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{{Short description|Automobile pioneer from Zagreb, Croatia}}
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{{ infobox scientist
| name = Ferdinand Budicki II
| image = Ferdinand Budicki.jpg
| caption = Budicki, {{c.|1940}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1871|4|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Zagreb]], [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|6|25|1871|4|11|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Zagreb]], [[Yugoslavia]]
| nationality = Croatian
| known_for = Pioneering [[motorsports]] in [[Croatia]]
}}

'''Ferdinand Budicki II''' ({{IPAc-en|b|ʊ|d|'|ɪ|t|s|k|i:}}; 11 April 1871 – 25 June 1951) was a Croatian pioneer of car, bicycle and airplane culture.<ref name="death date">{{cite web|title=Značajne ličnosti – B|trans-title=Personages of note – B|url=http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/default.aspx?id=302|publisher=Zagreb City Cemetery|accessdate=11 August 2015|language=hr|quote=Categorized under Lipanj ("June")}}</ref> A resident of [[Zagreb]], Croatia, Budicki was reportedly the first to drive a car in his home city,<ref name="technical museum">{{cite web|title=Opet taj huncut Budicki|trans-title=That rascal Budicki is at it again|url=http://tehnicki-muzej.hr/hr/kalendar/opet-taj-huncut-budicki,3748.html?t=i|publisher=[[Technical Museum, Zagreb]]|accessdate=11 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806024459/http://tehnicki-muzej.hr/hr/kalendar/opet-taj-huncut-budicki,3748.html?t=i|language=hr|archive-date=6 August 2016}}</ref> and the first to open a [[car dealership]] and [[car mechanic|repair shop]] in Croatia.<ref name="time out">{{cite web|title=Ferdinand Budicki Auto Museum|url=http://www.timeout.com/croatia/museums/ferdinand-budicki-auto-museum|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|accessdate=11 August 2015|orig-date=24 April 2014|date=23 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317204126/https://www.timeout.com/croatia/museums/ferdinand-budicki-auto-museum|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 1901, he drove from [[Vienna]], Austria to Zagreb in an 1899 [[Opel]], stirring up a commotion, as people and horses that drove carriages at the time were not used to motor vehicles, even though the car's top speed was, according to Budicki, a mere {{convert|30|km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref name="technical museum" />

==Early life==
Ferdinand Budicki was born on 11 April 1871<ref name="tech">{{cite web |title=Budicki, Ferdinand |url=https://tehnika.lzmk.hr/budicki-ferdinand-2/ |website=Croatian Technical Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography]] |access-date=5 June 2022 |language=hr |date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220605051112/https://tehnika.lzmk.hr/budicki-ferdinand-2/|url-status=live|archive-date=5 June 2022|orig-date=10 November 2016}}</ref> in Zagreb to Marija (née Panian) and Ferdinand Budicki (Sr.). His parents were renowned craftspeople.

Having completed two grades of [[Realschule]], Budicki first trained for a [[locksmith]], then studied mechanics abroad. He assembled his own [[bicycle]] while living in Vienna. He subsequently used it in 1897 to travel throughout Europe and northern Africa, reportedly traversing {{convert|17323|km}}.<ref name="technical museum" /><ref name="polish newspaper">{{cite news | title=Na bicyklu po Europie | trans-title=On a bicycle across Europe| language=pl|author= | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/619448216/?clipping_id=124247385|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508161215/https://www.newspapers.com/image/619448216/?clipping_id=124247385|archive-date=8 May 2023|date=28 June 1897 | work=Dziennik Chicagoski |access-date=8 May 2023|location=Chicago, Illinois|url-status=live }}</ref>

==Family==
He married twice, first to Josephine Axmann (1877-1965) of [[Vienna]], with whom he had five children. They divorced in 1912. In his later years he remarried, to his former maid Pepica Bocivaušek, who cared little for his sporting legacy.<ref name="facebook excerpt" />

