Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche 
* 3 September 1875 in Maffersdorf (Bohemia); † 30 January 1951 in Stuttgart.

The name Porsche is associated with top technical achievements.
Without higher education, Ferdinand Porsche succeeded in pioneering developments at an early age. He demonstrated his technical talent with the design of the Lohner-Porsche, an electric car that attracted great interest at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, and a hybrid model shortly afterwards.

After a position as technical director at Austro-Daimler in Wiener Neustadt, he worked as head of the design office and member of the board at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart from 1923. On 25 April 1931, Ferdinand Porsche founded the "Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche KG, Konstruktionen und Beratungen für Motoren und Fahrzeugbau".

In 1934, the company officially receives the order to design a German People's Car. The "Ur-Käfer" is built in the garage of Porsche's villa.

His son Ferry Porsche is also involved in the development of the Volkswagen.

Ferry Porsche
* 19 September 1909 in Wiener Neustadt; † 27 March 1998 in Zell am See

As an employee in his father's design office, he develops the first sports car with the Porsche name, the Type 356 No. 1 Roadster. Only one month after its road registration, the car achieves its first class victory at the Innsbruck city race in 1948. Porsche's design language is thus established: All later Porsche models to this day are based on the design of the 356 No. 1 Roadster. From 1950 onwards, the model went into series production in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the starting signal for many more racing cars and countless racing victories.