Project update: wooden bodywork in the making
Dear all, It has been a few months since our last update, and we are well into the New Year, but there is much news to report! Firma Mebero s.r.l.,…
Josef Ganz honored at Louwman Museum
The Louwman Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, has opened a permanent exhibition that highlights the development of the Volkswagen Beetle – strongly recognizing the contribution of Josef Ganz. The…
Update on 1933 Standard Superior restoration project
We are very excited to report that Firma Mebero s.r.l., Dr. A. Bilciurescu in Cluj – Rumania is making good progress with the restoration of our 1933 Standard Superior. A…
AutoCult releases 1:43 Standard Superior model
Specialty model car manufacturer AutoCult from Germany has released a special collectors’ set entitled “The Road to the People’s Car”, including four 1:43 scale models of pre-VW cars and prototypes and…
Heritage plaque for Josef Ganz in Australia
26 July 2017 will be the 50th anniversary of Josef Ganz’s death. He passed away in his hometown of St Kilda. Later this year, Port Phillip council will honour him…
AutoCult releases 1:43 “Swiss VW” model
Specialty model car manufacturer AutoCult from Germany has just released a 1:43 scale model of the 1946 Rapid “Swiss Volkswagen”, which will be made in a limited edition of 333 pieces. This car…
Crowdfunding Project – Press Release
Crowdfunding project aims to rebuild the original «Volkswagen» of Jewish engineer Josef Ganz https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restoring-josef-ganz-s-1933-vw-beetle-forerunner/x/15995917#/ The Hague, the Netherlands / Bern, Switzerland – Unique crowdfunding project aims to restore the original…
Crowdfunding Project to start soon
In 1933, at the Berlin motor show, Jewish engineer Josef Ganz presented a revolutionary “Volkswagen” before Hitler. Fast forward five years: Hitler introduces the KdF Volkswagen to the German people while…
‘Nudnik. Forgetting Josef Ganz’ at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The new exhibition “Wolfsburg Unlimited. A City as World Laboratory” at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg attempts to rethink Wolfsburg from an artistic perspective: as a testing ground for our present and…
Visit Josef Ganz’s former St. Kilda residence
In 1961, Josef Ganz moved into a small apartment in Edgewater Towers, Melbourne’s first large scale modernist apartment block, right next to the beach in the suburb of St. Kilda. On…