Their eldest daughter Greta lived with her mother in Vienna and married Harald Svenfelt, a cavalry officer in the Swedish army and co-owner of the [[Cloetta]] Ljungsbro chocolate factory.<ref name="chocolate">{{cite web|url=https://www.cloetta.se/om-cloetta/cloetta-i-ljungsbro/|title=Cloetta i Ljungsbro|trans-title=(History of) Cloetta in Ljungsbro|language=sv|access-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230407192323/https://www.cloetta.se/om-cloetta/cloetta-i-ljungsbro/|archive-date=7 April 2023 }}</ref><ref name="swedish portrait">{{cite web|url=https://portrattarkiv.se/details/YB0QHyfj0hAAAAAAAAA3Jg|title=Per Axel Harald Svenfelt on Swedish Portraits Archive|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230407192703/https://portrattarkiv.se/details/YB0QHyfj0hAAAAAAAAA3Jg|access-date=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|url-status=live }}</ref> Their children include [[dressage]] athlete [[Ulla Håkansson]].<ref name="olympic">{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/11363|title=Ulla Håkansson on Olympedia|access-date=1 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317205751/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/11363|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live }}</ref>

Their surviving son, Dr. Viktor Budicki (1905-1944) was a bacteriologist, trained in the USA and served in the military in 1927 in [[Varaždin]]. In [[WWII]], he was interned in the [[Stara Gradiška concentration camp]] by the [[Ustaše]], accused of hiding foreign citizens. He died in a 1944 camp [[typhoid]] epidemic, and was honourably buried in a marked grave for his medical service to camp detainees and Ustaše alike.<ref name="car book" /><ref name="facebook excerpt" /><ref name="holocaust record">{{cite web|archive-date=1 April 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230401220515/https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=7564882|title=Conflicting report of Viktor Budicki's poisoning by Ustasha on Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database|url=https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=7564882|url-status=live}}</ref> He operated a children's hospital in the camp, and disinfected the camp's wells with the help of Julij Hrženjak.<ref name="bacteriologist">{{ cite book|title=Konclogor na Savi|language=hr|trans-title=Concentration Camp on Sava|last1=Jakovljević|first1=Ilija|year=1999 |place=Zagreb|publication-date=1999|publisher=Konzor|isbn=9789536317561|pages=100–101 }}</ref><ref name="camp record 3">{{cite web|url=https://jadovno.com/logor-asenovac-bro-v-stara-gradishka/|title=Logor Jasenovac broj V – Stara Gradiška|language=Serbian|trans-title=Jasenovac camp number V - Stara Gradiška|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230407195918/https://jadovno.com/logor-asenovac-bro-v-stara-gradishka/|date=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|orig-date=9 October 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="camp record 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrvatski-fokus.hr/2022/03/38769/|title=Zbrinjavanje i zdravstvena skrb o djeci s Kozare u prihvatilištima 1942. godine|language=hr|trans-title=Care and health care of children from Kozare in shelters in 1942|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230407201328/https://www.hrvatski-fokus.hr/2022/03/38769/|date=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|orig-date=17 March 2022|website=Hrvatski Focus|url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="camp record 2">{{cite web|url=https://www.autograf.hr/tragedija-djece-s-kozare-istina-o-krvavoj-brutalnosti-ustasa/|title=Tragedija djece s Kozare – istina o krvavoj brutalnosti ustaša|language=hr|trans-title=The tragedy of the children