Heinrich Nordhoff
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Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff was a German engineer who led the rebuilding of Volkswagen after World War II. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on Feb. 15, 1954.
Heinz Nordhoff 250
Ferdinand Porsche
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Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Un
Heinrich Nordhoff
…months earlier. He was survived by his wife, Charlotte (Fassunge) Nordhoff (1898-1988) and daughters Elisabeth (later Mrs. Ernst Piech, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche) and Barbara Nordhoff (Mrs. Dan Cantacuzino-Corneni, 1929-2022). On his death, the Boston Globe described him as a shy, gentle man, an artist, music…
Porsche in 1940
Birth house of Ferdinand Porsche in Vratislavice nad Nisou
The Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid
Adolf Hitler laying the foundation stone of the KDF-Wagen (Volkswagen) factory near Fallersleben (Wolfsburg) on 26 May 1938. Ferdinand Porsche at far right.