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00:00This is the story of a child whose father died at the age of 2 and his mother raised him with a lot of hard work.
00:06He was betrayed by his business partner in business.
00:09But despite this, he built the most luxurious car of the century, the Mercedes Benz.
00:14This car became so famous that it became Hitler's most preferred car.
00:18But this luxury car also has a dark past.
00:20And that is that at Hitler's behest, he forced 3,000-6,000 workers to work at his factories.
00:27And even more interesting is that the word Mercedes in Mercedes Benz is the name of a rich man's daughter.
00:34But why was this car named after his daughter?
00:37If you want to know the answers to all these questions, then pick up the popcorn and watch this documentary carefully.
00:43Karl Benz was born on 25th November 1844 in Murlburg, Germany.
00:59His father was a locomotive driver and his mother was a housewife.
01:02When Karl Benz was 2 years old, his father died and his mother had to work in different places to raise him.
01:08Karl Benz saw his mother's hard work and became a good student.
01:12At the age of 15, he qualified for Mechanical Engineering and took admission in Karlsruhe Polytechnic School.
01:18After completing his engineering studies, he worked in 7 different places.
01:23He worked in an iron construction company.
01:25Sometimes he worked as a draftsman and sometimes as a designer.
01:28While working, he looked at his environment and one thing became clear to him.
01:32And that was that there would be no horse carriages in the future.
01:37And such cars would be made that would be able to walk on the roads on their own.
01:40Whenever he would discuss this with his friends, his friends would laugh at him.
01:45But Karl Benz didn't care.
01:47At the age of 27, Karl Benz left his job and made a mechanic his business partner.
01:53This business partner's name was August Ritter.
01:55And the two of them together opened an iron factory.
01:58In his free time, Mr. Benz was always busy making cars that could walk on their own.
02:02Karl was so busy working on his engine that his friends betrayed him.
02:06Karl didn't know what to do.
02:08Because his business partner August Ritter also had company shares.
02:12And that's why Karl couldn't leave this company.
02:15Because all his money for food and drink came from this iron factory.
02:19But in this bad situation, a girl helped him.
02:21And this girl's name was Bertha Ringer.
02:24Who later became his wife.
02:26Now what happened was that Bertha's family had saved some money for his dowry.
02:31Now what Bertha did was that she took some money from this money and bought all the shares of August Ritter.
02:37Because of which now there were only two owners of this iron factory.
02:40Bertha and Mr. Karl Benz.
02:42And for the next 10 years, they have named many patents.
02:45Like, they got one patent on how to ignite the battery of the engine.
02:50They got the second patent to make the gear shift.
02:53Third for the clutch, fourth to make the carburetor.
02:56Fifth to keep the engine cool.
02:58Sixth patent was on the spark plug.
03:00And seventh for the speed regulator.
03:02Even after getting so many patents, this company was not earning money.
03:05Because of which Mr. Karl Benz used to sell some shares of the company to the investors.
03:10And take money in return.
03:12And this process continued.
03:14And in the end, only 5% of the company was left with Karl Benz.
03:17Because of which all the other investors demoted Karl.
03:21That is, they put him in a small position.
03:23And Karl was very sad.
03:25When Benz had come to know that his dreams cannot be fulfilled by staying in this company.
03:29And he left this company.
03:31And he came back to zero.
03:42A few weeks later, Benz met two brothers.
03:45Their names were Max Rose and Frederick Wilhelm.
03:48Who were the owners of a cycle shop.
03:50These three together created a new company.
03:52Which was named Benz & C.
03:54This company soon got success.
03:56Benz was getting a lot of time here to work on his engine.
03:59And in 1885, he made a car that could run on its own.
04:04And he got it patented.
04:06And it was named Benz Patent Motor Wagon.
04:09Its maximum speed was 16 km per hour.
04:12Now this model 1 was very difficult to control.
04:15And once there was a public demonstration.
04:17And this model went and collided with the wall.
04:20Because of which this model was very weak.
04:22Next year, in 1889, he launched model 2.
