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Encyclopedia > Ferdinand Piëch

Ferdinand Piëch (born April 17, 1937 Vienna) is a car engineer and manager. April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ...


Graduated from the Zurich Technical University with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1962.


His mother was Loise Piëch, a daugher of Ferdinand Porsche. Ferdinand Porsche (September 3, 1875 - January 30, 1951) was a Bohemian-born German automotive engineer born in Vratislavice, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), who developed the original Volkswagen and a prototype of the Tiger I tank. ...



 

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