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- NAME: Ferdinand Porsche
- OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor
- BIRTH DATE: September 03, 1875
- DEATH DATE: January 30, 1951
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Maffersdorf, Austria
- PLACE OF DEATH: Stuttgart, Germany
- Full Name: Ferdinand Porsche
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Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche car company in 1931. In the early 1920s, he oversaw the development of the Mercedes compressor car, and later developed the first designs of the Volkswagen car with his son, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche.
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That year, while working on the project with son Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (born in 1909)—also known as Ferry—he developed the first designs for the Volkswagen car. From that point on, father and son worked together.
During World War II, in 1942, Porsche and his son designed military vehicles, including the German Tiger Tank, the most powerful tank in the world at the time.
When the war ended in 1945,
Porsche was arrested by French soldiers and forced to serve a 22-month prison sentence. While he was incarcerated, Ferdinand Anton oversaw the creation of a new racing car, the Cisitalia, a Porsche-company product. To his son, upon his return, Porsche reportedly said, "I would have built it exactly the same, right down to the last screw." The father-son team went on to make history in 1950, when they introduced the Porsche sports car.
Death and Legacy
Porsche died in Stuttgart on January 30, 1951, at the age of 75. Nearly 60 years later, in 2009, the Porsche Museum opened in Zuffenhausen, a suburb of Stuttgart.
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