietsch
Paul Pietsch (born June 20, 1911) is a former racing driver from Germany and founder of the magazine Das Auto.
Born in Freiburg, Pietsch began his racing career in 1932 with a private Bugatti and Alfa Romeo.
Racing with an Alfa Romeo, he won in Sweden the 1933 III Svenska Isloppet GP (Ice Race) in Hemfjärden, and in 1934 the I Vallentunaloppet (Ice Race) in Vellentunasjön.
In the 1935 German Grand Prix he raced for Auto Union, and finished 3rd in the Italian Grand Prix before leaving the team with its hard-to-drive rear engines. From 1937 onwards he entered a private Maserati. His greatest hours came in the 1939 German Grand Prix which he led from lap 2 onwards until the ignition failed, making him drop down to third, which was still an excellent result for a privateer against the dominant force of the Silver Arrows.
After the war, he participated in 3 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 3, 1950. His drive in a factory Alfa Romeo in the 1951 German Grand Prix ended with an accident. He scored no championship points.
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Peter Schutz
Peter W. Schutz (born April 20, 1930) was the president and CEO of Porsche between 1981 and 1986, a time in which the company greatly expanded sales, primarily in the United States. Today he is a motivational speaker and co-founder of Harris and Schutz Inc., with his wife Sheila Harris-Schutz.
Peter Schutz was born to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany. The rise of the Nazi party led to the family fleeing to Havana, Cuba in 1937. In March 1939 they emigrated to Chicago, Illinois. Schutz grew up in Chicago, and received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
After graduation, Schutz worked as an engineer at Caterpillar Tractor in Peoria, Illinois for 15 years. He left Caterpillar for Cummins Engine, where he served 11 years, initially in corporate strategic planning, and then 8 years as Vice President responsible for sales and service of truck engines in the U.S. and Canada. During this time he worked with freight hauling companies to improve their profitability, instituting driver performance measures. Profits surged, and the Teamsters invited Schutz to speak at their 1976 convention. When Cummins management questioned his decision to accept the appearance, he left the company. In 1978 he took over the Deutz Engine Division of Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz.
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Piero Dusio
Piero Dusio (October 13, 1899 – November 7, 1975) was an Italian soccer player, businessman and racing driver.
Dusio was born at Scurzolengo, province of Asti. His active soccer career (three games for Juventus 1921-22) ended in a knee injury, after which he started a textile business (oil cloth), which evolved into sporting goods as well as becoming supplier of military uniforms. He raced in the Mille Miglia (1929–38), was sixth in 1936 Italian Grand Prix, winning a class victory (50th overall) in Mille Miglia in a Siata 500cc (1937), and formed the Scuderia Torino (1939). He commissioned Dante Giacosa of Fiat to develop a racing car (1944), and formed the «Consorzio Industriale Sportiva Italia» (1944). The firm became Cisitalia and involved Carlo Abarth, Rudolf Hruska and Ferry Porsche. Dusio won in the Giovanni Savonuzzi-completed car's premiere race at 1946 Turin Grand Prix (the Coppa Brezzi).
Piero Dusio continued financing racing car projects, but the expenses in engineering the complex 202MM almost ruined Cisitalia (1947), as well as involved the Juventus corporation (where Dusio was president 1941-1947). Consequently, Dusio moved to Argentina and established Autoar (Automotores Argentinos) S.A.I.C. (March 22, 1949), financially supported by Juan Peron. His son, Carlo Dusio continued to run a refinanced Cisitalia company in Torino (1948–1964).
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Richard Seaman
Richard John Beattie "Dick" Seaman (4 February 1913 in Chichester, Sussex, England – 25 June 1939 at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium), was one of the greatest pre-war Grand Prix drivers from Britain.
He famously drove for the Mercedes-Benz team from 1937-1939 in the Mercedes-Benz W125 car, winning the 1938 German Grand Prix.
Seaman was born into a wealthy family and developed an enthusiasm for motoring in his childhood. After studying at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1934 he resolved to become a racing driver and took his MG car to the European mainland to gain experience. He won the Voiturette race of the Swiss Grand Prix event at Bremgarten at his first attempt. He won other small races for English Racing Automobiles (ERA) and eventually Mercedes team chief Alfred Neubauer invited him for a trial at the Nürburgring. Both Silver Arrows teams used to have at least one foreign driver, if available.
In 1937 he signed for Mercedes-Benz against the wishes of his mother, who did not want him to drive for a "Nazi" team. Having a solid start to his career with Mercedes in 1937, he excelled in the 1938 season - he won the 1938 German Grand Prix, giving the Nazi salute on the podium and becoming one of the favourite drivers of Hitler, and came second in the 1938 Swiss Grand Prix. In December 1938 he married Erica Popp, the daughter of the director of BMW, again against his mother's wishes.
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Rudolf Caracciola
Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (30 January 1901 – 28 September 1959), more commonly Rudolf Caracciola (pronounced [ʁuːdɔlf kaʁaːtʃiːɔlɑ]), was a racing driver from Remagen, Germany. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times – twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars. Caracciola raced for Mercedes-Benz during their original dominating Silver Arrows period, named after the silver colour of the cars, and set speed records for the firm. He was affectionately dubbed Caratsch by the German public, and was known by the title of Regenmeister, or "Rainmaster", for his prowess in wet conditions.
Caracciola began racing while he was working as apprentice at the Fafnir automobile factory in Aachen during the early 1920s, first on motorcycles and then in cars. Racing for Mercedes-Benz, he won his first two Hillclimbing Championships in 1930 and 1931, and moved to Alfa Romeo for 1932, where he won the Hillclimbing Championship for the third time. In 1933, he established the privateer team Scuderia C.C. with his fellow driver Louis Chiron, but a crash in practice for the Monaco Grand Prix left him with multiple fractures of his right thigh, which ruled him out of racing for more than a year. He returned to the newly reformed Mercedes-Benz racing team in 1934, with whom he won three European Championships, in 1935, 1937 and 1938. Like most German racing drivers in the 1930s, Caracciola was a member of the Nazi paramilitary group National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), but never a member of the Nazi Party. He returned to racing after the Second World War, but crashed in qualifying for the 1946 Indianapolis 500. A second comeback in 1952 was halted by another crash, in a sports car race in Switzerland.
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Rudolf Hasse
Rudolf Hasse (30 May 1906 – 12 August 1942) was a famous German racing driver.
Hasse was born in Mittweida, Saxony, and died while serving on the Russian front during World War II, aged only 36. He won the 1937 Belgian Grand Prix.
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Rudolf Uhlenhaut
Rudolf Uhlenhaut (born 15 July 1906 in London to a German father and English mother, † 8 May 1989 in Stuttgart), was an Anglo-German engineer and executive for Mercedes-Benz. He had a long association with the Mercedes-Benz racing programme of the '30s and '50s, and is best known for his road legal version of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR race car.
Uhlenhaut was born in London, during his father's term as head of the London branch of the Deutsche Bank. Later the family moved to Brüssels and Bremen. As an avid skier, he pursued his studies in Munich.
In 1931 he joined Mercedes-Benz, working under Fritz Nallinger on the development of the Mercedes 170V. In 1936 Uhlenhaut assumed leadership of the race car department. Auto Union dominated the 1936 Grand Prix season over the aging Mercedes-Benz W25. As a talented driver in his own right, he was able to spot the deficiencies of the chassis and suspension, however he never raced competitively as he was needed for his engineering skills. The replacement for the Mercedes-Benz W25, the Mercedes-Benz W125, remedied the chassis and suspension shortcomings and was much more powerful. The W125 dominated the 1937 Grand Prix season, and was considered the most powerful Grand Prix car until the turbocharged cars of the early 1980s. In 1938 rule changes necessitated a new car for 1938 Grand Prix season, the Mercedes-Benz W154.
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Tazio Nuvolari
Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (16 November 1892 – 11 August 1953) was an Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante (The Flying Mantuan) or Nivola. He was the 1932 European Champion in Grand Prix motor racing. Dr Ferdinand Porsche called Nuvolari "The greatest driver of the past, the present, and the future.".
Tazio Nuvolari started out in motorcycle racing in 1920 at the age of 27. In 1925 he captured the 350cc European Championship. From then until the end of 1930, he competed both in motorcycle racing and in automobile racing. For 1931, he decided to concentrate fully on racing cars and agreed to race for Alfa Romeo's factory team, Alfa Corse. In 1932 he took two wins and a second place in the three European Championship Grands Prix, winning him the title. He won four other Grands Prix including a second Targa Florio and the Monaco Grand Prix.
After Alfa Romeo officially left Grand Prix racing, Nuvolari stayed on with Scuderia Ferrari who ran the Alfa Romeo cars semi-officially. During 1933, Nuvolari left the team for Maserati after becoming frustrated with the Alfa Romeo's performance. At the end of 1934, Maserati pulled out of Grand Prix racing and Nuvolari returned to Ferrari, who were reluctant to take him back, but were persuaded by Mussolini, the Italian prime minister.
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Ulrich Bez
Dr. Ulrich Bez (b. November 1943 in Bad Cannstatt, Germany) is a German-businessman and currently CEO of Aston Martin motorcars.
He holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Stuttgart. Throughout his career he has been responsible for product design and development at Porsche, BMW and Daewoo Motor.
While at Porsche, he led Vehicle Research and Development and motor sport programmes in Formula One and World Endurance Championship in Indianapolis and Le Mans. He directed design and development of the 911 Turbo, the Carrera RS 2.7, the 968 and the 993.
Dr. Bez was the first director of BMW Technik GmbH (BMW Technology), responsible for the design of BMW Z1.
At Daewoo Motor, Ulrich Bez was Vice President of Engineering (1993–1998), involved with the development of the series of models such as the Daewoo Matiz, Daewoo Lanos, Daewoo Leganza and the Daewoo Nubira.
Before he became the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. in July 2000, he also was a business advisor to the Ford Motor Company. He agreed to a five-year contract, with the sale of Aston Martin, by Ford to a consortium led David Richards, and John Sinders.
