フェルディナント・ピエヒ博士逝去

フェルディナント・ピエヒ博士が逝去されたそうです。
Ferdinand Piech, architect who forged VW into giant, dies at 82

https://www.autonews.com/executives/ferdinand-piech-architect-who-forged-vw-giant-dies-82

＜以下記事の一部引用＞
Ferdinand Piech, the dominating and demanding former chairman and CEO who transformed Volkswagen Group into one of the world’s biggest automakers, adding Porsche and other exotic nameplates to its holdings, has died. He was 82.

He died Sunday at a hospital in Bavaria, Germany, according to Bild newspaper.

Piech collapsed in a restaurant in Rosenheim, Bavaria, on Sunday evening in front of his wife, Ursula, Bild reported. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died that evening, hospital sources told the paper.

Ursula Piech, in a statement late Monday, said he died “suddenly and unexpectedly.” The Piech and Porsche families control a majority stake in Volkswagen Group through their family holding company, Porsche SE.

Under Piech, Volkswagen Group assembled an assortment of blue-chip brands and became the largest automaker in Europe and challenged Toyota Motor Corp. in recent years for the title of largest automaker in the world.
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Ferdinand Piëch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Pi%C3%ABch

技術者としてはもちろん、経営者としても手腕を発揮した欧州自動車界の巨人たちの一人だったと思います。
私としては、アウディ・クワトロの開発者としてのイメージが一番強いですが、それだけにとどまらず、いろいろと影響力のある技術開発に携わっておられますね。

ご冥福をお祈りいたします。