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Ferdinand Porsche [a] (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-Bohemian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG.He is best known for creating the first gasoline–electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner–Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing cars, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, and several other important developments and Porsche automobiles.
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (19 September 1909 – 27 March 1998), [1] mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart , Germany .
Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951) was an automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. Ferdinand Porsche may also refer to: Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909–1998), known as Ferry, automobile designer and businessman, son of Ferdinand Porsche, Sr. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935–2012), nicknamed Butzi, automobile designer ...
The Sudeten German surname Porsche can be traced to the 18th century in the area of Reichenberg, Bohemia (now Liberec, Czech Republic). [4] The surname originates with the German word Bursche ("boy, young man, apprentice, farmhand") and is on record in northern Bohemia in various spellings (Porsch, Borsche, Borsch, Bursche, Bursch, Pursch, Pursche, etc.) from the early 17th century.
Senior Ferdinand Porsche took Daimler's place as technical designer. Although Austro-Daimler cars were competing at races already, Porsche pioneered aerodynamic usage with two famous racecars (Mixte and Maya). Also, he designed the Mercédès-Electrique-Mixte which was manufactured from 1902 until 1907.
The Schüttgut, the family estate of the Porsche–Piëch family, is located in Zell am See, having been obtained in 1939 by the senior Ferdinand Porsche in anticipation of the war. During the war, he transferred some of his business operations here and to Gmünd , away from Stuttgart where, notwithstanding the heavy bombing, his son Ferry ...
According to a biography by Andreas Stieniczka, the funeral coach for Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose murder in Sarajevo was the event which sparked off World War I, was manufactured by Lohner-Werke. Over 300 Lohner–Porsche vehicles were sold up to 1906. In addition to custom coachworks, Lohner supported Porsche's continued racing efforts.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012), also known by the nickname "Butzi", was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. He is the son of Ferry Porsche , and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche .