{"id":35873,"date":"2018-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/75th-birthday-of-wolfgang-porsche\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:52:49","slug":"75th-birthday-of-wolfgang-porsche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/75th-birthday-of-wolfgang-porsche\/","title":{"rendered":"75th Birthday of Wolfgang Porsche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Wolfgang Porsche was born on May 10 1943 as the youngest son of Dorothea and Ferry Porsche in Stuttgart, today’s car brand with the same name didn’t even exist.<\/span> Only five years later, his father founded the company with the sports car 356, the beginning of a success story lasting until today<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span> Thus he continued the work of Dr Ing hc Ferdinand Porsche, his father and grandfather of our Jubilee, who operated a design office in Stuttgart before the Second World War and was instrumental in vehicles such as the Auto Union Grand Prix racecar or the Volkswagen.

But back to Wolfgang Porsche.<\/span> <\/span>Due to the escalating war, the family fled to Zell am See in Austria in 1944.<\/span><\/span> It was not until 1950 that the Porsches returned to Stuttgart, where Wolfgang attended the Waldorf School before graduating from the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim.<\/span> At the same time he went through an apprenticeship as a locksmith, which he followed by a study of commercial science in Vienna, which he graduated in 1973 with a doctorate.<\/span> <\/span>In the same year he took over imports of Yamaha motorcycles to Austria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> as the boss of his company Jamoto, which he successfully expanded in 1991 in Hungary. However, following a transformation into joint venture companies Yamaha Motor Austria and Yamaha Motor Hungary, there were discrepancies between him and Yamaha, which led him to sell his shares in 2000.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>
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