Mercedes-Benz is a global automobile manufacturer and a division of the German company Daimler AG. The brand is known for luxury vehicles, buses, coaches and trucks. Headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The name first appeared in 1926 under Daimler-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft Mercedes 1901 and the 1886 Benz-Benz Benz-Benz Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first gasoline automobile. The motto of the brand is "the best or nothing".
History
Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to the creation of Karl Benz of the first gasoline-powered car, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, funded by Bertha Benz and patented in January 1886, and Gottlieb Daimler and the conversion of engineer Wilhelm Maybach of an expedition by addition Of a Petrol Engine later that year. The Mercedes car was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. (Daimler Motors Corporation).
Emil Jellinek, Austrian automobile entrepreneur who worked with DMG, created the brand in 1902, naming the 1901 Mercedes of 35 horsepower after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek. The first Mercedes-Benz brand vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of the companies Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler into the Daimler-Benz company. On June 28, 1926, Mercedes Benz was formed with the merger of Karl Benz and the two companies of Gottlieb Daimler.
Gottlieb Daimler was born on March 17, 1834 in Schorndorf. After training as a gunsmith and working in France, he attended the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart from 1857 to 1859. After completing several technical activities in France and England, he began working as a draftsman in Geislingen in 1862. At the end of 1863, he was appointed Inspector of a workshop in a machine-tool factory in Reutlingen, where he met Wilhelm Maybach in 1865.
During the 1930s, Mercedes-Benz produced the model 770, a car that was popular during the Nazi period of Germany. Adolf Hitler was known to have driven these cars during his time in power, with bulletproof windshields. Most surviving models have been sold at auctions to private buyers. One of them is currently exhibited at the War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. The Pontiff's Popemobile has often been obtained from Mercedes-Benz. In 1944, 46,000 forced labourers were used in Daimler-Benz factories to reinforce the Nazi war effort. Subsequently, the company paid $ 12 million in reparations to workers' families. Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and safety innovations that later have become common in other vehicles. Mercedes-Benz is one of the most well known and established automotive brands in the world. For information related to the famous three-pronged star, see under the title Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft including the merger in Daimler-Benz.