DER WINDHUND
Shortly after the Second World War, the Porsche family wanted a project that would renew the company’s design consultancy relationship with Volkswagen
The story of this pretty little sports car begins in a dreary old sawmill at Gmünd in Carinthia, Austria. Ferdinand Porsche had been ordered to leave Germany in 1944 to avoid allied bombing. Ferdinand had often tested some of his previous designs over the Katschberg Pass, one of the steepest roads in Europe, and knew the mayor of the nearby town of Gmünd. The mayor, keen for any economic investment in the small town, was happy to help find a place for the famous German family. After the war ended, Ferdinand was held by the French as part of the repatriation process, so his son, Ferry, carried on the family business in the sawmill. In Austria, with staff or around 200, Gmünd would become the birthplace of the Porsche automobile marque.
Post-war Porsche project
Shortly after the Second World War, the Porsche family wanted a project that would renew the company’s design consultancy relationship with Volkswagen. The car they produced
