Franz Xaver Reimspieß
Franz Xaver Reimspieß (born November 28, 1900 in Wiener Neustadt , † 1979 ibid) was an Austrian vehicle designer.
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Reimspieß grew up in Wiener Neustadt. Immediately after secondary school, he began to work as an assistant at Austro Daimler in Wiener Neustadt, since his father had to enter due to the First World War . Due to his talent for creating complex drawings quickly and without errors, he was soon hired as a technical draftsman . In the last year of the war, 1918, he had to enter. He came home wounded and continued to work at Austro Daimler. But when there was a wave of layoffs there in 1922, he lost this job again. Reimspieß completed an engineering degree and returned to Austro Daimler in 1925.
He initially worked on a top secret project, the ADGZ armored car . Austro Daimler was actually not allowed to build this after the Treaty of St. Germain . This project became known and had to be ended. So he continued to work under the designer Karl Rabe on constructions such as the ADR 6 or ADR 8.
After the closure of the factory in Wiener Neustadt, he went to Porsche with Rabe in Stuttgart, where at the time they were working on the development of the VW Beetle . He designed the legendary 4-cylinder boxer engine. Reimspieß invented the VW logo and was involved in the design of the Porsche crest. During the Second World War , Reimspieß developed, among other things, the Porsche Tiger tank as chief designer in the Nibelungenwerke tank development center in St. Valentin .
His son Peter Reimspieß was born on March 9, 1939 (from his marriage to Maria Vycichl), who later also worked temporarily at Porsche, before becoming a professor of product design / basics at the University of Art and Design Halle / Burg after several years of freelance design work Giebichenstein took over (until 2004).
After the war, Franz Xaver Reimspieß worked for a short time at Steyr , but soon returned to Porsche in Stuttgart, where he headed the design office in the 1960s.
Only after his retirement did he return to his hometown Wiener Neustadt, where he died in 1979 and was also buried.
In Wiener Neustadt the Franz-Reimspieß-Weg was named in his honor.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reimspieß, Franz Xaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian vehicle designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiener Neustadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1979 |
| Place of death | Wiener Neustadt |