LightAuto
Famous Designers.
Ferdnand Porsche 1875-1952
Mini Biography.
Born in Maffersdorf in Northern Bohemia now
part of Czech Republic, the son of a tinsmith. His first automobile designs
were for Lohner of Vienna in 1899. He went on to design for Austro-Daimler
1906-23, Then Daimler-MotorenAG, later Daimler-Benz, 1923- 29. Followed
by Steyr, in Austria in 1929. Later in 1929 he set up his own design office
in Stuttgart, He and his team designed many outstanding cars there before
moving to Gmund in Austria in 1944 to escape Allied bombing. After a troubled
period at the end of the war, he again returned to Stuttgart, the home
of Porsche cars.
His
economy and light car designs.
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