company. As an unmarried woman, she was able to do so; after she married Benz, according to German law, Bertha lost her legal power to act as an investor.

Adult life

On 20 July 1872, Bertha Ringer married Carl Benz.

Thanks to her premarital financial support, Carl Benz moved on from his failing iron construction company to a new manufacturing venture, Benz & Cie, continuing to use her dowry as financial support, to pursue his lifelong dream of the first true automobile.

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