Anton Piëch (; 21 September 1894 – 29 August 1952) was an Austrian-German lawyer and the son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche. He headed Volkswagenwerk GmbH between 1941 and 1945, which produced the Volkswagen vehicles (KdF-Wagen) at the factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. Biography Piëch was born 21 September 1894 in Vienna, the son of lawyer Anton Paul Piëch. He studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate of jurisprudence in 1922. He established himself as a lawyer in his hometown, where his clients included several Austrian Nazis, among others. At the end of the 1920s, he defended Ferdinand Porsche in litigation against Daimler-Benz over an employment contract. In 1928, Piëch married Louise Porsche, the daughter of Ferdinand Porsche. Together they had three sons, Ernst (born 1929), Ferdinand (born 1937), and Hans-Michel (born 1942), and a daughter, Louise Daxer-Piëch (1932–2006). Piëch had a 15% share in the founding of the Porsche company in Stuttgart on 25 April 1931. In the Kommanditgesellschaft founded in 1937 (Porsche KG), his share was 10%. Piëch represented the company in legal and contractual matters. In May 1933, Piëch a became a member of the then-illegal Austrian Nazi Party. In July 1937, months before the Anschluss, he joined the NSDAP of Nazi Germany. He joined the SS in 1944. In June 1941, Piëch took over as plant manager at the plant where Volkswagen were produced in Wolfsburg. 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. 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 his leadership, 20,000 forced laborers from Poland, the USSR, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands worked in the plant, as well as German political prisoners, and from 1942 to 1945, Arbeitsdorf concentration camp prisoners. In total, they accounted for about two-thirds of the work force of the plant during World War II. According to some incomplete lists, some 500 prisoners of war, deportees, and concentration camp prisoners died in Wolfsburg. In Rühen, near the factory, an orphanage for babies of the forced laborers was built. At least 350 children died there, being separated from their mothers two weeks after birth so that they could return to work. Piëch was also a factory leader of four companies