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Wendelin Wiedeking
Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking (born August 28, 1952 in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the German car manufacturer, Porsche AG, a post he held from 1993 through July 23, 2009. He was also speaker of the company's executive committee and was a member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen AG. He had his first child in 1992, Kinzie Wiedeking. His family is currently living in New York, NY.
Wiedeking grew up in Beckum, Germany and attended RWTH in Aachen. After graduation in 1978, he remained at RWTH for graduate school, in order to attain a doctorate in engineering. He earned his doctorate in 1983.[citation needed]
His professional career began in 1983 as Director's Assistant in the Production and Materials Management area of Porsche AG in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.
A mechanical engineer by training, he joined Porsche in 1983, aged 31. After a stint at Wiesbaden based Glyco AG, a subsidiary of auto-parts maker Federal-Mogul, he returned to Porsche as head of production in 1991, taking over two years later as Chairman (CEO) when Porsche was close to bankruptcy. On account of Porsche's large shareholding in Volkswagen, Wiedeking also found himself on the supervisory board of that company. Some industry analysts believed that Porsche could not survive on its own, but Wiedeking, who says he made his first million by the age of 30 with real estate investments, took on the challenge.
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World War I
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (World War II), and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.
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VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 2-2
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz.but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him, see the video and you know the true
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The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz.but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him, see the video and you know the true
Tribute Ferdinand Porsche : History of the 911
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- Duration: 8:58
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Here is a special video i wouldn't make but, the live is like that. This is a video to give a tribut at Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( grandson of Ferdinand Porsche ). It was him who design in 1963 maybe for lots of people THE Most famous sport car EVER! : The Porsche 911. Take the time to watch this video which shows you the history of the Porsche 911 from 1963 to 2012. Because it is thanks to this man, that a car still in live, 49 years after the 1st model!!! My apologies for some errors i did with cylinder of some cars. the Porsche 997 GT2 and GT2 RS have a 3.6l engine, not a 3.8L like i put. Hope you enjoy to watch this video. Thanks a lot. TheCaraf.
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Here is a special video i wouldn't make but, the live is like that. This is a video to give a tribut at Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( grandson of Ferdinand Porsche ). It was him who design in 1963 maybe for lots of people THE Most famous sport car EVER! : The Porsche 911. Take the time to watch this video which shows you the history of the Porsche 911 from 1963 to 2012. Because it is thanks to this man, that a car still in live, 49 years after the 1st model!!! My apologies for some errors i did with cylinder of some cars. the Porsche 997 GT2 and GT2 RS have a 3.6l engine, not a 3.8L like i put. Hope you enjoy to watch this video. Thanks a lot. TheCaraf.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 14884
- author: TheCaraf
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial, Time
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- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
For over 25 years, we have been dedicated to the beautiful parts that make up the whole. To look at our Porsche product inventory, please visit www.classicandspeedparts.com.
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For over 25 years, we have been dedicated to the beautiful parts that make up the whole. To look at our Porsche product inventory, please visit www.classicandspeedparts.com.
- published: 26 Mar 2009
- views: 18028
- author: ClassicSpeedParts
VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 1-2
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- Duration: 8:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz. but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him ( sorry i make a mistake the voice in the beginning was not the voice of Hitler)
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The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz. but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him ( sorry i make a mistake the voice in the beginning was not the voice of Hitler)
- published: 14 Aug 2007
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- author: Leendertmx
Ferdinand Porsche dead Sport Car Creator
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- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Ferdinand Porsche legendary designer of the Porsche 911 has died today. He passed away in Salzburg.
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Ferdinand Porsche legendary designer of the Porsche 911 has died today. He passed away in Salzburg.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
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- author: DailyWorldwideNews
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - The father of the Porsche 911.
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This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - the Porsche 911 and 904. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the legendary Porsche 911, died April 5. 2012 - 76 years old. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the Porsche sports car factories in Stuttgart and also developed VW's legendary 'bubble' in the 1930s. The Porsche 911 was designed and developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1963. Besides being an improvement of the legendary Porsche 365, the 911 was also meant to depart from the very obvious Volkswagen influences of Porsche's very first commercial car. The 356 was often cited as the Beetle's cousin, not only because of its appearance but also because both models shared the same parts. The Porsche 911 had its debut during the 1963 Frankfurt Automobile Show, although it was released to the public in 1965. Early on, it was evident that the Porsche 911 was on its way to becoming one of the major Porsche models, mainly due to public and critical reception as well as the innovations the car managed to incorporate into its design. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche stepped back from the daily management of the Porsche factory in 1972. He continued as an advisor and member of the firm's board of directors.
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This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - the Porsche 911 and 904. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the legendary Porsche 911, died April 5. 2012 - 76 years old. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the Porsche sports car factories in Stuttgart and also developed VW's legendary 'bubble' in the 1930s. The Porsche 911 was designed and developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1963. Besides being an improvement of the legendary Porsche 365, the 911 was also meant to depart from the very obvious Volkswagen influences of Porsche's very first commercial car. The 356 was often cited as the Beetle's cousin, not only because of its appearance but also because both models shared the same parts. The Porsche 911 had its debut during the 1963 Frankfurt Automobile Show, although it was released to the public in 1965. Early on, it was evident that the Porsche 911 was on its way to becoming one of the major Porsche models, mainly due to public and critical reception as well as the innovations the car managed to incorporate into its design. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche stepped back from the daily management of the Porsche factory in 1972. He continued as an advisor and member of the firm's board of directors.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 7640
- author: carshowclassic
Biografia de Ferdinand Porsche
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- Duration: 43:11
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
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Ferdinand Porsche.
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Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der 'Volkswagen' wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden 'Volksgenossen' erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des 'Volkswagens'. Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren 'Führer' einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte ...
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Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der 'Volkswagen' wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden 'Volksgenossen' erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des 'Volkswagens'. Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren 'Führer' einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte ...
- published: 08 Nov 2011
- views: 2907
- author: MrMilitaria3
FERDINAND GT3 RS - The World`s slowest Porsche
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- published: 20 May 2010
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Das Duell - Porsche gegen Volkswagen.
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- Duration: 52:18
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Sommer 2009: die Übernahmeschlacht der deutschen Automarken Porsche und Volkswagen tobt. Auf der einen Seite stehen Aufsichtsratschef Wolfgang Porsche und Manager Wiedeking, auf der anderen Seite VW-Aufsichtsratschef Ferdinand Piëch. Zuerst versucht Porsche, den viel größeren VW-Konzern zu schlucken. Doch dann bläst Volkswagen zum Gegenangriff und triumphiert. Porsche soll in den VW-Konzern integriert werden. Aber diese Übernahmeschlacht ist nicht nur einer der spannendsten deutschen Wirtschaftskrimis. Sie ist auch eine Familienfehde. Denn Wolfgang Porsche und Ferdinand Piëch sind Cousins, der Vater des einen und die Mutter des anderen waren Geschwister. Vorbild der Konkurrenten ist der gemeinsame Großvater, der legendäre Autobauer Ferdinand Porsche. Er gilt als Erfinder des Volkswagens, als Hitlers Konstrukteur des "Kraft durch Freude-Wagens" für jedermann. 1936 errichten Ferdinand Porsche und sein Sohn Ferry in Stuttgart ein Werk, um die Prototypen testen zu können. Ein Jahr später wird im späteren Wolfsburg der Grundstein für das VW-Werk gelegt. Ferdinand Porsches Schwiegersohn Anton Piëch wird Werksleiter.
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Sommer 2009: die Übernahmeschlacht der deutschen Automarken Porsche und Volkswagen tobt. Auf der einen Seite stehen Aufsichtsratschef Wolfgang Porsche und Manager Wiedeking, auf der anderen Seite VW-Aufsichtsratschef Ferdinand Piëch. Zuerst versucht Porsche, den viel größeren VW-Konzern zu schlucken. Doch dann bläst Volkswagen zum Gegenangriff und triumphiert. Porsche soll in den VW-Konzern integriert werden. Aber diese Übernahmeschlacht ist nicht nur einer der spannendsten deutschen Wirtschaftskrimis. Sie ist auch eine Familienfehde. Denn Wolfgang Porsche und Ferdinand Piëch sind Cousins, der Vater des einen und die Mutter des anderen waren Geschwister. Vorbild der Konkurrenten ist der gemeinsame Großvater, der legendäre Autobauer Ferdinand Porsche. Er gilt als Erfinder des Volkswagens, als Hitlers Konstrukteur des "Kraft durch Freude-Wagens" für jedermann. 1936 errichten Ferdinand Porsche und sein Sohn Ferry in Stuttgart ein Werk, um die Prototypen testen zu können. Ein Jahr später wird im späteren Wolfsburg der Grundstein für das VW-Werk gelegt. Ferdinand Porsches Schwiegersohn Anton Piëch wird Werksleiter.
- published: 10 Nov 2011
- views: 24017
- author: MrMilitaria3
1950 Porsche 356 Coupé Ferdinand, Porsche Museum - interview. CarshowClassic.com
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Check out: www.carshowclassic.com This 1950 Porsche 356 Coupé is located at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Hear the facinating story of this unique car directly from the manager of the Porsche archive.
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Check out: www.carshowclassic.com This 1950 Porsche 356 Coupé is located at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Hear the facinating story of this unique car directly from the manager of the Porsche archive.
- published: 04 Jan 2010
- views: 15315
- author: carshowclassic
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE.1940-1945. 52.018 is manufactured, only 10% still in operation.
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KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE.1940-1945. 52.018 is manufactured, only 10% still in operation.
- published: 08 Mar 2009
- views: 44954
- author: pistoletmachine
Porshce 911 - Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial
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- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
porsche911-hq.com From start to finish, Porsche is in a class by it self. Visit porsche911-hq.com and porsche911-hq.com for information on the various 911 models, including the Porsche Turbo and the Porsche 911.
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porsche911-hq.com From start to finish, Porsche is in a class by it self. Visit porsche911-hq.com and porsche911-hq.com for information on the various 911 models, including the Porsche Turbo and the Porsche 911.
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 2528
- author: porsche911x996
Hitlers Manager 5 - Ferdinand Porsche 1/5
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren "Führer" einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte Auftraggeber war, den man sich ...
