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Franz Josef Popp (14 January 1886 in Vienna – 29 July 1954 in Stuttgart) was one of three men responsible for the founding of BMW AG and the First General Director of BMW AG from 1922 to 1942. A number of different candidates have been put forward as the “founders” of BMW AG. In the absence of Karl Rapp, Gustav Otto, Max Friz or Camillo ...
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Dec 19, 2023 · Joseph Popp outside his shop thought to have been taken in the late 1920s/ early 1930s Josef Popp pictured as a young man The testimony of a family that took in Hitler as he sought lodgings on his arrival in Munich on the eve of the First World War has shed new light on his radicalisation.
Mar 7, 2016 · Adolf Hitler tours a BMW plant in Munich with CEO Franz-Josef Popp in 1935. ... enormous suffering” it caused by using Nazi slave labor to fuel Adolf Hitler’s killing machine during World War ...
BMW's General Director Franz Josef Popp had to branch out again and BMW became a sub-contract manufacturer for braking system manufacturer Knorr Bremse. The major shareholder in BMW, Vienna based Italian speculator Camillo Castiglionli, sold all of his shares to Knorr Bremse in May 1920, who then acquired the remaining shares to make BMW a ...
Oct 5, 2019 · BMW’s Chief executive Franz-Josef Popp giving Hitler a tour in 1936 . In the eyes of the British, Germany’s biggest priority was to rebuild its economy, and people like Herbert and Günther ...
Today, BMW apologized for its involvement with Hitler’s government during the Second World War and expressed its “deep remorse.” Pictured is its Berlin showroom from 1939. Franz-Josef Popp, the CEO of BMW AG, gives Hitler a tour of the facility in 1936.
Dec 16, 2001 · By Lothar MacHtan. Dec. 16, 2001. In his youth Hitler imagined himself destined for higher things: he aspired to be an artist, not a civil servant or clerk. Despite this firm resolve, however, he ...
