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Ferry Porsche
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Ferdinand Porsche Sr., was also a renowned automobile engineer and founder of both Volkswagen and Porsche. His nephew, Ferdinand Piëch, was the longtime chairman of Volkswagen Group, and his son, Fer…
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business · Austrian-German automobile designer · entrepreneur · mechanical engineer · designer · general manager · design engineer · also Ferry Porsche, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Porsche
Born 19 September 1909 · Died 27 March 1998 · Q78769
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1998· 1 entry
Died 1998-03-27.
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Ferdinand Porsche retired definitively from involvement with the company he created, returning to his cherished Austrian farm at Zell am See
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1979· 1 entry
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1979).
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1972· 1 entry
Decided to transform the Porsche Company (which was a limited partnership) into a public concern, also by merging all three enterprises which constituted it:
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1959· 1 entry
Porsche won for the first time an event of the World Sportscar Championship, at Targa Florio, while a Porsche 917 would finally achieve the first Le Mans win in 1970
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1951· 1 entry
Ferry Porsche was the most responsible official of the company, as general manager, the chairman of the board of management
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1950· 1 entry
The production of the Porsche 356 resumed
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1947· 1 entry
Ferry gathered the amount of the stipulated bail immediately after receiving the early fees for his new designs
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1944· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (1944–1972).
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1939· 1 entry
When the Volkswagen factory opened in Wolfsburg, Porsche senior became its general manager, along with an officer from the Nazi party
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1938· 2 entries
Ferdinand Porsche senior left the Auto Union racing team when his contract expired
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When his father moved to the new Volkswagen plant at Wolfsburg, Ferry became deputy manager of the Stuttgart bureau and relocated the design departments to Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen
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1934· 1 entry
Wanderer and others merged to form Auto Union, and the senior Porsche became the chief designer of their race cars
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1933· 1 entry
Their first race car was developed with a 4
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1932· 1 entry
Ferdinand Porsche met with Adolf Hitler personally, and their bid was accepted
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1930· 1 entry
Was taking additional lessons in physics and engineering; however, he never formally enrolled in any university
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1929· 1 entry
Daimler-Benz began to question Porsche's work seriously and halted it suddenly
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1923· 1 entry
The family moved to Stuttgart, due to the elder Ferdinand's unrest about the poor financial condition of Austro-Daimler
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-09-19.
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