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Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren "Führer" einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte Auftraggeber war, den man sich ...
- published: 09 Aug 2010
- views: 16238
- author: Papillon0966
Porsche - The World's First Hybrid
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- Duration: 1:46
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering innovations in automotive engineering since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. hc F.Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011 followed by future appearances as part of the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart.
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The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering innovations in automotive engineering since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. hc F.Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011 followed by future appearances as part of the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart.
- published: 19 Jun 2011
- views: 3048
- author: mrpitv
London Recording Connection Audio School (020) 3514 2940
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- Duration: 7:27
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
www.recordingconnection.co.uk The London Recording Connection is the best way to break into the audio recording and music producing fields in the UK. Students who are accepted train with a personal mentor--a working, professional, establish audio engineer or music producer inside a real recording studio. Students take a structured course curriculum, learn the ropes of the studio with hands-on training, apprentice for their mentor from day one, and make dozens of music industry connections while they train. UK Recording Connection Level 18 40 Bank Street Canary Wharf, London E14 5NR 020 3514 2940
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www.recordingconnection.co.uk The London Recording Connection is the best way to break into the audio recording and music producing fields in the UK. Students who are accepted train with a personal mentor--a working, professional, establish audio engineer or music producer inside a real recording studio. Students take a structured course curriculum, learn the ropes of the studio with hands-on training, apprentice for their mentor from day one, and make dozens of music industry connections while they train. UK Recording Connection Level 18 40 Bank Street Canary Wharf, London E14 5NR 020 3514 2940
- published: 16 Jul 2012
- views: 74
- author: RecordingConnection
Semper Vivus: Porsche World Premiere in Geneva
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- Duration: 1:46
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering innovations in automotive engineering since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. hc F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a stunning four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011 followed by future appearances as part of the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart.
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The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering innovations in automotive engineering since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. hc F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a stunning four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011 followed by future appearances as part of the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart.
- published: 23 Feb 2011
- views: 72502
- author: Porsche
scottish fold ferdinand porsche
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- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 22 Jul 2012
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Ferdinand Porsche zivotopis Ceske titulky
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- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 11 Aug 2010
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Hitlers Manager (5/5) Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker
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- Duration: 43:53
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter 1000 Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Hitlers Kriegspläne allerdings legten den "Volkswagen" auf Eis. Denn Porsches neu errichtetes KdF-Werk im heutigen Wolfsburg hatte bald schon für die Motorisierung der Wehrmacht zu sorgen. Porsche nahm alle Mittel in Anspruch, die das NS-Regime ihm bot: 15.000 Menschen, zwei Drittel der Gesamtbelegschaft, schufteten auf dem Höhepunkt der Kriegsproduktion als Zwangsarbeiter im Volkswagenwerk. Ein strammer Nazi aber ist der Tüftler aus dem ...
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Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter 1000 Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Hitlers Kriegspläne allerdings legten den "Volkswagen" auf Eis. Denn Porsches neu errichtetes KdF-Werk im heutigen Wolfsburg hatte bald schon für die Motorisierung der Wehrmacht zu sorgen. Porsche nahm alle Mittel in Anspruch, die das NS-Regime ihm bot: 15.000 Menschen, zwei Drittel der Gesamtbelegschaft, schufteten auf dem Höhepunkt der Kriegsproduktion als Zwangsarbeiter im Volkswagenwerk. Ein strammer Nazi aber ist der Tüftler aus dem ...
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 1070
- author: TheDokuPower
Lohner Porsche, l'auto elettrica di Ferdinand Porsche del 1901 - Electric Motor News n° 7 (2011)
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- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Lohner Porsche, l'auto elettrica di Ferdinand Porsche del 1901 - Electric Motor News n° 7 (2011) L'auto elettrica con il motore nei mozzi delle ruote non è una scoperta tecnica dei nostri giorni. Ferdinand Porsche, con grande visione di futuro, a costruito la LohnerPorsche elettrica e anche quella ibrida. Ora la macchina è stata completamente restaurata ed è stata presentata nello stand Porsche dello scorso Salone di Ginevra. Lilia Marcucci spiega la bellissima storia della LohnerPorsche elettrica... dei primi anni del '900. Immagini e musica da Porsche AG.
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Lohner Porsche, l'auto elettrica di Ferdinand Porsche del 1901 - Electric Motor News n° 7 (2011) L'auto elettrica con il motore nei mozzi delle ruote non è una scoperta tecnica dei nostri giorni. Ferdinand Porsche, con grande visione di futuro, a costruito la LohnerPorsche elettrica e anche quella ibrida. Ora la macchina è stata completamente restaurata ed è stata presentata nello stand Porsche dello scorso Salone di Ginevra. Lilia Marcucci spiega la bellissima storia della LohnerPorsche elettrica... dei primi anni del '900. Immagini e musica da Porsche AG.
- published: 07 Mar 2011
- views: 2368
- author: motornewsitaly
Ferdinand Porsche
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- Duration: 1:00
- Updated: 31 Mar 2012
Même les plus jeunes savent que les Porsche sont des voitures d'exception, une sorte de rêve à quatre roues. Les Porsche sont le résultat du travail de toute une vie de deux hommes très différents : Ferdinand et Ferry Porsche. Ce film est leur histoire. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
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Même les plus jeunes savent que les Porsche sont des voitures d'exception, une sorte de rêve à quatre roues. Les Porsche sont le résultat du travail de toute une vie de deux hommes très différents : Ferdinand et Ferry Porsche. Ce film est leur histoire. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
- published: 21 Oct 2007
- views: 11008
- author: vodeotv
Porsche Presents First Functional, Full Hybrid Car After 111 Years
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- Duration: 1:59
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011. TheAutoChannel.com has the complete story
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In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011. TheAutoChannel.com has the complete story
- published: 25 Feb 2011
- views: 1132
- author: TheAutoChannel
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VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 2-2
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz.but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him, see the video and you know the true
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The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz.but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him, see the video and you know the true
- published: 14 Aug 2007
- views: 14241
- author: Leendertmx
Tribute Ferdinand Porsche : History of the 911
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- Duration: 8:58
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Here is a special video i wouldn't make but, the live is like that. This is a video to give a tribut at Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( grandson of Ferdinand Porsche ). It was him who design in 1963 maybe for lots of people THE Most famous sport car EVER! : The Porsche 911. Take the time to watch this video which shows you the history of the Porsche 911 from 1963 to 2012. Because it is thanks to this man, that a car still in live, 49 years after the 1st model!!! My apologies for some errors i did with cylinder of some cars. the Porsche 997 GT2 and GT2 RS have a 3.6l engine, not a 3.8L like i put. Hope you enjoy to watch this video. Thanks a lot. TheCaraf.
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Here is a special video i wouldn't make but, the live is like that. This is a video to give a tribut at Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( grandson of Ferdinand Porsche ). It was him who design in 1963 maybe for lots of people THE Most famous sport car EVER! : The Porsche 911. Take the time to watch this video which shows you the history of the Porsche 911 from 1963 to 2012. Because it is thanks to this man, that a car still in live, 49 years after the 1st model!!! My apologies for some errors i did with cylinder of some cars. the Porsche 997 GT2 and GT2 RS have a 3.6l engine, not a 3.8L like i put. Hope you enjoy to watch this video. Thanks a lot. TheCaraf.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 14809
- author: TheCaraf
Porsche Independence
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- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
An interview with Ferry Porsche describing why being independent is so important to Porsche.
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An interview with Ferry Porsche describing why being independent is so important to Porsche.
- published: 21 Jan 2009
- views: 8310
- author: gtpurelyporsche
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial, Time
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- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
For over 25 years, we have been dedicated to the beautiful parts that make up the whole. To look at our Porsche product inventory, please visit www.classicandspeedparts.com.
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For over 25 years, we have been dedicated to the beautiful parts that make up the whole. To look at our Porsche product inventory, please visit www.classicandspeedparts.com.
- published: 26 Mar 2009
- views: 18006
- author: ClassicSpeedParts
Voyages- The Volkswagen Beetle
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- Duration: 45:27
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
The world's most popular car, the Volkswagen Beetle. Included: a profile of designer Ferdinand Porsche.
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The world's most popular car, the Volkswagen Beetle. Included: a profile of designer Ferdinand Porsche.
- published: 07 Mar 2012
- views: 13110
- author: HistoryFeed
1950 Porsche 356 Coupé Ferdinand, Porsche Museum - interview. CarshowClassic.com
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Check out: www.carshowclassic.com This 1950 Porsche 356 Coupé is located at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Hear the facinating story of this unique car directly from the manager of the Porsche archive.
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Check out: www.carshowclassic.com This 1950 Porsche 356 Coupé is located at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Hear the facinating story of this unique car directly from the manager of the Porsche archive.
- published: 04 Jan 2010
- views: 15274
- author: carshowclassic
VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 1-2
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- Duration: 8:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz. but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him ( sorry i make a mistake the voice in the beginning was not the voice of Hitler)
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The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz. but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him ( sorry i make a mistake the voice in the beginning was not the voice of Hitler)
- published: 14 Aug 2007
- views: 26753
- author: Leendertmx
Ferdinand Porsche dead Sport Car Creator
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- Duration: 1:16
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Ferdinand Porsche legendary designer of the Porsche 911 has died today. He passed away in Salzburg.
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Ferdinand Porsche legendary designer of the Porsche 911 has died today. He passed away in Salzburg.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 630
- author: DailyWorldwideNews
Das Duell - Porsche gegen Volkswagen.
