Volkswagen history through advertising - Telegraph Volkswagen archivist Dr Ulrike Gutzmann presented the keynote address "Milestones and Magic - The History of Volkswagen" at the Brand Licensing Europe event at Olympia on October 16. Here is a selection of images associated with her speech, covering Volkswagen's output from 1953 to 2013. This poster from 1956 is captioned Seine bessere Hälfte (translated as His Better Half)