In 1923, the family moved to Stuttgart, due to senior Ferdinand Porsche's unrest about the squandering financial destiny of Austro-Daimler.
At age 12 he drove a real race car, the Austro-Daimler Sascha, which had just won its class at Targa Florio, Sicily, in 1922.įerry Porsche attended school at Wiener Neustadt and Stuttgart, concentrating on mathematics. Ferry Porsche learned to drive when he was only 10 years old. For example, on Christmas Eve of 1920, Ferry Porsche was originally misled by his parents, who first presented him with a miniature coach pulled by a goat, while his real present was a petrol-driven miniature car with a four-stroke, two- cylinder engine specially designed by his father. They also used to tour around Europe and the United States of America, where they raced the cars they designed.įerry remarked later, ".cars were my greatest passion from the very beginning.". He and his father spent much time together in workshops where he began early to learn about mechanical engineering. Early in his childhood he picked up the nickname "Ferry" rather than the usual nickname "Ferdy", as Ferdy reminded his parents too much of a typical coachman nickname - a profession that, coincidentally, was made obsolete by the family's work.ĭuring the following years, the family moved around a lot. He was baptized Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, with the name Ferdinand after his father, the name Anton after his grandfather, and the name Ernst after his uncle on his mother's side. He had an older sister, Louise Piëch, who was five years his senior. įerry Porsche's mother was Aloisia Johanna Kaes. He found out about his son's birth by telegram. The day Ferry Porsche was born, his father was competing with one of his race cars (called the Maja) at Semmering, finishing first in his class. Austro-Daimler was so strongly tied to the local royalty that the Austrian double-headed eagle became the trademark of the company.
His designs were focused on compact street cars and race cars. was chief designer at Austro-Daimler in Austria. Despite the political-economical adversities of the postwar years, the company manufactured automobiles and, eventually, became a major sports car manufacturer.įerdinand Porsche Sr. Aided by the postwar Volkswagen enterprise, he created the first cars that were uniquely associated with the company. and a team of engineers, including Ferry Porsche.Īfter World War II, while his father remained imprisoned in France being accused of war crimes, Ferry Porsche ran their company. The Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche Sr. With his father he opened a bureau of automobile design, in Stuttgart in 1931. His nephew, Ferdinand Piëch, was the longtime chairman of Volkswagen Group, and his son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, was involved in the design of the 911.įerry Porsche's life was intimately connected with that of his father, Ferdinand Porsche Sr., who began sharing his knowledge of mechanical engineering already in his childhood. was also a renowned automobile engineer and founder of Volkswagen and Porsche. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. Porsche AG designer and Chief Executive Officerįerdinand, Wolfgang, Gerhard, Hans-Peter Porscheįerdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (19 September 1909 – 27 March 1998), mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker- entrepreneur.
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