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- Duration: 52:18
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Sommer 2009: die Übernahmeschlacht der deutschen Automarken Porsche und Volkswagen tobt. Auf der einen Seite stehen Aufsichtsratschef Wolfgang Porsche und Manager Wiedeking, auf der anderen Seite VW-Aufsichtsratschef Ferdinand Piëch. Zuerst versucht Porsche, den viel größeren VW-Konzern zu schlucken. Doch dann bläst Volkswagen zum Gegenangriff und triumphiert. Porsche soll in den VW-Konzern integriert werden. Aber diese Übernahmeschlacht ist nicht nur einer der spannendsten deutschen Wirtschaftskrimis. Sie ist auch eine Familienfehde. Denn Wolfgang Porsche und Ferdinand Piëch sind Cousins, der Vater des einen und die Mutter des anderen waren Geschwister. Vorbild der Konkurrenten ist der gemeinsame Großvater, der legendäre Autobauer Ferdinand Porsche. Er gilt als Erfinder des Volkswagens, als Hitlers Konstrukteur des "Kraft durch Freude-Wagens" für jedermann. 1936 errichten Ferdinand Porsche und sein Sohn Ferry in Stuttgart ein Werk, um die Prototypen testen zu können. Ein Jahr später wird im späteren Wolfsburg der Grundstein für das VW-Werk gelegt. Ferdinand Porsches Schwiegersohn Anton Piëch wird Werksleiter.
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Sommer 2009: die Übernahmeschlacht der deutschen Automarken Porsche und Volkswagen tobt. Auf der einen Seite stehen Aufsichtsratschef Wolfgang Porsche und Manager Wiedeking, auf der anderen Seite VW-Aufsichtsratschef Ferdinand Piëch. Zuerst versucht Porsche, den viel größeren VW-Konzern zu schlucken. Doch dann bläst Volkswagen zum Gegenangriff und triumphiert. Porsche soll in den VW-Konzern integriert werden. Aber diese Übernahmeschlacht ist nicht nur einer der spannendsten deutschen Wirtschaftskrimis. Sie ist auch eine Familienfehde. Denn Wolfgang Porsche und Ferdinand Piëch sind Cousins, der Vater des einen und die Mutter des anderen waren Geschwister. Vorbild der Konkurrenten ist der gemeinsame Großvater, der legendäre Autobauer Ferdinand Porsche. Er gilt als Erfinder des Volkswagens, als Hitlers Konstrukteur des "Kraft durch Freude-Wagens" für jedermann. 1936 errichten Ferdinand Porsche und sein Sohn Ferry in Stuttgart ein Werk, um die Prototypen testen zu können. Ein Jahr später wird im späteren Wolfsburg der Grundstein für das VW-Werk gelegt. Ferdinand Porsches Schwiegersohn Anton Piëch wird Werksleiter.
- published: 10 Nov 2011
- views: 23900
- author: MrMilitaria3
Biografia de Ferdinand Porsche
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- Duration: 43:11
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
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Ferdinand Porsche.
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Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der 'Volkswagen' wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden 'Volksgenossen' erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des 'Volkswagens'. Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren 'Führer' einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte ...
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Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der 'Volkswagen' wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden 'Volksgenossen' erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des 'Volkswagens'. Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren 'Führer' einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte ...
- published: 08 Nov 2011
- views: 2882
- author: MrMilitaria3
FERDINAND GT3 RS - The World`s slowest Porsche
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- Duration: 6:21
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Ferdinand.han-lan.com to FAHRRADI FARFALLA www.youtube.com
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Ferdinand.han-lan.com to FAHRRADI FARFALLA www.youtube.com
- published: 20 May 2010
- views: 3023561
- author: HAN LAN
Hitlers Manager 5 - Ferdinand Porsche 1/5
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren "Führer" einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte Auftraggeber war, den man sich ...
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Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren "Führer" einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte Auftraggeber war, den man sich ...
- published: 09 Aug 2010
- views: 16216
- author: Papillon0966
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE.1940-1945. 52.018 is manufactured, only 10% still in operation.
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KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE.1940-1945. 52.018 is manufactured, only 10% still in operation.
- published: 08 Mar 2009
- views: 44948
- author: pistoletmachine
Porshce 911 - Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial
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- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
porsche911-hq.com From start to finish, Porsche is in a class by it self. Visit porsche911-hq.com and porsche911-hq.com for information on the various 911 models, including the Porsche Turbo and the Porsche 911.
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porsche911-hq.com From start to finish, Porsche is in a class by it self. Visit porsche911-hq.com and porsche911-hq.com for information on the various 911 models, including the Porsche Turbo and the Porsche 911.
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 2528
- author: porsche911x996
Hitlers Manager (5/5) Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker
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- Duration: 43:53
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter 1000 Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Hitlers Kriegspläne allerdings legten den "Volkswagen" auf Eis. Denn Porsches neu errichtetes KdF-Werk im heutigen Wolfsburg hatte bald schon für die Motorisierung der Wehrmacht zu sorgen. Porsche nahm alle Mittel in Anspruch, die das NS-Regime ihm bot: 15.000 Menschen, zwei Drittel der Gesamtbelegschaft, schufteten auf dem Höhepunkt der Kriegsproduktion als Zwangsarbeiter im Volkswagenwerk. Ein strammer Nazi aber ist der Tüftler aus dem ...
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Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter 1000 Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Hitlers Kriegspläne allerdings legten den "Volkswagen" auf Eis. Denn Porsches neu errichtetes KdF-Werk im heutigen Wolfsburg hatte bald schon für die Motorisierung der Wehrmacht zu sorgen. Porsche nahm alle Mittel in Anspruch, die das NS-Regime ihm bot: 15.000 Menschen, zwei Drittel der Gesamtbelegschaft, schufteten auf dem Höhepunkt der Kriegsproduktion als Zwangsarbeiter im Volkswagenwerk. Ein strammer Nazi aber ist der Tüftler aus dem ...
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 1070
- author: TheDokuPower
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - The father of the Porsche 911.
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - the Porsche 911 and 904. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the legendary Porsche 911, died April 5. 2012 - 76 years old. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the Porsche sports car factories in Stuttgart and also developed VW's legendary 'bubble' in the 1930s. The Porsche 911 was designed and developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1963. Besides being an improvement of the legendary Porsche 365, the 911 was also meant to depart from the very obvious Volkswagen influences of Porsche's very first commercial car. The 356 was often cited as the Beetle's cousin, not only because of its appearance but also because both models shared the same parts. The Porsche 911 had its debut during the 1963 Frankfurt Automobile Show, although it was released to the public in 1965. Early on, it was evident that the Porsche 911 was on its way to becoming one of the major Porsche models, mainly due to public and critical reception as well as the innovations the car managed to incorporate into its design. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche stepped back from the daily management of the Porsche factory in 1972. He continued as an advisor and member of the firm's board of directors.
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This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - the Porsche 911 and 904. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the legendary Porsche 911, died April 5. 2012 - 76 years old. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the Porsche sports car factories in Stuttgart and also developed VW's legendary 'bubble' in the 1930s. The Porsche 911 was designed and developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1963. Besides being an improvement of the legendary Porsche 365, the 911 was also meant to depart from the very obvious Volkswagen influences of Porsche's very first commercial car. The 356 was often cited as the Beetle's cousin, not only because of its appearance but also because both models shared the same parts. The Porsche 911 had its debut during the 1963 Frankfurt Automobile Show, although it was released to the public in 1965. Early on, it was evident that the Porsche 911 was on its way to becoming one of the major Porsche models, mainly due to public and critical reception as well as the innovations the car managed to incorporate into its design. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche stepped back from the daily management of the Porsche factory in 1972. He continued as an advisor and member of the firm's board of directors.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 7633
- author: carshowclassic
scottish fold ferdinand porsche
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- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 22 Jul 2012
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Ferdinand Porsche zivotopis Ceske titulky
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- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 11 Aug 2010
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Porsche - The World's First Hybrid
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- Duration: 1:46
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering innovations in automotive engineering since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. hc F.Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011 followed by future appearances as part of the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart.
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The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering innovations in automotive engineering since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, founding father of the present-day Dr. Ing. hc F.Porsche AG, Stuttgart, entered unchartered territory. With the first functional, full-hybrid car in the world, the 'Semper Vivus' ('always alive'), the principle of the serial hybrid drive had been born. In a four year project the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart had the Semper Vivus recreated. 111 years after this ground breaking innovation by Ferdinand Porsche the Semper Vivus will again drive into the limelight at the Geneva Motor Show 2011 followed by future appearances as part of the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart.
- published: 19 Jun 2011
- views: 3048
- author: mrpitv
Lohner Porsche, l'auto elettrica di Ferdinand Porsche del 1901 - Electric Motor News n° 7 (2011)
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- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Lohner Porsche, l'auto elettrica di Ferdinand Porsche del 1901 - Electric Motor News n° 7 (2011) L'auto elettrica con il motore nei mozzi delle ruote non è una scoperta tecnica dei nostri giorni. Ferdinand Porsche, con grande visione di futuro, a costruito la LohnerPorsche elettrica e anche quella ibrida. Ora la macchina è stata completamente restaurata ed è stata presentata nello stand Porsche dello scorso Salone di Ginevra. Lilia Marcucci spiega la bellissima storia della LohnerPorsche elettrica... dei primi anni del '900. Immagini e musica da Porsche AG.
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Lohner Porsche, l'auto elettrica di Ferdinand Porsche del 1901 - Electric Motor News n° 7 (2011) L'auto elettrica con il motore nei mozzi delle ruote non è una scoperta tecnica dei nostri giorni. Ferdinand Porsche, con grande visione di futuro, a costruito la LohnerPorsche elettrica e anche quella ibrida. Ora la macchina è stata completamente restaurata ed è stata presentata nello stand Porsche dello scorso Salone di Ginevra. Lilia Marcucci spiega la bellissima storia della LohnerPorsche elettrica... dei primi anni del '900. Immagini e musica da Porsche AG.
