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Construction of the amphibian car was based on the Beetle. Its all-wheel design made it one of the best all-terrain vehicle of its day.
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Grandfather Ferdinand Porsche, with his grandchildren: Ferdinand Alexander ("Butzi") Porsche (left) and Ferdinand Piëch. In their hands is a model of the No. 1.
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Porscheplatz at the Zuffenhausen location
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The panel of experts with the winning design from Karin Sander
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The Porsche plant in Leipzig with Customer Service Centre, administration section, production hall and run-in and test track
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The production hall is joined on to the right of the administration section
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Bavaria's Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr. Otto Wiesheu (right) with the Chairman of the Managing Board at Porsche, Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking
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CDU Party Chairwoman Angela Merkel and Chairman of the Board of Management at Porsche, Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking
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The house in Maffersdorf (now Vratislavice) in which Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875. It was on the right bank of the Neisse and bore the number 201
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1915. Ferdinand Porsche's children, Ferry and Louise, aged 6 and 11
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Austro-Daimler Landwehr-Train on a trial run on the Semmering, located south of Wiener Neustadt, in 1913.
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The "Sascha" at the Targa Florio on Sicily in 1922. At the wheel we see Alfred Neubauer.
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Ferdinand Porsche (right) at the Targa Florio on Sicily in 1924. The 2-liter-supercharged Mercedes-Benz racing car took first place against larger-engined cars entered by Alfa Romeo, Hispano-Suiza and Peugeot.
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Ferdinand Porsche (right) and his wife Aloisia (in the rear) during an experimental run up the Katschberg Pass, Carinthia, in 1929, in a Steyr Type 30 of his own design.
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Ferdinand Porsche standing next to the supercharged 16-cylinder engine of the Auto-Union racing car in 1936
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Volkswagen-Prototyp W30: This car already had an all-steel body, steel running-gear components and the familiar flat-four four-stroke engine.
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Ferdinand Porsche (left) with Karl Rabe (1895-1968), Porsche company's chief designer from the establishment of the Dr. Porsche GmbH company in 1931 until his retirement at the end of 1965.
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Portrait of Ferdinand Porsche (1950) with his signature below
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Ferry Porsche at a gymkhana in 1921, pictured in his "toy car" that had a two-cylinder four-stroke engine and twin gears.
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Ferry Porsche and his wife Dorothea in the second Volkswagen prototype (V2), 1935
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