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Bertha Benz

1849 - 1944

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Bertha Benz (German: [ˈbɛʁta ˈbɛnts] ; née Cäcilie Bertha Ringer; 3 May 1849 – 5 May 1944) 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 (65 miles). In doing so, she brought the Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention and got their company its first sales. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bertha Benz is the 40th most popular businessperson (up from 95th in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 906th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Businessperson.

Bertha Benz is most famous for being the first person to drive an automobile.

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Among businesspeople, Bertha Benz ranks 40 out of 847. Before her are Eddie Jordan, Margaret Hamilton, Linda McMahon, Jules Rimet, Colonel Sanders, and Muhammad Yunus. After her are Robert Kiyosaki, Frank Williams, Carlos Slim, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Philip Kotler, and David Rockefeller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Bertha Benz ranks 3. Before her are Ivan Pavlov, and August Strindberg. After her are Édouard-Henri Avril, August von Mackensen, Muhammad Abduh, Blanche Monnier, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, Felix Klein, Alfred von Tirpitz, and W. T. Stead. Among people deceased in 1944, Bertha Benz ranks 16. Before her are Charles Glover Barkla, Abdulmejid II, Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Hilma af Klint, and Reza Shah. After her are Lou Henry Hoover, Alexis Carrel, Ludwig Beck, Thomas Midgley Jr., Galeazzo Ciano, and Erwin von Witzleben.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bertha Benz ranks 322 out of 7,253. Before her are Baldur von Schirach (1907), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), and Anton Drexler (1884). After her are Katharina von Bora (1498), Richard Dedekind (1831), Carl Bosch (1874), Erich Hartmann (1922), Carl Zeiss (1816), and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Bertha Benz ranks 3. Before her are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), and Ludwig Erhard (1897). After her are Adolf Dassler (1900), Levi Strauss (1829), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Otto Frank (1889), Robert Bosch (1861), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Paul Reuter (1816), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).

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