- published: 07 Mar 2011
- views: 2361
- author: motornewsitaly
La Storia Siamo Noi-I manager di Hitler.Ferdinand Porche-5.avi
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- Duration: 9:24
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
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Porsche Semper Vivus, the first hybrid car ever made, in 1900
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
The first hybrid car ever made, conceived by genius Ferdinand Porsche some 110 years ago. With hub motors! The car was so much in advance of its time that it quickly disappeared and Porsche had to rebuilt one from scratch in 2009/2010 to make the car of this video. You may find more information about Porsche hybrids and other green cars (or tech) at www.motornature.com
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The first hybrid car ever made, conceived by genius Ferdinand Porsche some 110 years ago. With hub motors! The car was so much in advance of its time that it quickly disappeared and Porsche had to rebuilt one from scratch in 2009/2010 to make the car of this video. You may find more information about Porsche hybrids and other green cars (or tech) at www.motornature.com
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 998
- author: moteurnature
9:55
VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 2-2
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz.but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he ...
published: 14 Aug 2007
author: Leendertmx
VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 2-2
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz.but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him, see the video and you know the true
- published: 14 Aug 2007
- views: 14241
- author: Leendertmx
8:58
Tribute Ferdinand Porsche : History of the 911
Here is a special video i wouldn't make but, the live is like that. This is a video to giv...
published: 06 Apr 2012
author: TheCaraf
Tribute Ferdinand Porsche : History of the 911
Here is a special video i wouldn't make but, the live is like that. This is a video to give a tribut at Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( grandson of Ferdinand Porsche ). It was him who design in 1963 maybe for lots of people THE Most famous sport car EVER! : The Porsche 911. Take the time to watch this video which shows you the history of the Porsche 911 from 1963 to 2012. Because it is thanks to this man, that a car still in live, 49 years after the 1st model!!! My apologies for some errors i did with cylinder of some cars. the Porsche 997 GT2 and GT2 RS have a 3.6l engine, not a 3.8L like i put. Hope you enjoy to watch this video. Thanks a lot. TheCaraf.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 14809
- author: TheCaraf
2:01
Porsche Independence
An interview with Ferry Porsche describing why being independent is so important to Porsch...
published: 21 Jan 2009
author: gtpurelyporsche
Porsche Independence
An interview with Ferry Porsche describing why being independent is so important to Porsche.
- published: 21 Jan 2009
- views: 8310
- author: gtpurelyporsche
2:01
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial, Time
For over 25 years, we have been dedicated to the beautiful parts that make up the whole. T...
published: 26 Mar 2009
author: ClassicSpeedParts
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial, Time
For over 25 years, we have been dedicated to the beautiful parts that make up the whole. To look at our Porsche product inventory, please visit www.classicandspeedparts.com.
- published: 26 Mar 2009
- views: 18006
- author: ClassicSpeedParts
45:27
Voyages- The Volkswagen Beetle
The world's most popular car, the Volkswagen Beetle. Included: a profile of designer Ferdi...
published: 07 Mar 2012
author: HistoryFeed
Voyages- The Volkswagen Beetle
The world's most popular car, the Volkswagen Beetle. Included: a profile of designer Ferdinand Porsche.
- published: 07 Mar 2012
- views: 13110
- author: HistoryFeed
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1950 Porsche 356 Coupé Ferdinand, Porsche Museum - interview. CarshowClassic.com
Check out: www.carshowclassic.com This 1950 Porsche 356 Coupé is located at the Porsche Mu...
published: 04 Jan 2010
author: carshowclassic
1950 Porsche 356 Coupé Ferdinand, Porsche Museum - interview. CarshowClassic.com
Check out: www.carshowclassic.com This 1950 Porsche 356 Coupé is located at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Hear the facinating story of this unique car directly from the manager of the Porsche archive.
- published: 04 Jan 2010
- views: 15274
- author: carshowclassic
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VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 1-2
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz. but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he...
published: 14 Aug 2007
author: Leendertmx
VW Beetle History,Ferdinand Porsche ,Hitler,Joseph Ganz 1-2
The real Father of the Beetle was Joseph Ganz. but he was jewish, when Hitler know that he put Joseph Ganz in Jale. When Joseph Ganz was out of Jale he go to Switserland, because the Nazi's want to kill him ( sorry i make a mistake the voice in the beginning was not the voice of Hitler)
- published: 14 Aug 2007
- views: 26753
- author: Leendertmx
1:16
Ferdinand Porsche dead Sport Car Creator
Ferdinand Porsche legendary designer of the Porsche 911 has died today. He passed away in ...
published: 06 Apr 2012
author: DailyWorldwideNews
Ferdinand Porsche dead Sport Car Creator
Ferdinand Porsche legendary designer of the Porsche 911 has died today. He passed away in Salzburg.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 630
- author: DailyWorldwideNews
52:18
Das Duell - Porsche gegen Volkswagen.
Sommer 2009: die Übernahmeschlacht der deutschen Automarken Porsche und Volkswagen tobt. A...
published: 10 Nov 2011
author: MrMilitaria3
Das Duell - Porsche gegen Volkswagen.
Sommer 2009: die Übernahmeschlacht der deutschen Automarken Porsche und Volkswagen tobt. Auf der einen Seite stehen Aufsichtsratschef Wolfgang Porsche und Manager Wiedeking, auf der anderen Seite VW-Aufsichtsratschef Ferdinand Piëch. Zuerst versucht Porsche, den viel größeren VW-Konzern zu schlucken. Doch dann bläst Volkswagen zum Gegenangriff und triumphiert. Porsche soll in den VW-Konzern integriert werden. Aber diese Übernahmeschlacht ist nicht nur einer der spannendsten deutschen Wirtschaftskrimis. Sie ist auch eine Familienfehde. Denn Wolfgang Porsche und Ferdinand Piëch sind Cousins, der Vater des einen und die Mutter des anderen waren Geschwister. Vorbild der Konkurrenten ist der gemeinsame Großvater, der legendäre Autobauer Ferdinand Porsche. Er gilt als Erfinder des Volkswagens, als Hitlers Konstrukteur des "Kraft durch Freude-Wagens" für jedermann. 1936 errichten Ferdinand Porsche und sein Sohn Ferry in Stuttgart ein Werk, um die Prototypen testen zu können. Ein Jahr später wird im späteren Wolfsburg der Grundstein für das VW-Werk gelegt. Ferdinand Porsches Schwiegersohn Anton Piëch wird Werksleiter.
- published: 10 Nov 2011
- views: 23900
- author: MrMilitaria3
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Biografia de Ferdinand Porsche
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published: 10 Jun 2012
author: daniel navarro
Biografia de Ferdinand Porsche
- published: 10 Jun 2012
- views: 841
- author: daniel navarro
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Ferdinand Porsche.
Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ei...
published: 08 Nov 2011
author: MrMilitaria3
Ferdinand Porsche.
Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der 'Volkswagen' wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden 'Volksgenossen' erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des 'Volkswagens'. Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren 'Führer' einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte ...
- published: 08 Nov 2011
- views: 2882
- author: MrMilitaria3
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FERDINAND GT3 RS - The World`s slowest Porsche
Ferdinand.han-lan.com to FAHRRADI FARFALLA www.youtube.com...
published: 20 May 2010
author: HAN LAN
FERDINAND GT3 RS - The World`s slowest Porsche
Ferdinand.han-lan.com to FAHRRADI FARFALLA www.youtube.com
- published: 20 May 2010
- views: 3023561
- author: HAN LAN
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Hitlers Manager 5 - Ferdinand Porsche 1/5
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und N...
published: 09 Aug 2010
author: Papillon0966
Hitlers Manager 5 - Ferdinand Porsche 1/5
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Er wusste um die Vorliebe seines österreichischen Landsmanns für schnelle Autos, für Straßenbau und Motorsport. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende, - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 - nur zwölf Tage nachdem Hitler an die Macht kam - eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter tausend Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Er übernahm Hitlers Preisvorstellung, wohlwissend, dass sein Fahrzeug um die Hälfte teurer sein würde. Doch dem Regime ging es darum, die Volksgemeinschaft auf ihren "Führer" einzuschwören. Porsche war dabei Hitlers Gehilfe, während Hitler für Porsche der größte Auftraggeber war, den man sich ...
- published: 09 Aug 2010
- views: 16216
- author: Papillon0966
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KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE.1940-1945. 52.018 is manufactured, only 10% st...
published: 08 Mar 2009
author: pistoletmachine
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE
KDF KUBELWAGEN TYPE 82 by FERDINAND PORSCHE.1940-1945. 52.018 is manufactured, only 10% still in operation.
- published: 08 Mar 2009
- views: 44948
- author: pistoletmachine
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Get a life. Buy my Porsche
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published: 28 May 2011
author: hunkies
Get a life. Buy my Porsche
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Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie
Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie...
published: 17 Sep 2012
author: Ferdinand Porsche FernFH
Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie
Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie
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Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik
Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik...
published: 14 Sep 2012
author: Ferdinand Porsche FernFH
Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik
Vorstellung Studiengang Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik
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Vorstellung Studiengang Master Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie
Vorstellung Studiengang Master Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie...
published: 24 Oct 2012
author: Ferdinand Porsche FernFH
Vorstellung Studiengang Master Betriebswirtschaft & Wirtschaftspsychologie
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Porshce 911 - Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial
porsche911-hq.com From start to finish, Porsche is in a class by it self. Visit porsche911...
published: 02 Jun 2011
author: porsche911x996
Porshce 911 - Dr. Ferdinand Porsche Commercial
porsche911-hq.com From start to finish, Porsche is in a class by it self. Visit porsche911-hq.com and porsche911-hq.com for information on the various 911 models, including the Porsche Turbo and the Porsche 911.
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 2528
- author: porsche911x996
43:53
Hitlers Manager (5/5) Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und N...
published: 14 Oct 2012
author: TheDokuPower
Hitlers Manager (5/5) Ferdinand Porsche - Der Techniker
Als er in Hitlers Dienste trat, war Ferdinand Porsche ein Auto-Konstrukteur von Rang und Namen. Doch bei etablierten Autobauern galten viele seiner Ideen als zu kostspielig und undurchführbar - deshalb wandte sich Porsche an den mächtigsten Mann im Staat: Adolf Hitler. Der "Volkswagen" wurde ihr gemeinsames Projekt - und später zur Legende - als Krieg und Diktatur längst vorüber waren. Am 11. Februar 1933 eröffnete der neue Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler in Berlin die Automobilausstellung mit einer programmatischen Rede. Die Deutschen sollten ein Volk von Autofahrern werden. Das Fahrzeug sollte für jeden "Volksgenossen" erschwinglich sein. Porsche war begeistert, denn auch sein Traum war die Massenmotorisierung - er unterbreitete Hitler seine Konzepte. Der NS-Führer beauftragte Porsche mit der Konstruktion des "Volkswagens". Jeder Preis unter 1000 Mark sei ihm recht, der Staat würde jedes Defizit decken. Wenn die Industrie nicht wolle, so werde man ein eigenes Werk bauen. Das war der Triumph der Idee - genau das, was Porsche wollte. Hitlers Kriegspläne allerdings legten den "Volkswagen" auf Eis. Denn Porsches neu errichtetes KdF-Werk im heutigen Wolfsburg hatte bald schon für die Motorisierung der Wehrmacht zu sorgen. Porsche nahm alle Mittel in Anspruch, die das NS-Regime ihm bot: 15.000 Menschen, zwei Drittel der Gesamtbelegschaft, schufteten auf dem Höhepunkt der Kriegsproduktion als Zwangsarbeiter im Volkswagenwerk. Ein strammer Nazi aber ist der Tüftler aus dem ...
