Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, mainly known as Ferry Porsche, lived from 19 September 1909 to 27 March 1998 and was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur who operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Ferdinand Porsche, founded both Volkswagen and Porsche, and with him he opened an automobile design bureau in Stuttgart in 1931. The source lead says the Volkswagen Beetle was designed by his father and a team of engineers that included Ferry. After World War II, while his father was imprisoned in France on war crimes accusations, he ran the family company and, aided by the postwar Volkswagen enterprise, created the first cars uniquely associated with the Porsche name, which grew into a major sports car manufacturer.
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Where and how was the first Porsche sports car built after the Second World War?
The Porsche 356 was hand-built in an improvised sawmill workshop at Gmünd in Austria under Ferry Porsche's supervision.
Ferry Porsche moved the company to Gmünd in Carinthia, Austria, in July 1946, after the occupation forces barred him from returning to Stuttgart. There, under his supervision, the Porsche 356 was built completely by hand in an improvised workshop inside a sawmill. By June 1948, 50 aluminium-bodied units had been assembled. The 356 used Volkswagen components and an air-cooled, rear-mounted four-cylinder engine producing 35 horsepower, and it stayed in production for many years, laying the framework for Porsche's later sports cars.
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Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (19 September 1909-27 March 1998), mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur.
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