Ferdinand Porsche, every mention

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired Jun 27, 2023 · 23 mentions

• ▶ 5:35 David Rosenthal The parting prize was for Austria's Automotive Engineer of the Year to come be their new chief engineer at Daimler, won Doctor Engineer Honoris Causa Ferdinand Porsche.
• ▶ 5:49 David Rosenthal Now, the, uh, whole Doctor Engineer Honoris Causa thing, uh, it's a bit of a red herring, although Porsche, the person, and the company would make quite a big deal about it.
• ▶ 6:06 Ben Gilbert Wait, the Dr.
• ▶ 6:34 David Rosenthal Ferdinand, Porsche, and many other folks in the family and in the early Porsche and Volkswagen, as we will see days,
• ▶ 6:41 David Rosenthal We're also huge Nazis, and Ferdinand himself not just was a Nazi, but was a very close personal associate of Adolf Hitler.
• ▶ 7:18 David Rosenthal So when Ferdinand takes this, uh, new post as the head of engineering at Daimler, he moves his family from Austria, where he was the potting prize winner, to Stuttgart in Germany.
• ▶ 8:02 David Rosenthal So, Porsche Ferdinand
• ▶ 8:38 David Rosenthal But Ferdinand's vision is a small car.
• ▶ 9:21 David Rosenthal They get into a huge fight over this, and Ferdinand ends up leaving the company pretty acrimoniously in 1929.
• ▶ 9:56 David Rosenthal So once he leaves, Ferdinand bumps around for a little while, and then in 1931, he starts a consulting firm to kind of advise other car companies, not Daimler-Benz, but other car companies in Germany and, and Europe, and I think in America…
• ▶ 11:55 David Rosenthal During the war, Porsche and the Nazis totally appropriate his stake in Porsche, and he's written out of history.
• ▶ 12:22 David Rosenthal Would be to design Ferdinand's vision, the small, affordable car for the people, a Volkswagen, you might say in German.
• ▶ 22:08 Ben Gilbert And we should say during the war, Ferdinand Portia was designing tanks.
• ▶ 22:55 David Rosenthal After the war, Ferdinand and the son-in-law, Anton Piache, are both arrested by the French as war criminals.
• ▶ 23:30 David Rosenthal So Ferdinand's son, Ferry Portia, who had been working in the business, I think a little bit before the war and then, and then during the war, too, um, he's also arrested for war crimes, too, at the end of the war.
• ▶ 34:02 David Rosenthal At the end of 1947, Ferdinand Porsche and Anton Pietsch get released from French prison.
• ▶ 37:27 David Rosenthal Is that Ferdinand and Ferry, the original Ferdinand and his son Ferry, they're gonna move back to Stuttgart and take over, retake over the kind of German operations of Porsche.
• ▶ 53:11 David Rosenthal So in 1954, Porsche, which I don't think Ferdinand and Ferry like envisioned like we're going to sell cars in America.
• ▶ 56:16 David Rosenthal So the next generation of Porsches, Ferry's son Ferdinand, known as Bootsy, named Ferdinand, named after his grandfather, founder of Porsche, was working in the company, and he had been leading the body design for this larger sedan that…
• ▶ 1:13:52 David Rosenthal This is kind of a, a backdrop of stress to another, um, family dynamic that's emerging, which is you've got these two Ferdinand grandsons that are kind of vying, starting to vie for control of the company.
• ▶ 1:16:22 David Rosenthal Ferdinand's long den at this point, the original Ferdinand.
• ▶ 1:18:58 David Rosenthal So at first he's like, I imagine inspired by his grandfather.
• ▶ 1:21:22 David Rosenthal I mean, he oversaw and launched the new Beetle, uh, like literally his grandfather's legacy, the Beetle.