Editing Ferdinand Porsche (section)

==Early life==
{{See also|Porsche family}}
Ferdinand Porsche was born to Anna Porsche (née Ehrlich) and Anton Porsche, in Maffersdorf ([[Vratislavice nad Nisou]]) in northern [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]], part of [[Austria-Hungary]] at that time, and today part of the [[Czech Republic]].<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-26/porsche-founder-s-legacy-hits-nazi-past-in-czech-hometown.html Porsche Founder’s Legacy Hits Nazi Past in Czech Hometown]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JESAQAAMAAJ&q=%22where+in+1871+he+married+Anna+Ehrlich%22|title = The Amazing Porsche and Volkswagen Story|last1 = Robert Nitske|first1 = W.|year = 1958}}</ref> Ferdinand was his parents' third child. His father was a [[Panel beater|master panel-beater]].<ref name=AMuS041014>{{cite journal| title =Sensations-Fund: Der erste Porche [....Elektroauto P1...]| journal = Auto, Motor und Sport| volume = 04 2014| page = 135|year = 2014|publisher=Motor Presse Stuttgart GmbH & Co|location=Stuttgart }}</ref>

Ferdinand showed a great aptitude for technology and was especially intrigued by electricity from a young age. He was already attending classes at the Imperial Polytechnical College in [[Liberec|Reichenberg]] ({{langx|cs|Liberec}} - some {{convert|5|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} from his home)<ref name=Biography>[https://www.biography.com/business-figure/ferdinand-porsche Ferdinand Porsche - Cars, Life & Facts | Biography.com]</ref> at night, while still helping his father in his mechanical shop by day. Thanks to a referral, Porsche landed a job with the Béla Egger & Co. Electrical company in [[Vienna]] (later [[Brown, Boveri & Cie|Brown Boveri]],<ref name=Biography/> now [[ABB]]), and moved there in 1893, at age 18.<ref name=NGHung>{{cite web |title=Ferdinand Porsche, a 'Bogár' atyja |url=http://www.geographic.hu/index.php?act=napi&id=3027 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612152844/http://www.geographic.hu/index.php?act=napi&id=3027 |archive-date=12 June 2008 |language=hu |work=[[National Geographic Magazine|National Geographic]] Hungarian ed. |date=3 September 2004 |access-date=10 December 2008}}</ref> While working in Vienna, he enrolled as a part-time student at what is now the [[Vienna University of Technology]],<ref name=Biography/> and went there whenever he could after work. Besides attending classes there, Porsche did not complete any formal engineering education. During his five years with [[Béla Egger]], he built their first electric [[Hub motor|wheel-hub motor]], the concept for which had been developed by American inventor Wellington Adams, and Porsche also raced it, in 1897.<ref name=Biography/>

[[File:Ferdinand Porsche Vratislavice (3).jpg|thumb|Birth house of Ferdinand Porsche in Vratislavice nad Nisou]]
After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of [[World War I]], he chose [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovak]] citizenship.<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yTBx13OJ9msC&pg=PA49 |title=Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle |first= Andrea |last= Hiott |publisher= Random House |year= 2012 |isbn= 978-0345521446|page=49 }}</ref> In 1934, either [[Adolf Hitler]] or [[Joseph Goebbels]] made Porsche a naturalized German citizen.<ref name="Flink" /><ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lxmspSG-MrsC&pg=PA33 |title= Volkswagen Military Vehicles of the Third Reich: An Illustrated History |first= Blaine |last= Taylor |publisher= Da Capo Press |year= 2004 |isbn= 0306813130 }}</ref>