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Bertha Benz at age 18, c. 1867 Cäcilie Bertha Ringer was born on 3 May 1849 to a wealthy carpenter family in Pforzheim.She was the third of nine children. Her father, Karl Friedrich Ringer, a master builder and carpenter, and her 20 year younger mother, Auguste Friedrich, were wealthy individuals who invested heavily in their children's educations.
On January 25, 2011, Deutsche Welle (DW-TV) broadcast worldwide in its series Made in Germany a TV documentary on the invention of the automobile by Karl Benz, highlighting the very important role of his wife Bertha Benz. The report was not only on the history of the automobile, but took a look at its future as well, as shown by the Bertha Benz ...
Benz in 1869 at the age of 25. Carl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant on 25 November 1844 in Mühlburg, now a borough of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, which is part of modern Germany.
Bertha Benz, Karl's wife, whose dowry was said to have made a portion of contribution to finance the development of the Patent-Motorwagen, [18] was aware of the need for publicity. She took the Patent-Motorwagen No. 3 and drove it on the first long-distance internal combustion automobile road trip to demonstrate its feasibility.
Carl Lawrence Betz [1] (March 9, 1921 – January 18, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera Love of Life ; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed 's television husband, Dr. Alex Stone, from 1958 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show .
She first wrote "Typisch Ossi – Typisch Wessi", then "Kreuzweise deutsch", as well as the first biography of Bertha Benz, the wife of car inventor Carl Benz and the world's first female long-distance driver, entitled "Mein Traum ist länger als die Nacht".
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Carl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the automobile, husband of Bertha, lived in Ladenburg from 1906 until his death; Bertha Benz, (1849–1944), first person to drive an automobile over a long distance, wife of Karl, lived in Ladenburg