May 24 2015
Karl Friedrich Benz (1844 – 1929)
Karl Friedrich Benz (25th November 1844 – 4th April 1929) Karl Benz was born as Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, on November 25, 1844 in Mühlburg, (now a part of Karlsruhe, Baden) Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz. They got married at St. Stephan’s Catholic Church on November 16, 1845 and moved to 13 […]
May 25 2015
Bertha Benz (1849 – 1944)
Bertha Benz (maiden name Ringer) May 3, 1849 – May 5, 1944 Bertha Ringer was born in 1849 in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden. She was the daughter of a wealthy family from the southwestern German town of Pforzheim. Not too many things are known until 1871 when she became the fiancee of Karl Benz. During the same […]
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