While Porsche was financially safe, former manager and shareholder Adolf Rosenberger became increasingly endangered. Rosenberger, of Jewish heritage, had joined the company with Ferdinand Porsche and Porsche's son-in-law Anton Piech in 1931. He eventually fled from the Nazis to the US, where he ended up unemployed. Piech, father of VW's current chairman of the board Ferdinand Piech, was a staunch Nazi, but apparently had nothing against using Rosenberger's money, which "secured survival" for the company during that period, according to Landenberger.
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