from Kozara - the truth about the bloody brutality of the Ustasha|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230407201804/https://www.autograf.hr/tragedija-djece-s-kozare-istina-o-krvavoj-brutalnosti-ustasa/|date=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|orig-date=10 December 2018|website=autograf.hr|first1=Ivo|last1=Goldstein|url-status=live }}</ref> His Austrian-American wife, Margaret Juers Budicki, settled in [[Eugene, Oregon]] and worked as a field counselor for the Lane County Juvenile Department,<ref name="eugene 1">{{cite news|author=Tom Jaques|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-eugene-guard-margaret-j-budicki-co/124252204/|title=Reid Sends Counselors Back to Jobs|date=29 February 1960|work=The Eugene Guard|location=Eugene, Oregon, USA|access-date=8 May 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240317211841/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-eugene-guard-margaret-j-budicki-co/124252204/|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="eugene 2">{{cite news|author=|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/statesman-journal-margaret-j-budicki-c/124252092/|title=Nine Lane Juvenile Counselors Resign|date=17 February 1960|work=Statesman Journal|location=Eugene, Oregon, USA|access-date=8 May 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240317213723/https://www.newspapers.com/article/statesman-journal-margaret-j-budicki-c/124252092/|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="eugene 3">{{cite news|author=|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-eugene-guard-margaret-budicki-couns/124250195/|work=The Eugene Guard|location=Eugene, Oregon, USA|access-date=8 May 2023|date=17 February 1960|title=Resignation of Juvenile Aides On Advisory Council Agenda|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240317214026/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-eugene-guard-margaret-budicki-couns/124250195/|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> where she authored poetry in a book titled "Splinters" <ref name="splinters">{{cite book |last=Budicki |first=Margaret |date=1 January 1985 |title=Splinters |url=https://www.amazon.com/Splinters-Margaret-Budicki/dp/B0022MTC76 |location= |publisher=Crone's Own Press |page= |asin=B0022MTC76|ol=OL2650626M|edition=1st|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230909133023/https://www.amazon.com/Splinters-Margaret-Budicki/dp/B0022MTC76|archive-date=9 September 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> and contributed articles to the [[feminist]] magazine [[The Women's Press]].<ref name="feminist magazine">{{cite magazine|last=Budicki|first=Margaret|date=1980|title=Articles by Margaret J. Budicki|magazine=Women's Press|location=Eugene, Oregon, USA|jstor=community.28046954|url=https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=budicki&scope=eyJpZCI6ICIyNzk1NDAzNSIsICJwYWdlTmFtZSI6ICJXb21lbidzIFByZXNzIiwgInBhZ2VVcmwiOiAiL3NpdGUvcmV2ZWFsLWRpZ2l0YWwvaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQtdm9pY2VzL3dvbWVuc3ByZXNzLTI3OTU0MDM1LyIsICJ0eXBlIjogImNvbnRhaW5lciIsICJwb3J0YWxOYW1lIjogIlJldmVhbCBEaWdpdGFsIiwgInBvcnRhbFVybCI6ICIvc2l0ZS9yZXZlYWwtZGlnaXRhbC8ifQ%3D%3D|access-date=14 November 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240317214622/https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=budicki&scope=eyJpZCI6ICIyNzk1NDAzNSIsICJwYWdlTmFtZSI6ICJXb21lbidzIFByZXNzIiwgInBhZ2VVcmwiOiAiL3NpdGUvcmV2ZWFsLWRpZ2l0YWwvaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQtdm9pY2VzL3dvbWVuc3ByZXNzLTI3OTU0MDM1LyIsICJ0eXBlIjogImNvbnRhaW5lciIsICJwb3J0YWxOYW1lIjogIlJldmVhbCBEaWdpdGFsIiwgInBvcnRhbFVybCI6ICIvc2l0ZS9yZXZlYWwtZGlnaXRhbC8ifQ%3D%3D&so=rel|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

