* 1937 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive

h. c. F. Porsche GmbH in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, an Austrian engineer born in Maffersdorf, during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Porsche's son-in-law Anton Piëch, an Austrian lawyer.

Ferdinand Piëch, who was responsible for mechanical development of Porsche's serial and racing cars, formed his own engineering bureau, and developed a five-cylinder-inline diesel engine for Mercedes-Benz.

Ferdinand Porsche's grandson, Ferdinand Piëch, was chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen Group from 1993 to 2002.

Ferdinand Piëch and his cousin, Wolfgang Porsche, also seemed to be on a collision course.

Volkswagen AG chairman Ferdinand Piëch personally choose Dirk van Braeckel as head of design, and the subsequent Octavia and Fabia models made their way to the demanding European Union markets.

His nephew, Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, was chairman of Volkswagen from 1993 to 1998, and his son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, was involved in the design of the 911.

Examples of well-known business magnates include Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, utility and transportation magnate Samuel Insull, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, automobile magnate Henry Ford, Lakshmi Mittal of Arcelor Mittal, poultry magnate Frank Perdue of Perdue Farms, shipping magnate Charles T. Hinde, automobile magnate Ferdinand Piëch of Volkswagen Group, telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, and sports entertainment magnate Vince McMahon of WWE.

The Phaeton was conceived by Ferdinand Piëch, then chairman of Volkswagen Group.

It was also speculated that VW-Audi chairman Ferdinand Piëch wanted Audi's new Le Mans Prototype, the Audi R8 not to face competition from Porsche in 2004.

On April 20 Porsche's head of motorsports Ferdinand Piëch displayed 25 917s parked in front of the Porsche factory to the CSI inspectors.

Ferdinand Karl Piëch ( born 17 April 1937 ) is an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who is currently the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group.

A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Piëch started his career at Porsche, before leaving for Audi after an agreement that no member of the Porsche or Piëch families should be involved in the day-to-day operations of the company.

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During his 20-month imprisonment, Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry Porsche, decided to build his own car, because he could not find an existing one that he wanted to buy.

Among other things, Julius wanted the Venetian possession of Romagna ; Emperor Maximilian I wanted Friuli and Veneto ; Louis XII wanted Cremona ; and Ferdinand II wanted the Apulian ports. This war was a conflict in what was collectively known as the " Italian Wars ".

The Bourbons first moved to Teplitz, but as Ferdinand wanted to use Prague Castle on a more permanent basis, they purchased Kirchberg Castle.

But Ferdinand wanted extra territorial gains after the humiliation of the Balkan Wars.

He had wanted to name these Mt Mueller and Lake Ferdinand respectively, to honour his benefactor Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, however Mueller prevailed on him to instead honour the King Amadeus of Spain and Queen Olga of Württemberg.

Some suspected that he had been poisoned by his father-in-law Ferdinand II who had always disliked his foreign Habsburg origins and with whom he never wanted to share power.

Ferdinand ( who would become Emperor Ferdinand II following Matthias ' death in 1619 ) saw Protestantism as inimical to the Empire, and wanted to impose standardized, centralized rule on Bohemia while forcefully encouraging conversion to the Catholic faith.

Murat wanted to create a united and independent Italy and when Ferdinand mounted the throne, Murat died.

In 1509, de Leon became interested in acquiring the island, and this caused a bitter rivalry between him and King Ferdinand II of Aragon who wanted Mona Island for his own private vacation retreat.

Influenced by Gaudí ´ s Parc Güell in Barcelona, and Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo, as well as Palais Idéal by Ferdinand Cheval, and Watts Towers by Simon Rodia, Niki de Saint Phalle decided that she wanted to make something similar ; a monumental sculpture park created by a woman.

In 1546 German Protestants united in the Schmalkaldic League to wage war against the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Whereas Ferdinand wanted to aid his brother, the Hussite and pro-Protestant Czech nobility sympathized with the German Protestant princes.

Whoever wanted to marry an archduchess or an archduke of the Habsburg dynasty had to originate from a ruling or formerly ruling house, as was stipulated by the Familienstatut des Allerhöchsten Herrscherhauses, the Family Statute of the Highest Monarch's House, issued by Ferdinand I in 1839.

