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Bertha Benz

* 1849 Pforzheim
+ 1944 Ladenburg


   

Berta
                Benz

Bertha Benz 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.


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