Karl Benz, German Engineer

Karl Benz, German Engineer

Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844 - April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine, and together with Bertha Benz, pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz received a patent for his work first, and, subsequently patented all the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in an automobile. In 1879, his first engine patent was granted to him, and in 1886, Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile. In 1926, Benz & Cie. and DMG merged as the Daimler-Benz company. A new logo was created, consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's motto: "engines for land, air, and water") surrounded by traditional laurels from the Benz logo, and the brand of all of its automobiles was labeled Mercedes Benz. Benz was a member of the new Daimler Benz board of management for the remainder of his life. He died in 1929 at the age of 84 from a bronchial inflammation. No photographer credited, undated.

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