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 1070
- author: TheDokuPower
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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - The father of the Porsche 911.
This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - the Porsche 9...
published: 06 Apr 2012
author: carshowclassic
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - The father of the Porsche 911.
This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche - the Porsche 911 and 904. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the legendary Porsche 911, died April 5. 2012 - 76 years old. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the Porsche sports car factories in Stuttgart and also developed VW's legendary 'bubble' in the 1930s. The Porsche 911 was designed and developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1963. Besides being an improvement of the legendary Porsche 365, the 911 was also meant to depart from the very obvious Volkswagen influences of Porsche's very first commercial car. The 356 was often cited as the Beetle's cousin, not only because of its appearance but also because both models shared the same parts. The Porsche 911 had its debut during the 1963 Frankfurt Automobile Show, although it was released to the public in 1965. Early on, it was evident that the Porsche 911 was on its way to becoming one of the major Porsche models, mainly due to public and critical reception as well as the innovations the car managed to incorporate into its design. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche stepped back from the daily management of the Porsche factory in 1972. He continued as an advisor and member of the firm's board of directors.
- published: 06 Apr 2012
- views: 7633
- author: carshowclassic
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14 Jan 2013
Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north ... Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said France’s intervention on Friday prevented the advancing rebels from seizing Bamako and vowed air strikes would continue ... – ... Doubt....(size: 6.6Kb)
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16 Jan 2013
YURI KAGEYAMA. AP Business Writers= TOKYO (AP) — Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet ... The 787, known as the Dreamliner, is Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced jet, and the company is counting heavily on its success ... The grounding was done voluntarily by the airlines ... The U.S ... U.S....(size: 11.1Kb)
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14 Jan 2013
Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings ... "I am ecstatic ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 4.2Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
14 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip. "To even entertain the idea of the United States of America not paying our bills is irresponsible. It's absurd," Obama said in a press conference ... "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy," Obama said ... Also on HuffPost ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny
15 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON. Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic ... Last year’s total is the highest since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001 ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
01 Jan 2013
Notable sports deaths in 2012.. Administrators.. Edgar Barrett, 81; Roland Dale, 84; Paul Dee, 65; Bill Jones, 48; Louis Stout, 73; George Wine, 81. ———. Art.. LeRoy Neiman, 91. ———. Australian Rules Football. ... ——— ... Jorge Martinez Boero, 38; Jerry Grant, 77; Bill Jenkins, 81; Joseph Mattioli, 86; Cotton Owens, 88; Ferdinand Porsche, 76; Lee Richardson, 33; Gareth Roberts, 24; Carroll Shelby, 89; Sam Walther, 65; Sid Watkins, 84. ———. Baseball.....(size: 7.3Kb)
CNBC
28 Dec 2012
A five-justice panel of the New York State appeals court in Manhattan unanimously found that Porsche had met its "heavy burden" to establish that the state was the wrong place in which to bring the lawsuit ... VW, Porsche Broadly Agree on Outline of Sale) ... Volkswagen Halts Talks With Porsche on Tie-Up) ... Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of his namesake sports car company, also invented the Volkswagen Beetle....(size: 4.4Kb)
Business Insider
28 Dec 2012
Consumers Just Aren't Interested In Electric Cars. Audi Will Spend $17.2 Billion On Expansion To Compete With BMW. A Museum's Amazing Collection Of Classic Cars Is Open To The Public For The First Time ... Nothing seemingly could blunt the industry's momentum. Hiring soared at plants around the U.S ... Ferdinand Porsche, designer of the signature Porsche 911 sports coupe and descendant of the founder of the automotive giant, died ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7....(size: 9.1Kb)
Philadelphia Daily News
27 Dec 2012
2012 brought the end of countless lives, all near and dear to somebody. Here are some many will remember for years to come. Gallery. Gone, but never forgotten. John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer. Posted. Thursday, December 27, 2012, 3.01 AM. Our losses remind us of all we've had, all the wonderful people who have moved, are moving, and will move among us ... A local moment ... ... U.S ... Ferdinand A. Porsche, 76, designed the beautiful Porsche 911....(size: 24.8Kb)
Bloomberg
26 Dec 2012
The first man on the moon, the first U.S. woman in space and the first black Federal Reserve member were among the notable deaths in 2012. Neil Armstrong, 82, died in August; Sally Ride, 61, in July; and Andrew Brimmer, 86, in October ... stocks in 1982 and the dot-com bust almost 20 years later ... universities ... Ferdinand A. Porsche, 76. He designed the original Porsche 911 sports car in 1962 and later created race cars for the German automaker....(size: 42.1Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
At its inaugural meeting the Supervisory Board of Porsche Holding Stuttgart unanimously elected Dr. Wolfgang Porsche as its Chairman ... Ferdinand Porsche, and son of Ferry Porsche is also Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Dr ... Porsche AG and Porsche Automobil Holding SE and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG ... Porsche AG....(size: 2.0Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
Porsche Automobil Holding SE) Dr. Wolfgang Porsche elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board ... At its inaugural meeting the Supervisory Board of Porsche Holding Stuttgart unanimously elected Dr. Wolfgang Porsche as its Chairman ... Ferdinand Porsche, and son of Ferry Porsche is also Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Dr ... Porsche AG and Porsche Automobil Holding SE and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG ... Porsche AG....(size: 5.5Kb)
Belfast Telegraph
11 Dec 2012
Truth is, there have been so many great cars I have enjoyed down the years that I can’t play favourites ... But let’s turn the clock forwards to today ... There are strong visual cues to its ancestry but the present Volkswagen Beetle is a far different animal from the “people’s car” that Dr Ferdinand Porsche designed in the late 1930s at the behest of one Adolf Hitler ... I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the car ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
08 Dec 2012
for an ex-stock-car brat like me, there are just a few too many Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris primping and pouting in these garages ... PORSCHE -- ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES ... Ludvigsen details Ferdinand Porsche's work for Cisitalia, where the successful use of Fiat parts very likely played a role in the decision to base his own sports car on the lowly Volkswagen Beetle....(size: 12.3Kb)
Independent online (SA)
07 Dec 2012
Ferdinand Porsche was given the order for the development, and it would be named as the people’s car - which, as you know, is what Volkswagen means in German ... Skip forward almost 80 years and I can’t help but wonder if Ferdinand would be proud of what’s become of his people’s car ... ... ... You have to remind yourself that you’re driving a Beetle and that’s the part I think Ferdinand wouldn’t like ... ....(size: 6.1Kb)
DNA India
30 Nov 2012
But they gave it back its original name â Volkswagen or âPeopleâs Car ââ and renamed the town Wolfsburg after the local castle. From the blueprints they had discovered, they restarted the production of the car designed for Hitler by Dr Ferdinand Porsche â who founded the Porsche car dynasty â with an order for 20,000 Type 1 Beetles for the British army and in doing so helped get Germany working again after the war ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
29 Nov 2012
If Porsche were a kingdom in Game of Thrones, the 911 would be a stalwart yet paranoid ruler who keeps a wary eye on the Cayman--the younger, charismatic and upstart cousin destined to usurp the throne ... But not being a 911 also has its stylistic perks, because Porsche designers aren't tied down to the same rear-engined shape penned by Ferdinand Porsche in 1948....(size: 2.7Kb)
CNBC
27 Nov 2012
Porsche once powered German ploughmen through the 1950s and, from Italy, Ferruccio Lamborghini's ... Ferdinand Porsche's tractor engines went out of production in 1963; Lamborghini's tractors and supercars are long divorced, the former now part of Italy's Same Deutz-Fahr, the cars part of a stable run by Germany's Volkswagen that also includes Porsche....(size: 16.0Kb)
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This article is about the founder of Porsche automobiles. For his grandson, the designer of the Porsche 911, see Ferdinand Alexander Porsche.
| Ferdinand Porsche | |
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| Born | (1875-09-03)3 September 1875 Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 30 January 1951(1951-01-30) (aged 75) Stuttgart, West Germany[1] |
| Nationality | Austro-Hungarian, Austrian, German |
| Children | Ferry Porsche and Louisa Porsche |
| Work | |
| Significant projects | Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, Tiger I, Tiger II, the Elefant, and the Volkswagen Beetle |
| Significant awards | German National Prize for Art and Science |
Ferdinand Porsche[2] (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric), the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles. Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, which was the first race car with mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout.
Known in business circles as the "great engineer",[3] he made a number of contributions to advanced German tank designs: Tiger I, Tiger II, and the Elefant as well as the super-heavy Panzer VIII Maus tank, which was never put into production. He also made contributions in aircraft design, including the Junkers Ju 88, and the Focke-Wulf Ta 152. [4] Additionally, he helped develop and manufacture retaliatory weapons (Vergeltungswaffen), such as the V-1 flying bombs(Fi 103 flying bombs). [5] In 1937, Porsche was awarded the German National Prize for Art and Science, one of the rarest decorations in Nazi Germany.
In 1996, Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and in 1999 posthumously won the award of Car Engineer of the Century.
