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The Volkswagen was also a product of Nazi architecture and industrial design. Hitler commissioned Ferdinand Porsche [ 3 ] to design a "people's car" that was supposed to be affordable and accessible to all Germans, which resulted in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle.
The German engineer Ferdinand Porsche and his design team began developing and designing the car in the early 1930s, but the fundamental design concept can be attributed to Béla Barényi in 1925, predating Porsche's [d] claims by almost ten years. The result was the Volkswagen Type 1 and the introduction of the Volkswagen brand.
Ferdinand Porsche, a member of both the Nazi Party and the SS, as managing director of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, near Fallersleben, was responsible for extermination through labour in his companies. There were several fenced-in and guarded factories, and satellite concentration camps for forced laborers, who had to toil under ...
The plant became the production site for the automobile demanded by Adolf Hitler for broad sections of the population. The basis for this "people's car", the "Volkswagen" or simply VW, was the contract concluded on 22 June 1934, between the Reich Association of the Automotive Industry and Ferdinand Porsche's Stuttgart design office.
The Volkswagen Type 82 Kübelwagen (listen ⓘ), or simply Kübel, [2] contractions of the original German word Kübelsitzwagen (translated: 'bucket-seat car' — but when the contractions are translated literally a back-formation of 'bucket' or 'tub'-car results), [3] is a military light utility vehicle designed by Ferdinand Porsche and built by Volkswagen during World War II for use by the ...
The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...
Ferdinand Porsche [a] (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-Bohemian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG.He is best known for creating the first gasoline–electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner–Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing cars, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, and several other important developments and Porsche automobiles.
Volkswagen (VW; German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡn̩] ⓘ) [Note 1] is a German automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.Established in 1937 by The German Labour Front, it was revitalized into the global brand it is today after World War II by British Army officer Ivan Hirst.