Wolfgang Porsche

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Wolfgang Porsche at the IAA 2017

Wolfgang Porsche (born May 10, 1943 in Stuttgart ) is an Austrian manager and functionary. Since 2007 he has been chairman of the supervisory board of Porsche AG and Porsche Automobil Holding SE as well as a member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen AG and Audi AG . He also has functions in culture and science and is Honorary Consul of Norway .

Life

Wolfgang Porsche is the youngest son of Dorothea and Ferry Porsche , grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and cousin of Ferdinand Piëch , the former Chairman of the Board of Management and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG .

He grew up in 1944 in Zell am See, Austria . In 1950 he went back to Stuttgart with his parents, where he attended the Waldorf School . Porsche passed the Abitur in 1965 at the Odenwald School in Heppenheim and at the same time passed the journeyman's examination as a fitter.

This was followed by a degree in commercial science at the University of World Trade in Vienna with a degree in business administration. In 1973, Porsche obtained a doctorate in commercial sciences for a thesis on the typology of economic concentration phenomena.

Act

In 1973, Porsche founded Jamoto, the general importer for Yamaha motorcycles in Austria, in 1991 sales were expanded to Hungary, in 1992 Jamoto was converted into Yamaha Motor Austria, a joint venture with Yamaha Motor Europe NV , and the same happened in 1993 with Jamoto Hungary. Out of dissatisfaction with Yamaha, he sold all of his shares in both joint ventures to Yamaha Motor Europe NV in 2000. From 1976, he worked for five years as a manager at Daimler-Benz in sales and investment management. In 1978 he was appointed to the supervisory board of Porsche AG , which he took over as chairman in January 2007. In addition, from 1988 to 2011 he was managing partner of Porsche Holding GmbH, Salzburg.

After the death of his father Ferry Porsche in 1998, the Porsche family elected him to be their spokesman. Wolfgang Porsche sees his main task in continuing the company that his father Ferry and his grandfather Ferdinand Porsche have built up, together with the members of the Porsche and Piëch families, in their interests. As a member of the Supervisory Board, he played a key role in shaping and shaping the development of Porsche AG and, since 2007, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, which with 53.1 percent of the voting rights is the largest shareholder in Volkswagen AG .

Trivia

Since 2004, Wolfgang Porsche has been the owner of the more than 600 year old bulk material in Zell am See , which has served as the family headquarters since 1941. The Alpine organic farm today has around 200 cattle and receives EU agricultural subsidies .

Since 2019 he has been married to Claudia Porsche , a former State Councilor and professor of civil and criminal law, with whom he has appeared in public since 2007.

In 2013 he was elected to the seven-member council of the University of Salzburg .

Porsche has been Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Norway in the Austrian state of Salzburg for many years .

Porsche is a member of the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum and the Hypo-Kulturstiftung as well as being involved in other cultural and social areas, for example as a co-sponsor of the Burgtheater and the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.

Porsche has a son and a daughter from a first marriage and two sons from a second marriage. Both marriages ended in divorce.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Porsche is 70 - magazine auto.de . In: Magazine of auto.de . May 7, 2013 ( auto.de [accessed March 30, 2017]).
  3. ↑ a b Schüssel: "Wolfgang Porsche is an outstanding entrepreneur" , press release of the Austrian Parliament from February 2, 2005, accessed on August 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Consulates. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Porsche Press - Press releases and contacts - Porsche Germany. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/magazin/artikel/a-557063-6.html
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Fürweger: The PS dynasty. Carl Ueberreuter Verlag GmbH, 2015, ISBN 978-3-800-07925-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  8. ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de: main shareholder Porsche SE increases shares in Volkswagen
  9. ↑ Susanne Preuß: VW General Meeting: Who is really behind Volkswagen . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 22, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 30, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Hans Weiss: Black Book Agriculture - The machinations of agricultural policy , Verlag Zsolnay, 2010, ISBN 978-3-552-06145-3
  11. ^ Swabian wedding in Salzburg. February 5, 2019, accessed February 6, 2019 .
  12. ^ Members - University of Salzburg. Retrieved March 30, 2017 (Austrian German).
  13. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Wolfgang Porsche in the Salzburg University Council . ( salzburg.com [accessed March 30, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Martina Scherf: End of a power struggle . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed March 30, 2017]).
  15. ^ Committees - Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Schüssel: "Wolfgang Porsche is an outstanding entrepreneur" . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed on March 30, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Landeskorrespondenz - Landeskorrespondenz detailed view. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Tildelinger of orders and medals. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (Norwegian).
  19. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Porsche turns 70 . In: Magazine of auto.de . May 7, 2013 ( auto.de [accessed March 10, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Honorary Senators - University of Salzburg. Retrieved March 30, 2017 (Austrian German).
  21. ↑ Wolfgang Porsche receives honorary citizenship of Zell am See . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on August 13, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Salzburg is Porscheland: The state's great decoration of honor for Wolfgang Porsche . Salzburg state correspondence dated May 11, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2018.


personal data
SURNAME Porsche, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart