Ferdinand porsche biography video
Ferdinand porsche biography video
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Ferdinand Porsche
(1875-1951)
Who Was Ferdinand Porsche?
At a young age, automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche had an affinity for technology, and was especially intrigued by electricity.
Porsche worked as a successful vehicle engineer from the late 1800s to 1931, when he founded his own firm. In 1934, Porsche and his son, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, collaborated to develop the first designs of the Volkswagen car.
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Early Love of Cars
Born on September 3, 1875, in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), Ferdinand Porsche became fascinated with electricity at a young age. In 1893, when he was just 18 years old, Porsche landed a job at Bela Egger & Co., an electrical company in Vienna that was later renamed Brown Boveri.
Around the same time, he enrolled as a part-time student at the Imperial Technical University in Reichenberg (now called the Vienna University of Technology).
After only a few years at Bella Egger & Co., Porsche—whose sup