biography
pronunciation:
[paw(r)shuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1951)
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| biography:
| Automobile designer, born in Hafersdorf, Germany. He designed cars for Daimler and Auto Union, then set up his own studio, and in 1934 produced the plans for a revolutionary type of cheap car with the engine in the rear, to which the Nazis gave the name Volkswagen (‘people's car’). The Porsche sports car was introduced in 1950. |
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