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Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive an internal-combustion-engined automobile over a long distance, field testing the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, inventing brake lining and solving several practical issues during the journey of 105 km. In doing so, she brought…
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business · German automobile pioneer, with husband Carl Benz · businessperson · racing automobile driver · inventor · entrepreneur · also Bertha Benz, Cäcilie Bertha Ringer, Benz
Born 3 May 1849 · Died 5 May 1944 · Q77117
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2019· 1 entry
The modern Daimler company commissioned a four-minute advertisement dramatizing portions of Bertha Benz’ 1888 journey
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2016· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame, 42 years after her husband was inducted
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2011· 1 entry
A dramatized television movie about the life of Carl and Bertha Benz was made named Carl & Bertha, which premiered on 11 May and was aired by Das Erste on 23 May
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2008· 1 entry
The Bertha Benz Memorial Route was officially approved as a route of the industrial heritage of humankind, because it follows Bertha Benz's path during the world's first long-distance journey by automobile in 1888
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1944· 1 entry
Died 1944-05-05.
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1933· 1 entry
84-year-old Bertha Benz is said to have greeted Adolf Hitler as the "savior of Germans"
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1929· 1 entry
With the beginning of the Great Depression
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1925· 1 entry
Karl Benz wrote the following in his memoirs: "Only one person remained with me in the small ship of life when it seemed destined to sink
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1924· 2 entries
“Only one person remained with me in the small ship of life when it seemed destined to sink. That was my wife. Bravely and resolutely she set the new sails of hope.”
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After years of German inflation 1914 to 1923
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1906· 1 entry
The family moved to Ladenburg, where Karl, Bertha, and sons Eugen and Richard started another solely family-held automobile business, named Benz Sons (Benz Söhne), which remained family-owned
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1888· 1 entry
Career landmark: road trip.
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1870· 1 entry
Two years before her marriage, she used part of her dowry to invest in his failing iron construction company
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1849· 1 entry
Born 1849-05-03.
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