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BIRTH
1875 September 3, Ferdinand Porsche, third of five children of Anton Porsche, was born in Maffersdorf, Reichenberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Vratislavice nad Nisou, Liberec, Czech Republic).
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Ferdinand Porsche
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WORKING
1893 Ferdinand began working at the electric company Bela Egger & Co. (now Brown Boveri) in Vienna. With his talent he was promoted from a worker to the test centre manager within a few years.
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WORKING
1897 he built an electric wheel-hub motor. In the same year he started working at Hofwagenfabrik Jacob Lohner & Co., Vienna, in the freshly established car department.
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Lohner-Porsche
In 1898, he was employed by Lohner, a manufacturer of electric cars and, at the age of 23, he designed the Lohner-Porsche. This car was exhibited at the most prestigious car exhibition of the time, L'Exposition Universelle De Paris in 1900.
Porsche won the opportunity to design another prototype, a four wheel drive with an electrical motor in each wheel.
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First 4-wheel-drive car in the world.
- Porsche won the opportunity to design another prototype, a four wheel drive with an electrical motor in each wheel.First 4-wheel-drive car in the world. Ferdinand Porsche sitting next to the driver of a Lohner-Porsche Electromobile. It had four 1.8 kW motors. The vehicle was intended for competition use. Ferdinand himself delivered it to the purchaser, E.W. Hart in Luton, England *https://www.stuttcars.com/about-porsche/ferdinand-porsche/
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PILOT
In 1902, with Ferdinand Porsche as the pilot, it won its class at the hill climb in Exelber, Austria.
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RACING CAR
1922 he presented the Austro-Daimler Sascha, a small 4-cylinder racing car with a displacement of 1.1 litres. The car was designed for a wealthy Austrian count and film maker Sascha Kolowrat. At first go in the same year, “Sascha” snapped up first and second places in its category in the Targa Florio race in Sicily. "Gazetta dello Sport" commented on its success as follows: “Up until very recently no one would have dreamed it possible to achieve such top speeds and durability with a 4-cylinder e -
COMPANY
On April 25, 1931, at the age of 55, Ferdinand Porsche finally registered its own company. It was recorded in the Commercial Register as “Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH, Konstruktionen und Beratung für Motoren- und Fahrzeugbau” (Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche LLC, Design and Consultancy Company for Engine and Vehicle Production). The company was co-founded by Dr. Anton Piëch (10%) and racing driver Adolf Rosenberger (10%). -
AUTOMOBILE WORLD
Following the establishment of the company, on August 10, 1931, the torsion bar suspension was registered as a patent, which would have sufficed to commemorate the Porsche name in the automobile world. -
DEATH
Dr. Porsche died in 1951 at the age of 75. The Porsche name has gone on to greater fame and success, thanks to his son's, and grandchildren's, involvement with the engineering company Ferdinand Porsche created.
