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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 the life and legacy of Josef Ganz, the Jewish engineer who designed and built the first Volkswagen Beetle prototype in 1933, before Hitler's regime. Explore his books, his vehicles, his film, his photos and his descendants on this website dedicated to his memory and legacy.
Josef Ganz (1898-1967) should receive the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. This attempt came almost three decades after the Jewish engineer Josef Ganz had escaped from Nazi-Germany, narrowly escaping assassination. Josef Ganz was originally born in Budapest, on July 1, 1898.
This documentary tells the compelling and never-before-told story of Jewish engineer Josef Ganz, who invented Adolf Hitler’s dream: the Volkswagen Beetle, and who ultimately lost everything except his life.
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Jan 20, 2012 · “The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz” is an intriguing book about a Jewish engineer whose designs in the 1930s laid out the basics for the Volkswagen Beetle championed by Hitler. Skip to ...
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.
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.
