Josef Ganz was a German car designer born in Budapest, Hungary. From the early 1930s he designed several small cars including the Standard Superior and Bungartz Butz. The Standard Superior was claimed by some to be the inspiration behind the Volkswagen Beetle. As a Jew he was persecuted by the Nazi regime and fled from Germany to Liechtenstein where he ran a design bureau. After World War II he worked for the Swiss Rapid car company. Wikipedia
When Bungartz & Co. had been founded in 1934, they manufactured not only car trailers, but rotary tillers as well, after the designs of the engineer Josef Fey. www.bungartz.nl/hist-bungartz.html
To both of them, Adolf Hitler and Josef Ganz, that cold February day - the opening day of the Berlin motor show - was of particular importance. www.ganz-volkswagen.org
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