Ferdinand Piëch

Family control of a car giant. Piëch, Ferdinand Porsche's grandson, ran Volkswagen and then chaired its supervisory board, while his family and the Porsche family together owned Porsche SE, which after a failed attempt by Porsche to take over VW in 2008 and 2009 ended up holding most of VW's voting shares. The German state of Lower Saxony keeps a blocking stake under the special Volkswagen law. He died in 2019.