Their youngest daughter Jelena studied teaching and English at [[Newbold College]], then worked as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Adventist Church]] secretary and treasurer for the Sava Conference until 1930.<ref name="sda yearbook">{{cite web |title=Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook, 1 January 1930|page=260|url=https://adventistdigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/adl:426295|access-date=18 March 2024|archive-date=18 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318002644/https://adventistdigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/adl:426295/datastream/PDF/view|url-status=live|publisher=[[Review and Herald Publishing Association]]|quote=J. Budicki is listed as Secretary and Treasurer of the Sava Conference, Djure Dezelica, Prilaz 77, Zagreb, Jugoslavia.}}</ref> She married Pastor Fred Edwards, an English missionary to [[Ghana]] and teacher at the [[Seventh-day Adventist education|Adventist school]] in [[Agona]], [[Ashanti Region|Ashanti]].<ref name="ghana">{{cite web|url=http://www.firstghana.org/heritage|title=Historical Dateline of Adventism in Ghana|date=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230407202950/http://www.firstghana.org/heritage|url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="fred obituary">{{cite magazine|author=|title=Obituary of Pastor Fred Edwards|date=21 June 1985|magazine=The Messenger|volume=90|number=12/13|url=https://www.andrews.edu/library/car/cardigital/Periodicals/Messenger_British_Union/1985/1985_12_13.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122004820/https://www.andrews.edu/library/car/cardigital/Periodicals/Messenger_British_Union/1985/1985_12_13.pdf|archive-date=22 November 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> Their three children are dentist and missionary to the [[Caribbean]] Thomas Siegfried Ferdinand Edwards (1931-2013),<ref name="sieg">{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Thomas-Siegfried-Ferdinand-Edwards/6000000002615255515|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230413221759/https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Thomas-Siegfried-Ferdinand-Edwards/6000000002615255515|archive-date=13 April 2023|date=13 April 2023|orig-date=7 December 2010|title=TSF 'Sieg' Edwards autobiography on Geni.com}}</ref> youth pastor and author Ronald Valerius Edwards (1932-2022)<ref name="ron">{{cite web|url=https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-10-06/death-of-ronald-valerius-edwards/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230401205300/https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-10-06/death-of-ronald-valerius-edwards/|archive-date=1 April 2023|title=Obituary for Pr. Ronald V. Edwards|date=6 October 2022|first1=Jacques|last1=Venter|url-status=live}}</ref> and Margaret Anthony.

