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The disappointment was great when Cacilie Bertha Ringer was born in Pforzheim on May 3, 1849. The third child of Auguste Friederike Ringer and her husband, the wealthy master carpenter Karl Friedrich Ringer, is "unfortunately a girl again," as the disappointed mother writes in the family Bible. Years later, long after the desired heir and other sons and daughters were born, Bertha discovered this entry and decided to prove to the mother that a girl could also achieve and do something extraordinary, not just a boy.
As a student at the secondary school for girls in Pforzheim, Bertha enjoyed what was, for the time, a comprehensive education, which, of course, ended with her confirmation. At twenty she met Carl Benz. He is five years older, good-looking, and likes to dance. Above all, however, he is diligent and ambitious and is, therefore, a good candidate for marriage. He attended the polytechnic in his hometown of Karlsruhe but had to leave the university after four years of study without a degree to earn money. In various jobs, in which he always rose quickly, he learned mechanical engineering from scratch. Since the beginning of 1869, he has been working in Pforzheim, where he draws construction drafts for railway bridges. Carl loves anything with wheels and dreams of a motorized road car. From the very beginning, he shares this dream with his fiancé, who - unusual for a woman - does not hide her interest in technical matters. "I'm probably the first person who ever knew that a car should be built," Bertha Benz later said in an interview married in July 1872. In the contingent, the groom trades as a machine manufacturer. In the meantime, Carl Benz set up his mechanical workshop for the manufacture of technical equipment in the up-and-coming industrial city of Mannheim. Bertha made this possible for him by having his father's inheritance paid out and investing it in the company together with her dowry.