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Ferdinand Porsche

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Austrian-German automotive engineer who worked for Austro-Daimler and Mercedes-Benz before founding his own design and engineering consultancy in Stuttgart in 1931, which became the Porsche company. He is credited with the Volkswagen Beetle, the Lohner-Porsche petrol-electric hybrid, and successive generations of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racing cars. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1875 1
Death Year
1951 1
Nationality
Austrian-German 1
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Source Wikipedia: Ferdinand Porsche
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1. Wikipedia: Ferdinand Porsche
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  • Introduction
    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.
  • Preceded By: Gottlieb Daimler, Career at Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
    A few months later, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft hired Porsche to serve as Technical Director in Stuttgart, Germany, which was already a major center for the German automotive industry.
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