Louise Piëch

Louise Piëch ( born August 29, 1904 in Wiener Neustadt, † February 10, 1999 in Zell am See) was an Austrian entrepreneur.

Life

Louise Piëch was the daughter of Ferdinand Porsche. In 1928 she married the Viennese lawyer Anton Piëch, who was among other things, from 1941 to 1945 one of the three chief executive of the Volkswagenwerk GmbH. They had three sons Ernst ( born 1929 ), Ferdinand ( b. 1937 ) and Hans Michel ( b. 1942 ) and daughter Louise Daxer- Piëch (* 1932, † 21 October 2006). Louise Piëch lived with her family in Austria.

On the initiative of Louise Piëch the outsourced company parts to Austria, the Porsche KG Stuttgart in October 1943 were transferred to her and her husband and in a newly established Porsche constructions - Ges.mbH incorporated with headquarters in Gmünd in Carinthia. Anton Piëch was involved up to that point with 10% and Louise Piëch with 5% of Porsche KG. The remaining residual assets in Austria Parts Porsche KG in 1947 were incorporated into the Porsche GmbH designs with her ​​work Gmünd. The company moved to Salzburg; Manager was beside Louise Piëch her ​​brother Ferry Porsche. From the Porsche GmbH designs, finally emerging today's Porsche Holding.

After the early death of her husband in 1952, she headed to 1971 Porsche Holding in Austria. The company was until 2011 owned by the Porsche and Piëch families, and partly because of a settlement agreement with the Volkswagen plant in 1948 general importer of Volkswagen and Porsche for Austria. Porsche Holding was until 2011 the largest private companies in Austria and is now a 100 % subsidiary of Volkswagen AG.

Her grave is located in Zell am See, where her urn is buried in the chapel of the bulk material.

Honors

Louise Piëch was in 1959 appointed to their economic merits for Kommerzialbank Councillor. 1976 appointed the Technical University of Vienna them to honor Senator. 1979 Louise Piëch was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit large, honored in 1984 with the ring of the city of Salzburg and in 1994 with the great golden decorations of the Republic of Austria.