Mercedes Mercedes: who was the girl in whose honour he named the car

September 16 marks 127 years since the birth of Mercedes Jellinek, the most famous women whose name is associated with cars. Despite the fact that she never was fond of automobiles, and is not interested in cars, it was named after the famous "Mercedes". The website publishes an article by the online journal "Cultural studies" about who was Mercedes Jellinek and why Mercedes was named after it it.



Photo source: Kulturologia.Guadiana Manuela Ramona Jellinek was born in 1889 in a Jewish family in Austria. Her family nickname was the name of Mercedes, which translated from Spanish means "mercy, grace" and in Latin means "gift of mercy". Mother Adriana lived in the Jewish Diaspora in Morocco, where next door was the Spanish community. Hence the knowledge of the Spanish language and to love the name Mercedes. Since childhood, adriana was fond of music and singing and showed no interest in cars, unlike his father.



Emil Jellinek was famous in Vienna businessman and diplomat. In the 1890s, the fate brought him together with the engineer, constructor and industrialist Gottlieb Daimler and avtokonstruktor and owner of Wilhelm Maybach. Jellinek saw the long term good earnings in the horseless carriages, which designed by Daimler and Maybach. He was able to quickly sell these cars in nice.





So Jellinek became the representative of car company "Daimler" in France. In 1899 he decided to take part in the race on one of these cars. As Consul of Austria-Hungary, Jellinek made anonymously, under the pseudonym of "Monsieur Mercedes". So he not only tested the machine, but made a good marketing move: in France interested in the cars of Daimler. After this "advertising campaign" Jellinek suggested the Daimler bargain: he had ordered 36 cars (which at that time was a very large order), but set a condition: they will be sold under the name "Mercedes" as a sales representative of the brand in Austria-Hungary, France and the United States will be Emil Jellinek. The deal was done and brought good dividends to both parties.





Cars Daimler sold well, and despite the fact that the buyers had known the name of the company producing them, soon all began to call them exclusively "Mercedes". Therefore, 1902, by the decision of Council of shareholders, the machine has received the official name "Daimler-Mercedes", in the same year, was patented trade mark "Mercedes", and the presentation model 35 hp at the exhibition in Paris, where a number of cars hung a huge portrait of the daughter of Emil. In 1926, after the merger of two automotive corporations — "Daimler" and "Benz", the car was renamed the "Mercedes-Benz".





What did the girl whose house nickname was named popular car? When Adrian was 4 years old, her mother died, and the father and children moved to nice. Later, the Mercedes returned to Austria, where he continued to study music and singing. According to contemporaries, she had a beautiful soprano. The fate of the eponymous machines it is of little interest and did not share his father's passion racing. In 1909 the Mercedes was married to Baron Carl von shlosser, but this Union was ended with a loud divorce process, the woman left her husband a poor sculptor. In 39 years, Adrian died suddenly from tuberculosis.







In 1903 her father joined her name to his name and became officially known as the Jellinek-Mercedes. And went down in history because before him no one came to mind the name of the daughter to turn in his name. During the First world war Jellinek and his second wife was accused by French authorities of spying for the enemy, and their property confiscated. Hadrian, in fact, did nothing for the development of automotive industry, became the most famous woman among motorists.





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