04:25And after two years, model 3.
04:27Mr. Benz's wife Bertha was sure that this model 3 was very good.
04:31And to sell it more, its publicity should be done.
04:34But Mr. Benz was not happy with this.
04:36He knew that if this model collided with the wall.
04:39Then these models would not be sold again.
04:41That's why he was not doing its publicity.
04:43Then on 4th August, 1888, Bertha decided something.
04:47She secretly went to her five children at night.
04:49She whispered something in the ears of two of them.
04:51And came back to sleep with her husband.
04:54Now the next morning, no one had thought about what she did.
04:58That Bertha could take such a step.
05:10Bertha Benz woke up the next day.
05:12She took her two sons, Richard and Eugene, with her.
05:15She took Benz model 3 out of the garage.
05:17And started the car.
05:18And went to her mother, who was 106 km away.
05:21When many people saw her on the way.
05:23They were scared and started shouting.
05:25No one knew what this thing was.
05:27Which was moving by itself.
05:29And there was no horse to drive it.
05:31But Mrs. Benz kept walking.
05:33At that time, only 4.5 liters of fuel was available in model 3.
05:37She stopped the car at a pharmacy to buy Ligroin, which was a petroleum solvent.
05:43Because there was no petrol pump in those days.
05:45She bought Ligroin from that pharmacy.
05:47And put it in the car.
05:49The most interesting thing is that this pharmacy in Germany.
05:52It is now called the first fuel station of the world.
05:55That is, the very first petrol pump.
05:58Apart from this, there were no good roads at that time.
06:00That's why the car broke down in between.
06:02Bertha stopped the car again and again.
06:04She took the children down.
06:05She repaired the car with her hairpin.
06:07And completed a few kilometers of the car again.
06:10In between, her car brakes were completely worn out.
06:12Because it was made of wood.
06:14So Bertha stopped the car at a car repair shop.
06:17And got leather brakes installed.
06:19Bertha and her two sons took 12 hours to cover this 106 kilometers.
06:25Upon reaching there, she told her husband on telegram.
06:28That she has reached her mother's house.
06:30After a few days, she came back to Carl Benz in the same car.
06:34Both their businesses got a lot of publicity from this trip.
06:38Bertha also told Carl about the improvements in Yvonne's brakes.
06:41Because of this, this design was changed.
06:44And in this way, for the first time.
06:46A wife brought her husband's invention to the world.
06:59The company got a lot of publicity from Bertha's activity.
07:02And their internal combustion engine sold a lot.
07:05And Benz became the world's largest automobile company.
07:08And in 1899, they sold 570 cars all over the world.
07:12This number is very big for that time.
07:14Because everyone used only horse cars.
07:17And only rich people could afford these cars.
07:20At that time, Benz's company was doing very well.
07:22But there was another company that became their competitor.
07:25And it was making very good cars like Benz.
07:28The name of this competitor was Daimler Motors.
07:30Now there were two partners in this.
07:32Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.
07:35Now both of them were engineers.
07:37But Daimler was also a very good businessman.
07:40He knew how to make maximum profit from his business.
07:43But this intelligent businessman was not Mr. Carl Benz.
07:47In 1887, Daimler Motors had made a front engine motor car.
07:51Which looked like today's car.
07:53That is, it looked better than Benz's cars.
07:55And after that, Daimler Motors made its masterpiece.
07:58Which was Mercedes 35 HP.
08:01Now why was this car called Mercedes?
08:03The story behind it is also very interesting.
08:05There was a rich businessman at that time.
08:07His name was Emil Jelinek.
08:09Who used to sell a lot of cars.
08:11Today we can say that he had a showroom.
08:13He told the owners of Daimler Motors.
08:15Look, I can give you a very big order for a car.
08:18But I have two conditions.
08:20Shirt number one.
08:21This new car should be better than the old model.
08:25Shirt number two.
08:26The name of this car will be kept above my daughter Mercedes.
08:30The owners of Daimler Motors agreed to this.
08:32And this model became very famous.
