Emil Jellinek

Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (6 April 1853 – 21 January 1918) was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft ('DMG') between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first 'modern' car. Jellinek required naming the engine after his daughter, Mercedes Jellinek. The Mercedes 35hp model later contributed to the brand name developed in 1926, Mercedes-Benz, when DMG and Benz & Cie. merged into what is now among the largest car brands in the world. Jellinek lived in Vienna, Austria but later moved to Nice on the French Riviera, where he was the General Consul to Austria-Hungary.

Read more about Emil Jellinek:  Early Life, The Diplomat and Businessman (1872 To 1893), The DMG (Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft), Daimler and Maybach (1896 To 1900), The Mercedes 35hp (1900), Life After The Mercedes Success (1900 To 1914), First World War, His Last Years (1914 To 1918), Jellinek's Properties