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Events on Wednesday 3 May 1944 1
1944Honorary senator, on her 95th birthdayKarlsruhe, at lastThe Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe — where her husband had studied and where she had not been permitted to — makes Bertha Benz an honorary senator on 3 May 1944, her ninety-fifth birthday. It is the only formal recognition she receives in her lifetime.