Louise Piëch
Louise Piëch , née Louise Porsche (born August 29, 1904 in Wiener Neustadt ; † February 10, 1999 in Zell am See ) was an Austrian entrepreneur.
Life
Louise Piëch was the daughter of Ferdinand Porsche . In 1928 she married the Viennese lawyer Anton Piëch , who was one of the three chief executives of Volkswagenwerk GmbH from 1941 to 1945 . Together they had three sons Ernst (* 1929), Ferdinand (1937–2019) and Hans Michel (* 1942) as well as their daughter Louise Daxer-Piëch (1932–2006). Louise Piëch lived with her family in Austria.
On the initiative of Louise Piëch, the company parts of Porsche KG Stuttgart that had been outsourced to Austria were transferred to her and her husband in October 1943 and incorporated into a newly founded Porsche-Konstruktionen-Ges.mbH based in Gmünd in Carinthia . Until then, Anton Piëch held a 10% stake and Louise Piëch had a 5% stake in Porsche KG. The remainder of the Porsche KG assets remaining in Austria were transferred to Porsche-Konstruktionen GmbH with its Gmünd plant in 1947 . The company headquarters was relocated to Salzburg ; In addition to Louise Piëch, her brother Ferry Porsche was the managing director . Today's Porsche Holding emerged from Porsche-Konstruktionen GmbH .
After the early death of her husband in 1952, she managed Porsche Holding in Austria until 1971. The company was owned by the Porsche and Piëch families until 2011 and, among other things, due to a severance agreement with the Volkswagen factory from 1948, it was the general importer of Volkswagen and Porsche for Austria. Until 2011, Porsche Holding was the largest private company in Austria and is now a 100% subsidiary of Volkswagen AG.
Her grave is in Zell am See , where her urn is buried in the house chapel of the bulk material .
Honors
Louise Piëch was appointed Commercial Councilor in 1959 for her economic merits . In 1976 the Technical University of Vienna made her an honorary senator . In 1979 Louise Piëch was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit , in 1984 with the Ring of the City of Salzburg and in 1994 with the Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .
literature
- Hermann Becker: Louise Porsche-Piëch. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 641 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Walter Thaler. Pinzgauer! Heroes - fools - pioneers . Portraits from the provinces. newacademicpress. Vienna. ISBN 978-399036-014-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mommsen, Hans; Grieger, Manfred: The Volkswagen factory and its workers in the Third Reich , ECON Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, page 91, 937
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piëch, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Porsche, Louise (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiener Neustadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1999 |
| Place of death | Zell am See |