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Jan. 30, 1981 - January 30th 1981: 30th death/day of Ferdinand Porsche: January 30th 1951 Ferdinand Porsche, one of the most important and allround engineers of German carfactoring died in Stuttgart/West Germany. Born on September 3rd 1875 at Maffersdorf near Reichenberg/Nordbohmen, Porsche first worked at electromobil factoring. 1916 he became general manager of Austro Daimler Wiener Neustadt Unterturkheim and worked out quite a lot of motorcars and lorries. 1931 Porsche founded an own engineering department in Stuttgart, out of this - beside a lot of other vehicles - same the 5-lite-racing of Auto Union. The cost important work of Porsche should have been the construction of the Volkswagen (since 1934). Photo shows Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche (middle) on his 75th birthday-party with Ferdinand Porsche jun. (left) and racer Rudolf Caracciola (right)

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