Ferdinand speculated in family letters that the "unique" surname Budicki is a corruption of the Polish "Budiczky".

==Career==
[[File:HTE budicki ferdinand in car.jpg|thumb|220px|right|alt=Ferdinand Budicki, automobile pioneer, seated in his car, ca. 1920s|Ferdinand Budicki, automobile pioneer, seated in his car, ca. 1920s? ''(Photo courtesy of Croatian Technical Encyclopedia)'']]

In 1901, Budicki purchased a used car from {{ill|Opel & Beyschlag|de|Opel & Beyschlag}} in Vienna for 4,000 [[Austro-Hungarian crown]]s. The car had single-cylinder {{convert|3.5|HP|lk=in}} motor and could reach a speed of {{cvt|20|km/h}}. Its fuel consumption was {{cvt|10|L/100 km}}.<ref name="tech"/> Budicki was taught how to drive by Otto Beyschlag and received extra training in the form of observing an electric [[tram]] driver at work.<ref name="technical museum 2" /> He subsequently drove the car from Vienna to Zagreb. The following year, he travelled the same route on a [[Laurin & Klement]] motorcycle. This took him 13 hours and 45 minutes; his progress was reported live at Zagreb's [[Ban Jelačić Square]].<ref name="tech" />

Whether he was the first car driver in Zagreb is disputed, as an ''[[Obzor (magazine)|Obzor]]'' article states that Count [[Marko Bombelles]] from [[Varaždin]] drove to Zagreb in a [[Benz & Cie.]] car on 17 August 1899.<ref name="technical museum 2" /><ref name="vinica famous">{{cite web|title=Znameniti Viničanci|trans-title=Famous people from Vinica|url=http://www.vinica.hr/index.php/hr/povijest/osobe|publisher=[[Vinica, Varaždin County|Municipality of Vinica]]|accessdate=12 August 2015|language=hr|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100139/http://www.vinica.hr/index.php/hr/povijest/osobe|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="opel 111 years">{{cite web|title=111 godina Opela u Hrvatskoj|trans-title=111 years of Opel in Croatia|url=http://www.opel.hr/content/dam/Opel/Europe/croatia/nscwebsite/hr/02_Offers_Services/01_CurrentOffers/01_VehiclesOffers_Promotion/2012/04/Opel_2_150y.pdf|publisher=[[Opel]]|accessdate=13 August 2015|language=hr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103257/http://www.opel.hr/content/dam/Opel/Europe/croatia/nscwebsite/hr/02_Offers_Services/01_CurrentOffers/01_VehiclesOffers_Promotion/2012/04/Opel_2_150y.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:HTE budicki ferdinand shop zagreb 1910.jpg|220px|thumb|left|alt=F. Budicki's car, two-wheeler and sewing machine shop at 2 Gundulićeva Street, Zagreb, 1910|F. Budicki's car, two-wheeler and sewing machine shop at 2 Gundulićeva Street, Zagreb, 1910. ''(Photo courtesy of Croatian Technical Encyclopedia)'']] On 28 August 1901, Budicki received his [[driving licence]] in Vienna.<ref name="technical museum" /> In 1904, he started giving driving lessons.<ref name="tech" /> In 1910 Zagreb started to issue its own driving licences. Budicki's license was not recognised, so he took a driving examination on 27 July 1910 and received the licence with serial number 1.<ref name="technical museum" /> However, as none of the examination committee members knew how to drive, Budicki had to teach them before the examination.<ref name="events & performances">{{cite journal|editor1-last=Leko|editor1-first=Petra|title=Zagreb kroz stoljeća|trans-title=Zagreb through the centuries|journal=Program priredaba [Events & Performances]|issue=July/August 2015|page=8|publisher=Zagreb Tourist Board|location=Zagreb, Croatia|language=hr|issn=1333-6584}}</ref> He subsequently opened Zagreb's first driving school.<ref name="tech" /> Budicki was also the first to receive a [[traffic ticket]] for speeding on 6 June 1901 in Mavrova Street (today [[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk|Masaryk]] Street).<ref name="technical museum 2">{{cite web|title=Dolazak prvog automobila u Zagreb|trans-title=Arrival of the first automobile in Zagreb|url=http://www.tehnicki-muzej.hr/hr/kalendar/dolazak-prvog-automobila-u-zagreb,110.html?t=p|publisher=[[Technical Museum, Zagreb]]|accessdate=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305212726/http://www.tehnicki-muzej.hr/hr/kalendar/dolazak-prvog-automobila-u-zagreb,110.html?t=p|archive-date=5 March 2016|language=hr}}</ref> In 1905 he flew a [[hot air balloon]] from Zagreb to nearby [[Gornja Stubica]] and [[Mraclin]], taking the first [[aerial photos]] of Zagreb,<ref name="aerial photo">{{cite web|url=https://www.otk-ferdinandbudicki.hr/index.php/item/download/4_5e7ad4d0848411cf1a1d46185d91ca33|title=ROADS OF FERDINAND BUDICKI (Zagreb sightseeing tour)|date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419164456/https://www.otk-ferdinandbudicki.hr/index.php/item/download/4_5e7ad4d0848411cf1a1d46185d91ca33|archive-date=19 April 2022 }}</ref> while the next year he completed a successful flight from Zagreb to the Adriatic island of [[Krk]].<ref name="tech" />

Budicki entered the business of new vehicles by opening a bicycle and sewing machine shop called ''K touristu'' ("At the Tourist's") at 24 Mavrova Street in 1899. In the early 1900s, the shop began selling cars and motorcycles as well.<ref name="technical museum" /> On 1 June 1906, Budicki founded the first Croatian Automobile Society, which opened with 14 members.<ref name="technical museum 2" /> From 1910 to 1928 he was the general distributor for [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] in the [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]]. In 1929, he started a [[taxicab]] company and a [[bus]] line from Zagreb to [[Sv. Ivan Zelina]]. Later that year he had to exit the automobile business due to the [[stock market crash of 1929]], retaining only a car repair shop.<ref name="technical museum" />

