Editing Porsche (section)

=== Company logo ===
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Wappen Volksstaat Württemberg (Farbe).svg|[[Coat of arms]] of [[Free People's State of Württemberg|Württemberg]] during the [[Weimar Republic|Weimar-era]]
DEU Stuttgart COA.svg|[[Stuttgart#Name and coat of arms|Coat of arms of Stuttgart]]
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Porsche's company logo stems from the [[Coat of arms of Württemberg|coat of arms of the Free People's State of Württemberg]] of [[Weimar Germany]] of 1918–1933, which had [[Stuttgart]] as its capital. (The [[Bundesland (Germany)|Bundesland]] of [[Württemberg-Hohenzollern]] used the same arms from 1945 to 1952, while Stuttgart during these years operated as the capital of adjacent [[Württemberg-Baden]].) The arms of Stuttgart appear in the middle of the logo as an [[inescutcheon]], for the company had its headquarters in Stuttgart. The heraldic symbols, combined with the texts "Porsche" and "Stuttgart", do not form a conventional [[coat of arms]], since [[Achievement (heraldry)|heraldic achievement]]s never spell out the name of the [[armiger]] nor the armiger's home town in the shield.

Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern both in 1952 became part of the present Bundesland of [[Baden-Württemberg]] after the political consolidation of [[West Germany]] in 1949, but the old design of the arms of Württemberg lives on in the Porsche logo. On 30 January 1951, not long before the formation of Baden-Württemberg, Ferdinand Porsche died from complications following a stroke.