08:34After this, Germany's economic situation was not good.
08:37Because of which both Benz and Daimler's cars were not selling.
08:40Now these two companies decided that they should merge.
08:43And they actually did the same.
08:46And this company was named.
08:48Daimler Benz Company.
08:50After this, all the models that these two companies launched.
08:52Instead of calling them Daimler Benz.
08:54They called them Mercedes Benz.
08:56Like Mercedes Model S, Model S SK etc.
08:59And a very famous designer designed all these models.
09:03Whose name was Ferdinand Porsche.
09:05I hope you must have heard the name Porsche.
09:07In April 1929, Carl Benz died.
09:10When he was 84 years old.
09:12And after this, Adolf Hitler entered.
09:25Hitler liked Mercedes Benz so much that he used to travel in it.
09:29Hitler wanted the whole world to know.
09:31That Germany's cars are the best.
09:33That's why he told the Daimler Benz company.
09:35That you should make a car that is the fastest in the world.
09:38And this is what happened.
09:39Out of all the car races in the world at that time.
09:42Benz's car won the maximum race.
09:45Another company was winning the car race at that time.
09:47Whose name was Auto Union.
09:49But this was also a German company.
09:51Then World War II started in 1939.
09:54During World War II, Hitler told Germany's maximum companies.
09:57That they will now only make products for the army.
10:00That's why the Daimler Benz company also stopped its main production.
10:04And started making vehicles and trucks for Nazi Germany.
10:08When Hitler asked the Benz company to make more trucks.
10:10So first the Benz company hired women workers.
10:12But when this also did not work.
10:14So the Jews who were prisoners.
10:16Made them workers and forced them to work.
10:19At one time, 63,000 prisoners were working for the Benz company.
10:24When Germany lost the war, the image of these companies got very bad.
10:27That they forced the prisoners to work.
10:30Which was also accepted by the Daimler Benz company.
10:33All the foreign manufacturing plants other than Germany.
10:36They were taken from them.
10:38And only the German manufacturing plants remained with them.
10:41Now after this, this company started building its image.
10:43They first made ambulances.
10:45And then vehicles for the police.
10:47Then they started making cars for the common people again.
10:50If I talk about the financial year 2022.
10:53They sold 24 lakh cars.
10:55The total value of which was 13,640 billion Indian Rupees.
10:59Which is almost 3.5 times that of Tata Motors.
11:02And today they have made the Mercedes brand so famous.
11:04That if someone buys a Mercedes car.
11:06He is so happy that he thinks.
11:08That he has cleared an IAS exam.
11:10Or made a unicorn.
11:12If we talk about after the Second World War.
11:14They have launched luxury cars one after the other.
11:17Like in the 1950s.
11:19W187-220 which is a full-size luxury car.
11:22Grand Tourer luxury car.
11:24W186-300.
11:26W121-190.
11:28W128-220 SE.
11:30In the 1960s.
11:32W112-300 SE.
11:34W100-600.
11:36W114, W115-200 etc.
11:38In the 1970s.
11:40R107 SL class.
11:42C107 SLC class.
11:44W123 mid-size executive car.
11:46In the 1980s.
11:48W123 executive class car.
11:50W201-190 compact executive car.
11:52In the 1990s.
11:54W168 A class.
11:56W210 E class.
11:58W463 G class.
12:00W163 M class.
12:02W140 S class.
12:04In the 2000s.
12:06W169 A class.
12:08W245 B class.
12:10W204 C class.
12:12C216 CL class.
12:14In the 2010s.
12:16W415 Setan.
12:18W222 S class.
12:20C117 CLA.
12:22X156 GLA etc.
12:24In the 2020s.
12:26H247 GLA class.
12:28W223 S class.
12:30W206 C class.
12:32R501 EQE SUV CLE.
12:34W214 E class.
12:36Do you know that in India,
12:38out of every 1000,
12:40450 Gujaratis own a car?
12:42This means that Gujaratis own
12:44the most cars in India.
12:46And yes,
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