Ferdinand Porsche played an important role in the development of airplanes and racing cars, and the construction of tanks for the Wehrmacht. He was an automobile engineer with more than a thousand patents to his name and is known for creating the most famous ‘people’s car’ in the history, Volkswagen Käfer. Porsche was appointed chief engineer at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart in the 1920s. Later on, he set up his own engineering workshop and designed among others the Volkswagen.
At the plant where Volkswagen was made, in Wolfsburg, he was chief of operations and at the end of the war he was interned by the Allies. Read More …