It is a most remarkable coincidence that two people, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, simultaneously — and successfully — worked on automotive locomotion in the eighties of the 19th century, and not even that far away from each other. These two men had pursued completely different careers and had very different professional and educational backgrounds. And yet they did create one and the same thing: they invented the automobile, every one of them on his own and without knowing about the other's activities. They only met — briefly — at a later stage.

With her legendary long-distance journey, Bertha Benz ensured the breakthrough of the automobile; another name inseparably linked with the successful history of our company is that of Emil Jellinek.

And yet it is unlikely that these courageous pioneers had any idea of the impact their visions would once have.