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      Bertha Benz
          
          * 1849 Pforzheim
              + 1944 Ladenburg
          
          
           
        
      
      
        Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer.
          She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile
          inventor Carl Benz.
          On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive an
          internal-combustion-engined automobile
          over a long distance, field testing the Benz
          Patent-Motorwagen.
      
      
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