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Early life[link]
See also: Porsche family
Ferdinand Porsche was born to German-speaking parents in Maffersdorf (Czech: Vratislavice nad Nisou), northern Bohemia, during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, what is today the Czech Republic. He showed high aptitude for mechanical work at a very young age. He managed to attend classes at the Imperial Technical School in Reichenberg (Czech: Liberec) at night while helping his father in his mechanical shop by day. Thanks to a referral, Porsche landed a job with the Béla Egger Electrical company in Vienna when he turned 18.[6] In Vienna he would sneak into the local university whenever he could after work. Beyond auditing classes there, Porsche had never received any higher engineering education. During his five years with Béla Egger, Porsche first developed the electric hub motor. [7]
Early career[link]
In 1898, Porsche joined the Vienna-based factory Jakob Lohner & Co, that produced coaches for Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, as well as for the kings of England, Sweden, and Romania.[citation needed] Jakob Lohner had begun construction of automobiles in 1896 under Ludwig Lohner in the trans-Danubian suburb of Floridsdorf.
Their first design, unveiled in 1898, was the "System Lohner-Porsche", a carriage-like car driven by two electric motors, directly fitted within the front wheel hubs, and powered by batteries. This drive train construction was easily expanded to four-wheel drive, by simply mounting two more electric motors to the rear wheels as well, and indeed such a specimen was ordered by the Englishman E. W. Hart in 1900. In December that year, the car was presented at the Paris World Exhibition under the name Toujours-Contente. Even though this one-off vehicle[8] had been commissioned for the purposes of racing and record-breaking, the 1,800 kg of lead acid batteries it required graphically illustrated the limits of this powertrain concept. Though it "showed wonderful speed when it was allowed to sprint",[citation needed] the weight of its huge battery pack meant that it was singularly reluctant to climb hills and suffered from limited range due to limited battery life.
Still employed by Lohner, Porsche reached the logical conclusion and in 1901 introduced the "Mixte" vehicle/transmission concept: instead of a massive battery-pack, an internal combustion engine built by the German firm, Daimler, was fitted to a generator to drive the electric hub motors and (for vehicle reliability) a small battery pack. This way Porsche had created the first petroleum electric hybrid vehicle on record, although since sufficiently reliable gears and couplings weren't available at the time, he chose to make it a series-hybrid, an arrangement currently more common in diesel-electric or turbo-electric railway locomotives than automobiles.
Though over 300 Lohner-Porsche chassis were sold up to 1906, most of them were two-wheel drive—either front- or rear-wheel driven trucks, buses and fire-engines. No further four-wheel-drive passenger cars were manufactured, however some buses were fitted with it.
The up to 56 km/h (35 mph) fast carriages broke several Austrian speed records, and also won the Exelberg Rally in 1901 with Porsche himself piloting a front-wheel drive hybrid specimen. It was later upgraded with more powerful engines from Daimler and Panhard, which proved to be enough to post more speed records. In 1905, Porsche was recognized with the Poetting 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 mere decade later.
Austro-Daimler[link]
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 Wilhelm II's younger brother Prince Heinrich of Prussia. Examples of this streamlined, 85 horsepower (63 kW) car won the first three places, and the car is still better known by the nickname "Prince Henry" than by its model name "Modell 27/80".
Porsche had advanced to Managing Director by 1916 and received the honorary doctorate degree, "Dr. techn h.c." from the Vienna University of Technology in 1917 (hence the "Dr. Ing h.c" in his name, meaning "Doktor Ingenieur Honoris Causa"). Porsche successfully continued to construct racing cars, winning 43 out of 53 races with his 1922 design. In 1923, Porsche left Austro-Daimler after differences ensued about the future direction of car development.
Only a few months later Porsche landed a new job as Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft's Technical Director in Stuttgart, Weimar Germany, which was already then a major hub for the German automotive industry. He received another honorary doctorate from the Stuttgart Technical University for his work at Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in Stuttgart and later the honorary title Professor. While at Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, he came up with several very successful race car designs. The heavy series of models equipped with superchargers that later culminated in the Mercedes-Benz SSK dominated its class of motor racing in the 1920s.
In 1926, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie merged into Daimler-Benz, with their joint products beginning to be called, Mercedes-Benz. Porsche's concept of a small, light-weight Mercedes-Benz car was not popular with Daimler-Benz's board, however. He left in 1929 for Steyr Automobile, but the Great Depression brought about Steyr's economic collapse and Porsche ended up being unemployed.
Founding of Porsche[link]
Main article: Porsche
In April 1931 Porsche founded his consulting firm, Dr. req. h.c. F. Porsche GmbH, Konstruktionen und Beratungen für Motoren und Fahrzeugbau, in Stuttgart, where he returned. With financial backing from the Austrian advocate Anton Piëch and Adolf Rosenberger, Porsche successfully recruited several old co-workers he befriended at his former places of employment including Karl Rabe, Erwin Komenda, Franz Xaver Reimspiess, and his son, Ferry Porsche.
Their first project was the design of a middle class car for Wanderer. Other commissioned designs followed. As the business grew, Porsche decided to work on his own design as well, which happened to be a reincarnation of the small car concept from his days at Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart. He financed the project with a loan on his life insurance. Later Zündapp decided to help sponsor the project, but lost interest after their success with motorcycles. NSU then took over the sponsorship, but also lost interest due to the high tooling costs.
With car commissions low in the depressed economic climate, Porsche founded a subsidiary company Hochleistungs Motor GmbH (High Efficiency Engines Ltd.) in 1932 to develop a racing car, for which he had no customer. Based on Max Wagner's mid-engined layout 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, or "Teardrop" aerodynamic design; the experimental P-Wagen project racing car (P stood for Porsche), was designed according to the regulations of the 750 kg formula. The main regulation of this formula meant that the weight of the car without driver, fuel, oil, water and tire was not allowed to exceed 750 kg.
In 1932 Auto Union Gmbh was formed, comprising struggling auto manufacturers Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Baron Klaus von Oertzen wanted a show piece project, so at fellow director Adolf Rosenberger's insistence, von Oertzen met with Porsche, who had done work for him before. At the 1933 Berlin Motor Show, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced two new programs:
- The people's car: Hitler made it his political agenda to motorize the nation, and that every German should own either a car or a tractor in the future.
- A state-sponsored motor racing programme: to develop a "high speed German automotive industry," the foundation of which would be an annual sum of 500,000 Reichsmarks to Mercedes-Benz
The announcement led to two projects for Porsche, and set a precedent for the rest of the decade with Porsche accepting further projects from Nazi Germany, latterly including military vehicles from the Panzer, Tiger Tank and the Elefant tank destroyer.
Volkswagen Beetle[link]
Main article: Volkswagen Beetle
In June 1934, Porsche received a contract from Hitler to design a "people's car" (or Volkswagen), following on from his previous designs such as the 1931 Type 12 car designed for Zündapp. The first two prototype cars were completed in 1935. These were followed by several further pre-production batches during 1936 to 1939. The car was similar to the contemporary designs of Hans Ledwinka of Tatra, which resulted in a lawsuit against Porsche settled by Volkswagen only several years after World War II. A new city, "Stadt des KdF-Wagens", near Fallersleben was founded for the Volkswagen factory, but wartime production concentrated almost exclusively on the military Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen variants. Mass production of the car, which later became known as the Beetle, commenced after the end of the war. The city is named Wolfsburg today and is still the headquarters of Volkswagen Group.
Auto Union racing car[link]
Main article: Auto Union racing car
German racing driver Hans Stuck had met Hitler before he became Chancellor, and not being able to gain a seat at Mercedes, accepted the invitation of Rosenberger to join him, von Oertzen and Porsche in approaching the Chancellor. In a meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Hitler agreed with Porsche that for the glory of Germany, it would be better for two companies to develop the project, resulting in Hitler agreeing to split the money between Mercedes and Auto Union with 250,000 Reichsmark to each company. This highly annoyed Mercedes, who had already developed their Mercedes-Benz W125, and resulted in a heated exchange both on and off the racing track between the two companies for the period until World War Two.
Having garnered state funds, Auto Union bought Hochleistungs Motor GmbH and hence the P-Wagen Project for 75,000 Reichsmark, relocating the company to Chemnitz. As Porsche became more involved with the construction of the Wolfsburg factory, he handed over his racing projects to his son, Ferry. The dominance of the Silver Arrows of both brands was only stopped by the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
Post war[link]
In November 1945 after the war, Porsche was asked to continue the design of the Volkswagen in France and to move the factory equipment there as part of war reparations. Differences within the French government and objections from the French automotive industry put a halt to this project before it had even begun. On 15 December 1945, French authorities arrested Porsche, Anton Piëch, and Ferry Porsche as war criminals. While Ferry was set free soon, Ferdinand and Anton were held in a Dijon prison for 20 months without trial.
While his father was in captivity, Ferry tried to keep the company in business, and they also repaired cars, water pumps, and winches. A contract with Piero Dusio was completed for a Grand Prix motor racing car, the Type 360 Cisitalia. The innovative 4WD design never went into races, but the money it raised for Porsche was used to redeem Ferdinand Porsche from French prison.
The company also started work on a new design, the Porsche 356, the first car to carry the Porsche brand. The company was located in Gmünd in Carinthia at the time, to which they had evacuated from Stuttgart to avoid Allied bomb raids. The company started manufacturing the Porsche 356 in an old saw mill in Gmünd. They manufactured 49 cars, which were built entirely by manual labor.
Return to Stuttgart[link]
The Porsche family returned to Stuttgart in 1949 not knowing how to restart their business. The banks would not give them credit, as the company's plant was still under American embargo and could not serve as collateral. So Ferry Porsche took one of the limited series 356 models from Gmünd and visited Volkswagen dealers to raise some orders. He asked the dealers to pay for the ordered cars in advance.[9] He even wrote a letter to the bank's director to thank him for refusing.[citation needed]
The serial version made in Stuttgart had a steel body welded to the central-tube platform chassis instead of the aluminum body used in the small Gmünd-made series. When Ferry Porsche resurrected the company he counted on series production figures of about 1,500. More than 78,000 Porsche 356s were manufactured in the following 17 years.
Porsche was later contracted by Volkswagen for additional consulting work and received a royalty on every Volkswagen Type I (Beetle) car manufactured. This provided Porsche with a comfortable financial situation as more than 20 million Type I were built.
