The pontiff's Popemobile has often been sourced from Mercedes-Benz. One of the cars is currently on display at the War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Most of the currently surviving 770 models were sold at auctions to private buyers. Adolf Hitler was known to have driven in a model of this car during his time in power, with modified custom bulletproof windshields. Throughout the 1930s, Mercedes-Benz produced the 770 model, a car that was notably popular throughout Germany's Nazi period. At the end of 1863, he was appointed workshop inspector at a machine-tool factory in Reutlingen, where he met Wilhelm Maybach in 1865. After completing various technical activities in France and England, he started working as a draftsman in Geislingen in 1862. After training as a gunsmith and working in France, he attended the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart from 1857 to 1859. Gottlieb Daimler was born on 17 March 1834 in Schorndorf. Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) - founder of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft The first Mercedes-Benz branded vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company on 28 June of the same year. In 1901, the name 'Mercedes' was re-registered by DMG worldwide as a protected trademark. Many consider that race the birth of Mercedes-Benz as a brand. At the Nice race he attended in 1899, Jellinek drove under the pseudonym 'Monsieur Mercédès'. His customers included the Rothschild family and other wealthy clients, but as early as 1901, he was selling Mercedes cars in the ' New World' as well, including to billionaires Rockefeller, Astor, Morgan, and Taylor. At the time, it was a meeting place for the haute volée of France and Europe, especially in winter. Jellinek was a businessman and marketing strategist who promoted 'horseless' Daimler automobiles among the highest circles of society. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG).Įmil Jellinek-Mercedes, a Jewish-Austrian automobile entrepreneur who worked with DMG, registered the trademark in 1902, naming the 1901 Mercedes 35 hp after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek.

Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's first internal combustion engine in a car, seen in the Benz Patent Motorwagen – financed by Bertha Benz's dowry and patented in January 1886 – and Gottlieb Daimler and their engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a stagecoach, with the addition of a petrol engine, introduced later that year. See also: List of companies involved in the Holocaust and Diesel emissions scandal Karl Benz (1844–1929) made the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile. The slogan for the brand is 'the best or nothing'. The brand's origins lie in Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's 1901 Mercedes and Carl Benz's 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first internal combustion engine in a self-propelled automobile.

In 2018, Mercedes-Benz was the largest brand of premium vehicles in the world, having sold 2.31 million passenger cars.

From November 2019 onwards, Mercedes-Benz-badged heavy commercial vehicles (trucks and buses) are managed by Daimler Truck, a former part of the Mercedes-Benz Group turned into an independent company in late 2021. Mercedes-Benz AG produces consumer luxury vehicles and commercial vehicles badged as Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz AG (a Mercedes-Benz Group subsidiary established in 2019) is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Mercedes-Benz ( German pronunciation: ( listen)), commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926.

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