Josef Ganz
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Josef Ganz was a German car designer born in Budapest, Hungary.
From the early 1930s he designed several small cars including the Standard Superior and Bungartz Butz. The Standard Superior was claimed by some to be the inspiration behind the Volkswagen Beetle.
As a Jew he was persecuted by the Nazi regime and fled from Germany to Liechtenstein where he ran a design bureau. After World War II he worked for the Swiss Rapid car company. Later, Ganz worked for Holden in Australia. He died in 1967.
