Car Engineer of the Century Car Engineer of the Century The Car Engineer of the Century was an international award given to the most influential car engineer of the twentieth century. The election process was overseen by the Global Automotive Elections Foundation. The winner, Ferdinand Porsche, was announced at an awards gala on December 18, 1999 in Las Vegas. The process for deciding the "Car Engineer of the Century" started with the list of candidates below. The next step was for a jury of 132 professional automotive journalists, from 33 different countries, under the presidency of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, to reduce the list to
SS Panzer Brigade Gross company. The brigade participated in the fighting in Courland and Riga in August and September before it was transferred west to training grounds in Sennelager and Steinhagen in November where it was broken up for replacements. It was not formally disbanded until April 1945. SS Panzer Brigade Gross SS Panzer Brigade "Gross" was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, under the command of Obersturmbannführer Martin Gross. The brigade was formed from the SS Panzer Training and Replacement Regiment based in Dundaga, Latvia and the SS Panzer Troop Training Regiment "Seelager" based at the training