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Porsche at Daimler, the War, and the Road to Independence

Photorealistic historical mural tracing Porsche’s 1931 engineering office through Auto Union, Volkswagen, wartime production, forced labor, postwar imprisonment, and the Cisitalia Type 360.

A Name Without a Car

On April 25, 1931, the Porsche name officially entered the automobile business.

It did not enter as a badge affixed to the hood of a sports car. There was no factory assembling Porsche automobiles, no dealer network waiting to receive them, and no production line preparing to transform Ferdinand Porsche’s ideas into a recognizable family of road machines. There was not yet a Porsche automobile at all.

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