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Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is mourning the loss of the
father of the 911, Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the
Honorary President of the Supervisory Board. He died on April 5,
2012, in Salzburg. He was...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is mourning the loss of the
father of the 911, Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the
Honorary President of the Supervisory Board. He died on April 5,
2012, in Salzburg. He was 76 years old.
Ferdinand Alexander
Porsche, or F.A. Porsche as called by his colleagues, was born on
December 11, 1935 in Stuttgart and was the eldest son of Dorothea
and Ferry Porsche, and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the
founder of the Porsche car brand.
Automobiles dominated F.A.
Porsche’s childhood as he spent plenty of time in Porsche’s
construction areas and development workshops with his grandfather.
In 1943, the family moved as well as the Porsche brand moved to Zell
am See in Austria, where he attended school. He returned to
Stuttgart in 1950 and furthered his education in the College of
Design in Ulm.
In 1958, F.A. Porsche, started in the design
office of the former Dr. Ing hc F. Porsche KG. His first model was
the successor to the 356 series. In 1962, he became the head of the
Porsche Design Studio and debuted the Porsche 901 (or 911) a year
later. Elements of his design and vision still live on the seventh
generation 911 today. F.A. Porsche also designed the Formula 1
racecar type 804 and the Porsche 904 Carrera GTS – still
considered as one of the most beautiful racing cars ever.
He
founded the ‘Porsche Design Studio’ when the Porsche car company
was made into a limited company in 1971/72, which also saw the other
family members retired from the car company’s business
operations.
In 1974, the headquarters of Porsche Design was
relocated to Zell am See in Austria. In the following decades, he
designed a number of men’s watches eyewear and writing
instruments. Under the brand “Design by FA Porsche”, he and his
team penned a variety of industrial products, household appliances
and consumer good for internationally known clients.
F.A. Porsche
won countless honours and awards for his work as a car designer and
his other designs. The “Comité International de Promotion et de
Prestige” was honoured to him in 1968 for outstanding aesthetic
design of the Porsche 911, while he was chosen as the Industrie
Forum Design Hannover (iF) 1992 “award winners”. He earned the
of professor from the Austrian Federal President in 1999.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was a Porsche AG shareholder and board
member. From 1990 to 1993, F.A. Porsche held the role of supervisory
board chairman and thus had large share of the economic turnaround
of Porsche AG. In 2005 he handed over his mandate to his son
Ferdinand Oliver and took the position of honourary chairman of the
supervisory board.
Matthias Müller, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Porsche AG, paid tribute to Ferdinand Alexander
Porsche’s services to the sports car manufacturer “We mourn the
death of our partner, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. As the creator of
the Porsche 911, he established a design culture in our company that
has shaped our sports cars to this very day. His philosophy of good
design is a legacy to us that we will honour for all time.”
An
official memorial service will be held in Stuttgart at a later date.
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Yep, It's never going to be the same without him