==Death==
Budicki died in Zagreb on 25 June 1951 at the age of 80.<ref name="tech" /><ref name="death date" /> He was buried in [[Mirogoj Cemetery]], Zagreb, but his remains were transferred to the 12th Mirogoj Cemetery ossuary due to lack of upkeep.<ref name="car book">{{cite book|title=BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO (Povijest automobilizma u Hrvatskoj 1898. -1945.)|trans-title=RUN PEOPLE - A CAR IS COMING (A history of motoring in Croatia 1898-1945)|url=https://www.otk-ferdinandbudicki.hr/index.php/knjiga|publisher=Projekt Ferdinand Budicki|language=Croatian|location=Zagreb|date=14 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401192812/https://www.otk-ferdinandbudicki.hr/images/Docs/|archive-date=1 April 2023|last1=Valjak|first1=Valentino}}</ref><ref name="facebook excerpt">{{cite web|title=FERDINAND BUDICKI - OD IDOLA ZAGREPČANA DO ZABORAVLJENOG TRAGIČARA; Iz monografije BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO (Povijest automobilizma u Hrvatskoj 1898. -1945.)|trans-title=FERDINAND BUDICKI - FROM THE IDOL OF ZAGREB TO THE FORGOTTEN TRAGIC; Facebook excerpt from the monograph: RUN PEOPLE - A CAR IS COMING (A history of motoring in Croatia 1898-1945)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401175921/https://www.facebook.com/327448123966593/posts/httpsmfacebookcomstoryphpstory_fbid10155038468087375id541812374/2206000209444699/|archive-date=1 April 2023|last1=Valjak|first1=Valentino|website=[[Facebook]] |date=29 January 2017|url-status=dead|url=https://www.facebook.com/327448123966593/posts/httpsmfacebookcomstoryphpstory_fbid10155038468087375id541812374/2206000209444699/}}</ref> He was born a [[Roman Catholic]] and became a [[Seventh-Day Adventist]] in his later years.<ref name="religion">{{cite web|title=Najpoznatiji adventist u Hrvatskoj - Ferdinand Budicki, zaštitno ime novog muzeja u Zagrebu|trans-title=The most famous Adventist in Croatia - Ferdinand Budicki, the trademark name of the new museum in Zagreb|url=https://adventisti.hr/najpoznatiji-adventist-u-hrvatskoj-ferdinand-budicki-zastitno-ime-novog-muzeja-u-zagrebu/|date=7 March 2013|access-date=17 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726192319/http://adventisti.hr/najpoznatiji-adventist-u-hrvatskoj-ferdinand-budicki-zastitno-ime-novog-muzeja-u-zagrebu/|archive-date=26 July 2013|language=hr|author=Darko Kovačević|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Legacy==
On 4 July 2013, the [[Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum]] was opened in Zagreb, honouring Budicki's pioneering legacy in its name.<ref name="museum opening">{{cite web|title=Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki|trans-title=Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum|url=http://vijesti.hrt.hr/215133/muzej-automobila-ferdinand-budicki|publisher=[[Croatian Radiotelevision]]|accessdate=12 August 2015|language=hr|date=3 July 2013|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125151255/https://vijesti.hrt.hr/215133/muzej-automobila-ferdinand-budicki|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="museum article">{{cite web|title=Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki|url=https://tehnika.lzmk.hr/muzej-automobila-ferdinand-budicki/|website=Croatian Technical Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography]] |language=hr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317211036/https://tehnika.lzmk.hr/muzej-automobila-ferdinand-budicki/|archive-date=17 March 2024|orig-date=19 February 2018|date=19 November 2020|url-status=live|access-date=17 March 2024}}</ref> In 2018 the museum moved to Westgate Shopping City, [[Zaprešić]],<ref name="new location">{{cite web|url=https://www.inyourpocket.com/zagreb/ferdinand-budicki-automobile-museum_168064v|date=8 April 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230408163317/https://www.inyourpocket.com/zagreb/ferdinand-budicki-automobile-museum_168064v|archive-date=8 April 2023|title=Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum (In Your Pocket: Essential City Guides)}}</ref> due to a lack of public funding and disagreements between mayor [[Milan Bandić]] and manager Valentino Valjak.<ref name="museum closed 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.zagreb.info/aktualno/zg/foto-grad-i-drzava-okrenuli-im-leda-zatvara-se-muzej-automobila-ferdinand-budicki/170460/|title=(FOTO) Grad i država okrenuli im leđa: Zatvara se Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki - Zagreb.info|language=hr|trans-title=(PHOTO) City and state turn their backs on them: Ferdinand Budicki Car Museum closes - Zagreb.info|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402010310/https://www.zagreb.info/aktualno/zg/foto-grad-i-drzava-okrenuli-im-leda-zatvara-se-muzej-automobila-ferdinand-budicki/170460/|archive-date=2 April 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="museum closed 2">{{cite web|url=https://www.total-croatia-news.com/zagreb-blog/24571-ferdinand-budicki-automobile-museum-in-zagreb-closing-down-at-the-end-of-february|title=Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum in Zagreb Closing Down at the End of February?|first1=Iva|last1=Tatić|date=18 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402010639/https://www.total-croatia-news.com/zagreb-blog/24571-ferdinand-budicki-automobile-museum-in-zagreb-closing-down-at-the-end-of-february|archive-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> The {{ill|Varaždin City Museum|hr|Gradski muzej Varaždin}} hosts Budicki's cycling medals.<ref name="tech" />

