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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bertha Benz has received more than 1,267,963 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Bertha Benz is the 95th most popular businessperson, the 906th most popular biography from Germany (down from 853rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Businessperson.

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

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  • 4.79

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  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Bertha Benz ranks 95 out of 847. Before her are Ambroise Vollard, Gianni Infantino, Paul Reuter, Paul Allen, Gordon Moore, and Eusebi Güell. After her are Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Michele Ferrero, Ferdinand Piëch, Charlie Munger, and Louis Chevrolet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Bertha Benz ranks 12. Before her are Felix Klein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, John William Waterhouse, Alfred von Tirpitz, and Sergei Witte. After her are Nogi Maresuke, John Ambrose Fleming, Blanche Monnier, Eva Gonzalès, Ellen Key, and Max Nordau. Among people deceased in 1944, Bertha Benz ranks 50. Before her are Emilio De Bono, Kasturba Gandhi, Eduard Dietl, Hans-Valentin Hube, Mildred Harris, and Abbas II of Egypt. After her are Otto von Below, Bronislav Kaminski, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bertha Benz ranks 906 out of 7,253. Before her are Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), Rainer Weiss (1932), Gershom Scholem (1897), and Kurt Zeitzler (1895). After her are Günter Netzer (1944), Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), Max Delbrück (1906), Ernst Chain (1906), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Bertha Benz ranks 11. Before her are Otto Frank (1889), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Robert Bosch (1861), and Paul Reuter (1816). After her are Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), Uli Hoeneß (1952), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), and Melitta Bentz (1873).

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