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  Mercedes-Benz Deutschland - Personenwagen - Historie - Emil Jellinek und seine Tochter Mercedes
Emil Jellinek, der in Nizza ein großes Haus hatte und gute Beziehungen zur internationalen Finanzwelt und Aristokratie pflegte, betätigte sich ab 1898 auch zunehmend als Automobilhändler: Er propagierte und vertrieb die Daimler-Fahrzeuge in den höchsten Kreisen der Gesellschaft.
Emil Jellinek forderte von der DMG immer stärkere und schnellere Fahrzeuge und meldete diese auch zu Rennveranstaltungen – allen voran der „Woche von Nizza“ – bei denen er unter einem Pseudonym aufzutreten pflegte: Er benutzte den Vornamen seiner Tochter.
Jellineks Pseudonym „Mercedes“ war schon damals in Automobilistenkreisen in aller Munde.
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 Mercedes-Benz USA, Mercedes Classic, Emil Jellinek and his daughter Mercedes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Emil Jellinek was born in Leipzig on April 6, 1853.
Emil Jellinek was then sent to France and from there at the request of the Austro-Hungarian Consul, he went to Tangier.
Emil Jellinek, who ran a large establishment in Nice and developed good relations with international financiers and aristocrats, became increasingly active as a businessman from 1898, promoting and selling Daimler cars especially to the top echelons of society.
www.mbusa.com /heritage/emil-jellinek-and-mercedes.do   (754 words)

  
 Emil Jellinek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jellinek had some legal problems over the use of the Daimler name in France with Panhard Levassor who owned the Daimler licences for France, and the use of the Mercedes name put an end to that problem.
Jellinek was a shareholder in both DMG and Austro Daimler.
Jellinek's granddaughter is Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian feminist playwright and Nobel laureate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Jellinek   (2492 words)

  
 Mercedes
Jellinek was a speed addict: when he was 19 he had to give up a promising career with the railways when he had persuaded a locomotive engine driver to join him for a nocturnal speed test.
Jellinek claimed that the reason for the accident was that the car was too tall and heavy.
Jellinek also demanded that the car he "designed" would be named after Mercedes at least in France, Austria and USA where Jellinek held the exclusive selling rights to Daimler.
www.automedia-online.com /collection/badges/quell/merc.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Emil Jellinek - Wikipedia
Emil Jellinek (later Emil Jellinek-Mercedes) (6 april 1852 in Leipzig - 21 januari 1918 in Geneve) was een Oostenrijks-Hongaarse consul.
Zijn vader Adolf Jellinek was een rabbijn, zijn oom George Jellinek was hoogleraar internationaal recht in Heidelberg, zijn andere oom Max Jellinek doceerde filologie en een derde oom Moritz Jellinek was een econoom die de trammaatschappij van Boedapest had opgericht.
Jellinek zelf echter wou niks doen en leek voor galg en rad op te groeien.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Jellinek   (320 words)

  
 Hempcar.org-Mercedes Benz
On 16th September 1889, a third child was born to businessman Emil Jellinek in Vienna.
Emil Jellinek, alias "Monsieur Mercedes",first won the Tour de Nice on 21st March 1899, when his daughter was just nine and a half years old.
Emil Jellinek was so taken with this design that he put in an order for thirty-six cars, worth 550,000 gold marks.
www.hempcar.org /benz.shtml   (1377 words)

  
 MERCEDES-BENZ HISTORY
A wealthy banker-sportsman Emil Jellinek of Vienna was much impressed by the success of the Daimler motor in racing competition.
It was Jellinek who encouraged Daimler in his idea to create what was to be the most powerful car of its day, a 35 h.p.
Jellinek's own international reputation as a sportsman and his careful selection of purchasers of the limited number of Mercedes available placed the cars with an upper-bracket clientele which, nearly as much as the car's own intrinsic superior engineering and design, gave the Mercedes it's reputation as a quality and high performance product.
www.ordain.com /history.htm   (713 words)

  
 Www.Geocities.Com/SlkClub - Mercedes-Benz History
She was a 12-year old girl, Mercedes Jellinek by name, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, the Austro-Hungarian consul in Nice, France, at the turn of the century.
Jellinek was enthusiastic about the dawn of the motoring age and believed that the motor car was of major importance for the future.
Jellinek, convinced that this new design would be a big hit on the market, ordered 36 cars on condition that he be made sole agent for the sales of these cars in certain countries.
www.geocities.com /slkclub/history.html   (2537 words)

  
 Ko je ova djevojčica? - Printable Version
Emil Jellinek’s business activities were so profitable that he moved to Nice.
From 1898 Emil Jellinek, who owned a large house in Nice and was well connected in international financial and aristocratic circles, became increasingly active as a dealer in automobiles, promoting and selling Daimler vehicles in the uppermost echelons of society.
Emil Jellinek urged DMG to produce increasingly powerful and fast vehicles, and also entered them for racing events – above all the Nice Week – where he habitually competed under a pseudonym: he used the first name of his daughter.
www.pungas.com /forum/printthread.php?tid=10257   (361 words)

