- Jalopnik, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:03 AM
Mercedes-Benz, the favored vehicle of upper-echelon members of the Third Reich, is named after a Jewish child, writes Peter Orosz of Jalopnik. He writes that the vehicle is named for the granddaughter
of Hungarian rabbi and scholar Adolf Jellinek.
Apparently, Jellinek's son Emil, who became the Austro-Hungarian Consul in Nice, was a racecar enthusiast who drove Daimlers. He met a
Sephardic Jewish woman in Morocco, married her, and named their daughter Mercedes. He appended the Mercedes name to his own and then insisted that the 1901 Daimler model be given the Mercedes name as
well since the Daimler name was offensive to the French.
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