Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's creation of the first petrol-powered car, the Benz

Patent Motorwagen, financed by Bertha Benz[2] and patented in January 1886,[3] and Gottlieb
Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a stagecoach by the addition of a petrol
engine later that year. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler-Motoren-
Gesellschaft. (Daimler Motors Corporation).
Emil Jellinek, an Austrian automobile entrepreneur who worked with DMG created the trademark in
1902, naming the 1901 Mercedes 35 hp after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek. The first Mercedes-
Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz's and Gottlieb
Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company.[3][4] On 28 June 1926, Mercedes Benz was
formed with the merger of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler's two companies.
Gottlieb Daimler was born on 17 March 1834 in Schorndorf. After training as a gunsmith and working
in France, he attended the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart from 1857 to 1859. After completing
various technical activities in France and England, he started work as a draftsman in Geislingen in
1862. At the end of 1863, he was appointed workshop inspector in a machine tool factory in
Reutlingen, where he met Wilhelm Maybach in 1865.[citation needed]
Throughout the 1930s, Mercedes-Benz produced the 770 model, a car that was popular during
Germany's Nazi period. Adolf Hitler was known to have driven these cars during his time in power,
with bulletproof windshields.[5] Most of the surviving models have been sold at auctions to private
buyers. One of them is currently on display at the War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. The
pontiff's Popemobile has often been sourced from Mercedes-Benz.[6] In 1944, 46,000 forced laborers
were used in Daimler-Benz's factories to bolster Nazi war efforts. The company later paid $12 million
in reparations to the laborers' families.[7] Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and
safety innovations that later became common in other vehicles.[8] Mercedes-Benz is one of the best-
known and established automotive brands in the world.
For information relating to the famous three-pointed star, see under the title Daimler-Motoren-
Gesellschaft including the merger into Daimler-Benz.