  
 Racing for Business: Mercedes-Benz in the 1990s
To the men of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG), their distributor in the south of France, Emil Jellinek, was to blame for the tragedy for having asked for such a recklessly fast car.
Jellinek also pointed out, as he wrote later, that "the French appreciated long ago that to be stable a racing car must be low, wide and long." Although this was also evident to Maybach, Emil Jellinek's urging was independent encouragement in this direction.
At first Maybach encountered resistance to his scroll clutch from Emil Jellinek, who wanted to be sure the clutch could be freed to allow the car to coast on downhill runs.
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Jellinek was remote from technological matters, but he asked why the automobile layout was so irrational.
Rachel and Emil Jellinek gave their daughter a Spanish Christian name which means "grace" and later became world-famous: Mercedes.
Emil Jellinek, alias "Monsieur Mercedes", first won the Tour de Nice on 21st March 1899, when his daughter was just nine and a half years old.
www3.sympatico.ca /karasik/GF_mercedes.html   (781 words)

  
 Everyone’s heard of Miss Jellinek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Emil was very good at what he did and had a very close relationship with DMG.
Emil had invested a lot in the project and had managed to get DMG to build him the most powerful cars they had ever built and he was going to drive one of them in races at the Nice Week Motor Festival of 1901.
Emil became known as “Monsieur Mercedes” and in 1903 he obtained permission to be officially called Jellinek-Mercedes.
www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk /shortjellinek.htm   (556 words)

  
 History
Forward-looking and sportily inclined, Jellinek was enthusiastic about the dawn of the motoring age and believed that the motor car was a major importance for the future.
Since Jellinek was a big figure in society there and had good relations with the international financial world and the aristocracy, it was not long before prospective buyers and distinguished customers were taking an interest in the Daimler cars.
Next year a fatal accident took place during a hill-climb race an, at the instigation of Emil Jellinek and supported by Wilhelm Maybach, Daimler's brilliant designer, it was decided to adopt a new design with larger wheelbase, lower center gravity and powerful engine.
members.tripod.com /~bonaccorti/history.html   (955 words)

  
 Hempcar.org-Mercedes Benz
On 16th September 1889, a third child was born to businessman Emil Jellinek in Vienna.
Emil Jellinek, alias "Monsieur Mercedes",first won the Tour de Nice on 21st March 1899, when his daughter was just nine and a half years old.
Emil Jellinek was so taken with this design that he put in an order for thirty-six cars, worth 550,000 gold marks.
hempcar.org /benz.shtml   (1377 words)

  
 Mercedes-Benz USA, Mercedes Classic, Brand History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mercedes —; a Spanish girls' name meaning 'grace' — was the name of the daughter born in 1889 to the Austrian businessman, Emil Jellinek, who had homes in Baden near Vienna and Nice.
A progressive thinker with an interest in sport, Jellinek turned his enthusiasm to the dawning age of the automobile, an invention he knew would be of key importance for the future.
Emil Jellinek had good contacts with the worlds of international finance and the aristocracy and became increasingly active as a businessman.
www.mbusa.com /heritage/brand-history.do   (1148 words)

  
 The Library of Congress Shop > Prints, Photographs > One-of-a-Kind > Mercedes and Benz ...
Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz both created auto companies in the late 1890's and became competitors selling state of the art auto's that also were popular as race cars.
In April 1900, Emil Jellinek a progressive Austrian businessman and auto racing enthusiast, made an agreement with Daimler's company, Cailmer-Motoren-Gesellscat (DMG), to produce a new engine which bore the name "Daimler-Mercedes." Mercedes--a Spanish girl's name meaning "grace"-- was named after his young daughter.
Jellinek began to sell DMG cars in 1898 and was an avid auto racer and did much to create interest in Mercedes and the sport.
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 Mercedes Benz
As a businessman and an inventor himself Emil Jellinek had interest in automobiles and travelled from Stuttgart where he lived, to Cannstatt to meet with Gottlieb Daimler, of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft.
Emil continued to enter in the automobile competitions under the name Mercedes and won his first Tour de Nice in 1899.
Emil Jellinek thought the new design was better and put in an order of thirty six cars but on the conditions that Jellinek was the sole agent for Austria-Hungary, France and America and that the vehicles must be named Mercedes after his daughter.
www.germansportscars.com /mercedes.htm   (379 words)

