Ferdinand Porsche Nazi Party and allegedly the SS. He was a recipient of the German National Prize for Art and Science, the SS-Ehrenring and the War Merit Cross, and was called the "Great German Engineer" by Nazi officials. Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1996 and won the Car Engineer of the Century award in 1999. Ferdinand Porsche was born to ethnic German parents in Liberec (), northern Bohemia, part of the Austrian Empire at that time, and today part of the Czech Republic. Ferdinand was his parents' third child. His father, Anton Porsche, was a master
Tiger I command. These battalions would be deployed to critical sectors, either for breakthrough operations or, more typically, counter-attacks. A few favoured divisions, such as the "Grossdeutschland", and the 1st SS "Leibstandarte" Adolf Hitler, 2nd SS "Das Reich", and 3rd SS "Totenkopf" Panzergrenadier Divisions at Kursk, had a Tiger company in their tank regiments. The "Grossdeutschland" Division had its Tiger company increased to a battalion as the III Panzer Battalion of the Panzer Regiment "Grossdeutschland". 3rd SS "Totenkopf" retained its Tiger I company through the entire war. 1st SS and 2nd SS had their Tiger companies taken away and incorporated into the