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Arrest. Josef Ganz himself was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1933 based on falsified charges of blackmail of the automotive industry. He was eventually released. He fled Germany in June 1934 – the month Adolf Hitler assigned Ferdinand Porsche to design a mass-producible auto for a consumer price of 1,000 Reichsmark.
Learn about Josef Ganz, a Jewish engineer who designed a revolutionary car that inspired Hitler's Volkswagen project. Explore his books, documentary film, vehicles, and cultural events on this website.
Josef Ganz (1898-1967) was a Jewish engineer and journalist who designed and promoted the idea of a German Volkswagen in the 1920s and 1930s. He faced persecution and threats from the Nazi regime and the automotive industry, but continued his work in Switzerland and France until his death.
Josef Ganz was a German car designer born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary). Josef Ganz was born on 1 July 1898 into a Jewish family living in Budapest, then the second-largest city within Austria-Hungary.
May 19, 2018 · Josef Ganz was a German-Jewish automotive expert who developed many concepts for the Nazi \"people's car\" but was excluded from the credit and persecuted by the regime. Learn about his life, achievements and legacy in a Nashville exhibit and a book by Paul Schilperoord.
A feature documentary about Josef Ganz, the Jewish engineer who invented the Volkswagen Beetle and lost it to Hitler. Watch the trailer and learn how Ganz's dream was stolen by the Nazis.
While the chassis construction, based on the many patents of Josef Ganz, was praised for its revolutiory design, the bodywork was critized for being a little unpractical. Standard reacted to the criticism and developed an improved body for the production model. The production model of the Standard Superior, 1933.
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