Bertha Benz
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- Surname: Benz
- First name: Cäcilie Bertha
- Date of birth: 03.05.1849
- Date of death: 05.05.1944
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Bertha Benz plays a key role in the development of the automobile. She fully supports her husband Carl Benz and, just like him, she strongly believes in the future of the automobile. During the economically critical first years she uses her dowry to safe the first company. In August 1888 and without further ado, Bertha Benz drives the Benz-patented motorcar from Mannheim to Pforzheim. She indeed manages to arrive there with her two sons Eugen and Richard. The framework conditions of this world’s first long-distance trip in an automobile – such as petrol supply from the chemist’s – are legendary and went down in the annals of automobile history. Thus, Bertha Benz and her sons play a key role in the triumph of petrol-driven automobiles.
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press kit 1969/1978/1979/1980/1982/1986
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Excursion in 1895 (from Weinheim to Schrießheim along the Bergstraße). On the move in the small Benz "Velo" (right) - Benz's daughters Klara (at the wheel) and Thilde. At the wheel of the Benz Patent Motor Car "Phaeton" is Benz's son Richard. At the time he was doing military service, hence the uniform. The other passengers are relatives of the Benz family.
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