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Valjak has written extensively about Budicki in his book ''BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO (Povijest automobilizma u Hrvatskoj 1898. -1945.) [RUN PEOPLE - A CAR IS COMING (A history of motoring in Croatia 1898-1945)''. A documentary film by the same name has also been produced in Croatian, with an English interview of grandson Ronald V. Edwards.<ref name="documentary">{{cite AV media|id=O6cDxxdbe_w|title=Dokumentarni film BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO & Povijest automoblizma u Hrvatskoj 1898. -1945.|trans-title=Documentary film BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO & History of motoring in Croatia 1898 - 1945.|date=30 September 2019|language=hr|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cDxxdbe_w|access-date=17 March 2024|people= Valjak, Valentino (director); Edwards, Ronald Valerius (grandson of Ferdinand Budicki, interviewee)|location=Zagreb, Croatia|type=YouTube documentary|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240317225108/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cDxxdbe_w|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

In Zagreb, there is a Ferdinand Budicki Street in the neighbourhood of [[Staglišće]].<ref name="gmaps">{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ul.+Ferdinanda+Budickog,+10110,+Zagreb,+Croatia/@45.7902512,15.9204086,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x4765d6ac50023f6f:0x909f913291a02b05!8m2!3d45.7902512!4d15.9225973!16s%2Fg%2F119x1vys2?coh=164777&entry=tt|title=
Ulica Ferdinanda Budickog, 10110, Zagreb, Croatia|access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="hrmaps">{{cite map|url=https://www.auto-karta-hrvatske.com/zagreb/ulica-ferdinanda-budickog/|title=Ulica Ferdinanda Budickog, 10110, Zagreb, Croatia|access-date=8 April 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230408160918/https://www.auto-karta-hrvatske.com/zagreb/ulica-ferdinanda-budickog/|archive-date=8 April 2023|url-status=live }}</ref>

Budicki is also remembered as the founder of [[Zagreb Fair]] and {{Interlanguage link|Croatian Sports Alliance|hr|3=Hrvatski športski savez}}.<ref name=autoiq>{{cite journal|last1=Hrženjak|first1=Dolores|title=Ferdin duh oživio među oldtimerima|trans-title=Ferdo's spirit revived by the oldtimers|journal=AutoIQ|date=12 February 2013|issue=20|pages=17, 16–19|url=http://issuu.com/autoiq/docs/autoiqmagazin20|accessdate=12 August 2015|publisher=BIBIP Zagreb|location=Zagreb|language=hr|issn=1848-5820|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240317000000/http://issuu.com/autoiq/docs/autoiqmagazin20|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}} [https://archive.org/details/auto-iq-magazin-20.-broj.-20130212 Alt URL]</ref>

His descendants live in the [[United Kingdom]], United States,
[[Sweden]], [[Croatia]], and [[Spain]].<ref name="family tree">{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Ferdinand-Budicki/6000000002623547773|date=1 April 2023|title=Family tree on Geni.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317220703/https://www.geni.com/people/Ferdinand-Budicki-II/6000000193334477960|archive-date=17 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|last1=Staklarević|first1=Neda|title=Dolazak prvog automobila u Zagreb|trans-title=The arrival of the first car in Zagreb|date=2008|publisher=[[Technical Museum, Zagreb]]|location=Zagreb, Croatia|language=hr}}
*{{cite book|title=BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO (Povijest automobilizma u Hrvatskoj 1898. -1945.)|trans-title=RUN PEOPLE - A CAR IS COMING (A history of motoring in Croatia 1898-1945)|url=https://www.otk-ferdinandbudicki.hr/index.php/knjiga|publisher=Projekt Ferdinand Budicki|language=Croatian|location=Zagreb|date=14 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401192812/https://www.otk-ferdinandbudicki.hr/images/Docs/|archive-date=1 April 2023|last1=Valjak|first1=Valentino}}
*{{ cite book|title=Konclogor na Savi|language=hr|trans-title=Concentration Camp on Sava|last1=Jakovljević|first1=Ilija|year=1999 |place=Zagreb|publication-date=1999|publisher=Konzor|isbn=9789536317561|pages=100–101 }} ''Contains the story of Dr. Viktor Budicki.''

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