Ferdinand Porsche - Cars, Life & Facts
Early Love of CarsBorn on September 3, 1875, in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), Ferdinand Porsche became fascinated with electricity at a young age. In 1893, when he was just 18 years old, Porsche landed a job at Bela Egger & Co., an electrical company in Vienna that was later renamed Brown Boveri. Around the same time, he enrolled as a part-time student at the Imperial Technical University in Reichenberg (now called the Vienna University of Technology).