And became DaimlerChrysler until August 2007, when Chrysler was sold off to Cerberus Capital Management
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Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, was an automobile entrepreneur of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG), responsible in 1900 for commissioning the first modern automobile, the Mercedes 35hp. Jellinek created the Mercedes trademark in 1902, naming it in honor of his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek.
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business · German automobile entrepreneur (1853–1918) · entrepreneur · diplomat · also Emil Jellinek, Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, Jellinek
Born 6 April 1853 · Died 21 January 1918 · Q78589
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1945· 1 entry
The villa was destroyed and only the garage as well as two rooms were left
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1926· 1 entry
Amid the German post-war crisis, DMG merged with Benz to become the Daimler-Benz company with their automobiles called Mercedes-Benz
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1918· 1 entry
Died 1918-01-21.
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1917· 1 entry
Ended up in Geneva, in neutral Switzerland, where Emil Jellinek was temporarily arrested again
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1914· 1 entry
The Austrian government charged Jellinek for taxes on his French properties
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1909· 1 entry
When in Monte Carlo, Jellinek finally severed his commercial activities to concentrate on his consular work but did purchase some casinos in the region
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1908· 1 entry
Permanently cancelled Jellinek's original contract
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1902· 2 entries
Naming it in honor of his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek
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On 23 June, the company decided to use the Mercedes name as the trademark for its entire automobile production and officially registered it on 26 September
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1901· 1 entry
Went on to have a string of racing successes
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1900· 2 entries
For commissioning the first modern automobile, the Mercedes 35hp
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Jellinek-Mercedes purchased several properties including:
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1899· 3 entries
Jellinek entered his cars in all of them
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Married Madelaine Henriette Engler (Anaise Jellinek), and had four more children: Alain Didier, Guy, Rene and Andree (Maya)
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DMG commissioned some engineers including Wilhelm Bauer, Wilhelm Werner and Hermann Braun, to investigate the possibility of using the Phoenix for sporting events as at that time car racing was the best way of generating
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1898· 1 entry
Wrote to DMG requesting six more cars and to become a DMG main agent and distributor
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1896· 1 entry
To find out more about the company, its factory, and the designers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
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1894· 1 entry
When staying at Stuttgart's former Hermann Hotel
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1891· 1 entry
Jellinek built a large mansion, adding to it progressively from 1909 until it had 50 rooms, 8 bathrooms and 23 toilets
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1884· 1 entry
Jellinek joined the insurance company full-time and moved with the family to Baden bei Wien, Austria, where they lived in the house of a wine dealer named Hanni
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1881· 1 entry
At the age of 28 to open one of its branch offices
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1874· 1 entry
Jellinek was conscripted for military service in Vienna, but was declared unfit
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1870· 1 entry
When he was 17, his parents found him a job as a clerk in a Moravian railway company, Rot-Koestelec North-Western
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-04-06.
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