Anton Piëch (German pronunciation: [ˈantoːn ˈpiːɛç]; 21 September 1894 – 29 August 1952) was an Austrian-German lawyer and the son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche.
He succeeded Otto Dyckhoff as one of the managers of Volkswagenwerk GmbH, along with Ferdinand Porsche and Bodo Lafferentz, which decades later would become the current Volkswagen Group.
[5] As Ferdinand Porsche's right-hand man, Piëch became involved in the adaptation of the Wolfsburg plant for the manufacture of weapons, like the V-1 flying bomb.
Under the pretext of relocating the address of Volkswagenwerk GmbH to a safe place, he moved 10 million Reichsmark from Nejdek to Zell am See, where his family owned a farm.
The money was supposed to be used for the relocation of a factory from Nejdek to Allgäu, but this never came to happen, and no funds ended up financing Porsche KG.
After the war, due to the absence of a notice of dismissal, Piëch continued to serve as chief executive of Volkswagenwerk GmbH until November 1945.
They were accused of forcibly transferring French workers to Wolfsburg, and organizing the deportation of executives of Peugeot to Nazi concentration camps during the German occupation of France.
[9] On 17 September 1948 in Bad Reichenhall, Piëch signed the agreement between Volkswagenwerk GmbH (under the leadership of new CEO Heinrich Nordhoff) and Porsche KG.