High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (6 April 1853 – 21 January 1918) was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (`DMG`) between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first `modern` car. Jellinek required naming the engine after his daughter,Mercedes Jellinek. The Mercedes 35hp model later contributed to the brand name developed in 1926, Mercedes-Benz, when DMG and Benz & Cie. merged into what is now among the largest car brands in the world. Jellinek lived in Vienna, Austria but later moved to Nice on the French Riviera, where he was the General Consul to Austria-Hungary.