In November 1950, Porsche visited the Wolfsburg Volkswagen factory for the first time since the end of World War II. Porsche spent his visit chatting with Volkswagen president Heinrich Nordhoff about the future of VW Beetle, which were already being produced in large numbers.
A few weeks later, Porsche suffered a stroke. He did not fully recover, and died on 30 January 1951.
In 1996, Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and in 1999 posthumously won the award of Car Engineer of the Century.
In 2010 an official memorial was erected in Porsche's birthplace in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Czech Republic, featuring a Porsche 356.[10]
Views on Labor[link]
Ferdinand visited Henry Ford's operation in Detroit many times where he learned the importance of productivity. There he learned to monitor work, and subject the laborers to constant spying. The need to increase productivity became an obsession for him. Conventional methods for increasing productivity include longer working hours, a faster rate of work, and new labour-saving techniques. Under Adolf Hitler, German workers enjoyed full employment, but historian William L. Shirer says this came at a cost of serfdom like qualities and poverty wages. The Volkswagen plant was completed in 1938 after Italian Labor was brought in. This workforce can be considered exploitative, but people were exhorted to follow this example. Although Porsche joined the Nazi party on his own free will in 1937, and was an SS activist, he did not have any "blood on his hands." Even so, Volkswagen, under Ferdinand Porsche, profited from forced and slave labor. This would include a large number of Soviets. In the spring of 1945, 90% of Volkswagen’s workforce was non-German [11]
References[link]
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- ^ The name Porsche is pronounced [ˈpɔʁʃə] in German and /ˈpɔrʃə/ POR-shə in English, with an audible "e".
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Further reading[link]
- Barber, Chris (2003). Birth of the Beetle: The Development of the Volkswagen by Ferdinand Porsche. Haynes Publishing. ISBN 1-85960-959-7.
- Ludvigsen, Karl E. (2008). Porsche: Excellence Was Expected – The Comprehensive History of the Company, Its Cars and Its Racing Heritage. Brooklands Books. ISBN 978-0-8376-0235-6
- Hans Mommsen; Manfred Grieger: Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Arbeiter im Dritten Reich, ECON Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-430-16785-X (German)
- Peter Müller: Ferdinand Porsche. Der Vater des Volkswagens, 4. Aufl., 1998 (German)
- Martin Pfundner: Austro Daimler und Steyr. Rivalen bis zur Fusion. Die frühen Jahre des Ferdinand Porsche. Böhlau, Wien 2007. ISBN 978-3-205-77639-0 (German)
External links[link]
- Ferdinand Porsche Find A Grave
- West Ham's Cedes Stoll Trolleybus Porsche design
- Porsche facts website
- Website of the Society of Automotive Historians about him
- Hybrid-Vehicle.org: The Lohner-Porsche.
- Hybrid-Vehicle.org: The Landwehr and C-train
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| Name | Porsche, Ferdinand |
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| Date of birth | 3 September 1875 |
| Place of birth | Maffersdorf near Reichenberg, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) |
| Date of death | 30 January 1951 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart, Germany |
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| Ferdinand Alexander Porsche | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1935-12-11)11 December 1935 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Died | 5 April 2012(2012-04-05) (aged 76) Salzburg, Austria |
| Occupation | Porsche designer |
| Notable work(s) | Porsche 911 |
| Parents | Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche |
| Relatives | Ferdinand Porsche (grandfather) |
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012),[1] nicknamed "Butzi", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911.[2]
While his grandfather and father were engineers, he was more involved into 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.[citation needed]
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Education[link]
After attending the Waldorf School in Stuttgart[3] he began studying industrial design in Ulm, Germany, but after a year[3] was dismissed by the examination board, because his talent was doubted. In 1957 he started practical training at the body design department of the family-owned sports car company under design director Erwin Komenda.
Porsche 911[link]
When it came to the designworks of the coachwork for the company's most successful car so far, the Porsche 911, Ferdinand Alexander was heavily involved, as it was family tradition that every generation of the Porsche family took part in the genesis of a new car generation. Ferry Porsche wished the successor of his 356 should provide more space and comfort in the cabin, though he was also cited as saying, "Comfort is not what makes driving fun, it is more on the opposite." The boot, especially, should have provided more space. Ferdinand Alexander made first drafts, which were accepted very well, but Komenda did not walk in line and made, as F.A. and Ferry complained, unapproved changes on his own. Ferry set the main attributes concerning wheelbase, power figures and suspension and after Komenda still did not cooperate, he took F.A.'s drawings to the coachwork manufacturer Reutter across the street. They gave the actual shape to the 901 as it was presented at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show. The original project code 901 was changed to 911 after intervention of Peugeot who had a trademark protection on three-number-combinations with "0" in the middle. Production began in 1964.
Porsche 904[link]
Ferdinand Alexander also shaped another important car, the Porsche 904. He stated that the 904 was his favorite work for Porsche.[citation needed] Its body shell was made of Fiberglass-reinforced resin at the aircraft company Heinkel. The car was to be approved by racing homologation officers until a set date in order to attend the same year's racing season. Thus, the development team was under extreme time pressure. F.A. liked the design of the 904 best, as there was no time for anyone to demand or initiate changes, so it is his most original draft.
Porsche Design Group[link]
After the family decided to change the company's legal form and to keep the family out of its management, Ferdinand Alexander founded his own industrial design company, Porsche Design, in Stuttgart, Germany, which was later moved to Zell am See, Austria, where the Porsche family owns an estate called Schüttgut. The first product Porsche Design created was a chronograph wristwatch made by Swiss watchmaker company Orfina. Its design started while F.A. was still working at the Porsche Style bureau. It was launched in 1973 and was different from other chronograph wristwatches, as its case and bracelet were made out of matte black chromed steel. It was intended as accessory for Porsche drivers and sold by the Porsche dealers. It operated the then-new Valjoux 7750 movement, which is today still the most widespread mechanical movement for chronograph wristwatches.[citation needed] As many customers would have liked a normally-coloured watch, a version with bead-blasted stainless steel was issued. Later the movement was changed to the Lemania 5100, which was a simple and rugged movement mainly used for military watches. The Porsche Design Chrono I was made in different versions — color of case and straps, print on dial — for several country's air forces, as well as the NATO alliance.
In 1978 F.A. teamed up with Swiss watchmaker International Watch Company (IWC) to develop a wristwatch combining a non-magnetic automatic movement and a compass, the so-called Kompassuhr. The movement was housed in a hinge-attached upper case that could be flapped to give sight on the compass in the lower part of the case. Its cases and bracelet was made out of PVD coated aluminum (matte black or matte olive). Later versions had the cases and bracelet made out of titanium. IWC pioneered use of titanium in watch cases/bracelets together with F.A. in the development of the Titan Chronograph launched in 1980. The Titan Chronograph was the first watch to use titanium in wristwatches. IWC had to develop work processes paying attention to titanium's specific properties. The unique design aspect of the Titan Chronograph were the pushers to operate the stopwatch functions being integrated in the case's contour.
F.A.'s appeal to using unusual materials showed in the very rare Chrono II made by IWC. Its case was made of bead-blasted aluminum with bracelet made out of fibre-reinforced resin. This watch also employed integrated pushers.
Watches are still a main business of Porsche Design. In 1996 the Swiss watchmaker Eterna, which invented the ball bearing for the winding rotor used in automatic movements, was bought by F.A. holding company.
The Porsche Design product suffering most often from plagiarism is probably the sunglasses with drop-shaped lenses, which was issued during the 1980s in a lot of unusual color combinations, e.g., purple lenses with golden or white frame. F.A. designed many more spectacles. Most often, they had some unique attributes — e.g., a saddle-shaped cushion adapting to the nose shape automatically and opening symmetrically through an internal cam mechanism. The drop-shaped spectacle had a quick release mechanism to provide quick lens changes. One pair even had magnetically held lenses; another one got its shape from the intended production method: Its shape was accommodated to a sand casting process of titanium. The production issue was actually not made of titanium, but the shape remained.
Transportation design remained an issue on F.A. Porsche. He made several studies for metropolitan trains, a motorcycle, several bicycles and a slightly dolphin-shaped racing boat called Kineo.
As the company grew the product categories diversified. There are three possibilities how designs made by Porsche Design can appear — Porsche Design brand products made exclusively for Porsche Design; products bearing the manufacturer's name and the writing "Design by F.A. Porsche"; and products with no hint of Porsche Design at all. Porsche Design came up with several bathroom designs, a washing machine, furniture, knives, television receivers, desk lamps (one with three telescoping radio antennas attaching the light bulb holder to the base and one employing design aspects of a guillotine in its pull-out mechanism), tobacco pipes with air-cooled-engine-inspired cooling fins, pens made out of wire-cloth used in oil hoses for racing engines, computer monitors, computer external hard drives, coffee makers, and even a grand piano for an Austrian manufacturer Bösendorfer. The Design by F.A. Porsche mark is used no more, with the exception of the professional kitchen knives of CHROMA Cnife.
The formerly completely private owned Porsche Design company belongs in the meantime to a cooperation company between F.A. Porsche and the Dr.-Ing. hc F. Porsche AG, of which F.A. held roughly 13%. F.A. Porsche retired in 2005 due to his state of health. He was given the title Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board, a title that was originally invented for his father when he retired. He died in Salzburg, Austria on April 5, 2012, age 76.
References[link]
- ^ "Ferdinand Porsche, legendary 911 sports car creator, dies at 76". RT. 2012. http://rt.com/news/porsche-911-designer-dead-370/. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
- ^ "70. születésnapját ünnepli Ferdinand Alexander Porsche" (in Hungarian). M1 (Hungarian State Television). 2005. http://www.mtv.hu/modernkepmesek/cikk.php?id=81225. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
- ^ a b "Der kleien Porsche: Porsche-Enkel Butzi betreibt in Zell am See ein renommiertes Design-Studio". Auto Motor u. Sport Heft 22 1977: Seite 8–10. date 26 October 1977.
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| Persondata | |
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| Name | Porsche, Ferdinand Alexander |
| Alternative names | F.A. Porsche, Butzi |
| Short description | German industrial designer; co-designer of Porsche 911 sports car |
| Date of birth | 1935-12-11 |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | 2012-04-05 |
| Place of death | |
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