  
 Planet Wissen - Automobilbau - Porträt Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek (1853-1918) wurde zu seiner Zeit als "Lebemann" bezeichnet.
Jellinek forderte von der Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft ein stärkeres und schnelleres Fahrzeug.
Jellinek lastete mit den Bestellungen seiner Kunden die Daimler-Fabrik in Cannstadt völlig aus.
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 Virtual Vienna Net - Through Billie Ann's Eyes - Austrian Old Timer Automobile Museums
Mércèdes was the eleven year old daughter of Emil Jellinek, an Austrian Jew, who was a passionate motorcar sportsman and competitor, racing under the pseudonym "Monsieur Mércèdes".
Jellinek became Daimler's sole distributor outside of Germany, ordering motorcars for Austria, Hungary, France, Belgium, and the U.S. Another important ingredient for Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's success was Wilhelm Maybach whose genius for engineering perfection made it possible to create the modern high-performance motorcar sought by Emil Jellinek.
Jellinek bought 36 Daimler Simplex 40 hp built to his specifications in 1900 for a total price of 550,000 Goldmarks and marketed them under the Mercedes name.
www.virtualvienna.net /columns/billie/automuseums.html   (1617 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1,899, Emil Jellinek, who was soon to become interested in the world of motoring, bought a Daimler Phoenix from the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellchaft, in which in he entered and won, the 1,899 "Tour de Nice" under the pseudonym of "Mercedes".
Mr Jellinek, then decided to invest in the world of the automobile and placed an order for 36 vehicles with the Daimler-Motorn-Gesellchaft, to the value of 500,000 golden marks; however there were certain conditions.
Emil Jellinek also named the villa that he owned in Nice the "Villa Mercedes".
www.theclassictimes.com /english/curiosities/MercedesOrigin.asp   (252 words)

  
 The Art of the Sports Car, Dennis Adler - HarperAcademic
When he caught up with Jellinek, Rothschild was so exasperated by the incident that he purchased the Daimler on the spot.
Jellinek blamed the accident not on Bauer but on the design of the Phoenix, which he now said was inadequate for the engine power.
Despite the loss of Bauer, Jellinek persisted in his demands for faster cars, cars with better engineering and more stylish coachwork than Daimler was producing, an automobile that he defined as having a longer wheelbase, lower center of gravity, and a more powerful engine.
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 Mercedes History
Emil Jellinek of Vienna, a wealthy banker-sportsman, was very impressed by the success of the Daimler motor in racing competition.
Jellinek encouraged Daimler to create what was to be the most powerful car of its day.
The car was christened in honor of Emil Jellinek's beautiful daughter, Mercedes.
www.exoticcarrental.com /MercedesHistory.htm   (293 words)

  
 Mercedes-Benz - German brand name of automobiles
In 1899, DMG automobiles built at Untertürkheim (a city district of Stuttgart) were raced successfully by Emil Jellinek (1853-1918), an automobile enthusiast and dealer.
Wanting faster race cars, it was Jellinek who spurred the development of the seminal 1900 DMG model that would be the first of the DMG Mercedes series, bearing the name of his daughter.
Jellinek was invited to sit on the DMG board of directors, which he did from 1901 until 1909, when he retired from automotive activities in favor of diplomatic appointments.
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 Your Enza / History of Mercedes Benz / Mercedes and Mitsubishi Trucks and Vans / Trucks Mercedes Vario Atego Actros. ...
Mercedes a Spanish girls' name meaning 'grace', was the name of the daughter born in 1889 to the Austrian businessman, Emil Jellinek, who had homes in Baden near Vienna and Nice.
At the beginning of April 1900, Jellinek made an agreement with DMG concerning sales of cars and engines and the decision was taken to use the pseudonym 'Mercedes' as a product name.
Two weeks later, Jellinek ordered 36 of the vehicles at a total price of 550,000 marks a sizeable order even at today's equivalent value of DM 5.5 million.
www.enzamotors.com /about-us/history-of-mercedes-benz.html   (1316 words)

  
 Mercedes Critic Name of the week analysis trademark and brand rating
To race these new models, Emil named his racing team "Mercedes racing", after his lovely daughter with the Spanish name meaning "mercy" and he soon became known as "Monsieur Mercédès" in racing circles.
Emil even officially changed his name to Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, perhaps the first time in history a man was named after his daughter!
Emil went on to be an Austrian diplomat but always loved cars and racing.
www.brighternaming.com /critic_mercedes.html   (347 words)

  
 The Tribune - Windows - Did you know...
N September 16, 1889, a third child was born to an Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek in Vienna.
Rachel and Emil gave their daughter a Spanish Christian name, which meant "grace" and later became world famous.
In 1897, Emil travelled from his home in France to purchase a car from the Daimler factory in Germany.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030809/windows/did.htm   (211 words)

  
 Mercedes - The first "real" car...
The Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, who lived in Nice at the turn of the twentieth century, and at the time was already known as "Monsieur Mercedes", was virtually addicted to technical progress - above all to the newly invented car, its speed and its performance.
In Jellinek's opinion, the only one capable of realizing his ideas was Wilhelm Maybach, the ingenious technical brain of DMG.
To give emphasis to his detailed wishes, Jellinek also ordered 36 vehicles from DMG, with a total worth of 550,000 Marks - in today's terms about DEM 5.5 million: a sensationally large order for DMG, and more were to follow later.
www.mercedes-benz.co.za /pc/FeatureSites/Classic/Info1.htm   (2270 words)

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