Every article about Volkswagen’s story starts with the same sentence: Volkswagen’s story is Ferdinand Porsche’s story. Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer. He designed some cars for Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Auto Union and Tatra. He also designed some military vehicles like advance German tank Tiger1 but he is best known for creating the Volkswagen Bug (beetle). In 1933 Adolf Hitler started an automotive venture. Hitler asked Ferdinand Porsche to design a car which is easy to reach and fulfill the compelling needs. Porsche agreed to create the Volkswagen (Means “people’s car “in German) for Hitler and a handful of engineers came together. They created the first prototype: Type32. Porsche and his team worked in conjunction with Nazi soldiers. Soldiers tested the Type32 under hard conditions and very few of them could survive. Hitler was a volatile person, after this unsuccessful test he burned all the prototypes but Ferdinand Porsche was a tenacious person so he never gave up working on Volkswagen. Until 1949 He solved all the problems and he made the Volkswagen stainless. In 1949 Volkswagens exported all over the world. Ferdinand Porsche died in 1951. He left the Wolfsburg Factory as a legacy to his son Ferry Porsche. In 60s Volkswagen became a symbol of peace. Millions of Volkswagens was sold all over the world.
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