Talk:Ferry Porsche/Archives/2015

Collusion with Nazis

This article states "Porsche readily and eagerly worked for the regime and designed the most effective tanks used in World War II" This is contradicted by Ferry's autobiography (We at Porsche: The autobiography of Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferry Porsche) and apparently by Ferdinand while he lived. It is true that he, as an engineer readily and eagerly embraced the technical challenges the regime posed his fathers' company (including the invention of a people's car) but he, like his father, was put-off by politics, at best apolitical and disinterested. Could someone please consult his autobiography confirming this claim, and amend the article as appropriate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.100.6.60 (talk) 16:04, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was no consensus. —Nightstallion (?) 12:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche → Ferry Porsche He was and is known as Ferry Porsche, which distinguished him from his already famous father and his offspring. Hardly anyone knows all his official names by heart. It a mess to use all of those juniors and seniors in the article. See also the German wikipedia. --Matthead 15:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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Support - common name rule, it's not just a family nickname, Ferry is what he's generally known as. Also the title of the German WP entry. ~ trialsanderrors 19:36, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Oppose - I don´t like the idea. I believe that it´s enough with the indirect linking. --AndresArce 14:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)AndresArce

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"Ferry" is just nickname of Ernst Porche - not real name. Is the same case as with his son Ferdinand Alexander Porsche being nicknamed "Butzi". Also I think that he haven't founded Porche AG - full name of Porsche is Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG. I think it was initially founded as Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AK and renamed later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ReconTanto (talk • contribs)

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The above is an interesting debate, but either way the language, grammar, and style of the article are terrible; sorry if this offends anyone, but it seems to be a very poor translation. I am however unsure as to whether I should take time for this task as I do not want to offend anyone. ColinMarble 12:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Return to Stuttgart

The section about returning to Stuttgart is grammatically poor. Standing out to me are these:

• "Though, the old original Porsche 's facilities were occupied by American forces. Nonetheless, he rented some workshops then from the company Reutter —which was a constructor of bodies for automobiles—."
• "Eventually, it was so successful that, despite being originally planned an annual production of 500, they had already produced 78,000 units by 1967" Supertin (talk) 13:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Death

What was the cause? Qzm (talk) 00:41, 26 September 2009 (UTC)