This term was also used to describe how the Kaiser of Germany ( Kaiser Wilhelm II ) told Austria-Hungary officials that they could deal with Serbia however they wanted after Serbian Nationalists assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Ferdinand Peck, a Chicago businessman, incorporated the Chicago Auditorium Association in December 1886 to develop what he wanted to be the world's largest, grandest, most expensive theater that would rival such institutions as the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

Giles had originally wanted to name these Lakes Ferdinand and Mt Mueller, but Mueller prevailed upon Giles to name them Lake Amadeus, after King Amadeus of Spain, and Mt Olga, after Queen Olga of Württemberg, both of whom had granted him honours.

The highly influential Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ ) politician Franz Olah, then vice-president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation ( ÖGB ), brought Dichand into contact with the German businessman Ferdinand Karpik, who wanted to buy a share of 50 %.

Under pressure from his subjects and looking to be recognized as Bulgaria's sovereign by the Russian emperor, Ferdinand wanted to have their eldest son, Boris, converted to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the summer of 1895.

As a gay man with no requirement to produce further heirs, Ferdinand stipulated to his assistant that he wanted a bride who did not expect affection or attention.

By the late 1960s, Porsche had changed significantly as a company, and executives including owner Ferdinand Porsche were playing with the idea of adding a luxury touring car to the line-up.

Like its cousin, the Volkswagen Beetle ( which Ferdinand Porsche Senior had designed ), the 356 was a four-cylinder, air-cooled, rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive car utilizing unitized pan and body construction.

* June 21 – WWII: Vichy France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of Germany in 1918.

* 1672 – Ferdinand Verbiest may have built what may have been the first steam powered car

In 1931, Ferdinand Porsche developed the Porsche Type 12, or " Auto für Jedermann " ( car for everybody ) for Zündapp.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler gave the order to Ferdinand Porsche to develop a Volkswagen ( literally, " people's car " in German, pronounced ).

Realising the dining car of the train was behind his own carriage, Ferdinand obtained his revenge on the Archduke by refusing him entry through his own carriage to the dining car.

The DAF and KdF's most ambitious program was the " people's car ", the Volkswagen, originally a project undertaken at Hitler's request by the car-maker Ferdinand Porsche.

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Erwin Komenda, Ferdinand Porsche's first car body designer, was forced to develop an all-new unitized bodytub structure since the flat floorpan chassis of the existing VW vehicles was unsuited to smooth movement through water.

* Ferdinand Porsche ( 1875 – 1951 ), car designer

* Ferdinand Porsche ( 1875 – 1951 ), car designer born in a nearby village ( Vratislavice nad Nisou ) now part of Liberec

It is also the ( alleged ) birthplace of Leopold Loyka, the driver of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car when Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo 1914, an event which triggered the First World War.

Ferdinand " Ferry " Porsche, who was running the company at the time, handed development of the vehicle over to Ernst Fuhrmann, who adapted the turbo-technology originally developed for the 917 / 30 CAN-AM car to the 3. 0 litre flat-six from the Carrera RS 3. 0, creating what Porsche internally dubbed as 930.

Čabrinović hid in an alleyway, and as soon as Ferdinand drove past, he threw his bomb at Ferdinand's car, but forgot about the ten second delay.

In 1932, Ferdinand Porsche designed a Grand Prix racing car for the Auto Union company.

He fled Germany in June 1934 – the same month Adolf Hitler gave Ferdinand Porsche the brief for designing a mass-producible car for a consumer price of 1, 000 Reichsmark.

From 1931, two years prior to Hitler's accession to power, Ferdinand Porsche and Zündapp developed the prototype " Auto für Jedermann " (" car for everyone "), which was the first time the name " Volkswagen " was used.

After news about the results achieved with the Ardie-Ganz and Adler Maikäfer prototypes reached Zündapp, the company turned to Ferdinand Porsche, in September 1931 to develop an " Auto für Jedermann " (" car for everyman ").

After the First World War, he joined the Austrian car manufacturer Austro-Daimler, where Ferdinand Porsche appointed him chief tester.

The prototype VW 1-Litre concept car was shown to the public in April 2002 when Dr. Ferdinand Piech, then Chairman of the Board of Management, drove the concept between Wolfsburg and Hamburg as part of the Volkswagen annual meeting of stockholders.