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Events on Saturday 20 July 1872 1
1872Marriage, and the loss of legal standingPforzheim, 20 JulyBertha Ringer marries Carl Benz. Under the law of the day she immediately ceases to be an investor in the business she funded, and her money becomes his. She goes on financing him for the next fifteen years with no legal claim to any of it, and no formal role in the company that eventually bears his name.