The car brand "Mercedes" is indirectly related to the Virgin Mary, the Virgin of Mercy to be precise, Maria de las Mercedes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%AD ... s_Mercedes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_Mercy
The company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) designed a car for Emil Jellinek, it was named after his daughter Mercedes. it will be known as the "Mercedes 35 hp".
Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, a Jewish-Austrian automobile entrepreneur who worked with DMG, registered the trademark in 1902, naming the 1901 Mercedes 35 hp after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek. Jellinek was a businessman and marketing strategist who promoted "horseless" Daimler automobiles among the highest circles of society. At the time, it was a meeting place for the haute volée of France and Europe, especially in winter. His customers included the Rothschild family and other wealthy clients, but as early as 1901, he was selling Mercedes cars in the "New World" as well, including to billionaires Rockefeller, Astor, Morgan, and Taylor. At the Nice race he attended in 1899, Jellinek drove under the pseudonym "Monsieur Mercédès". Many consider that race the birth of Mercedes-Benz as a brand. In 1901, the name "Mercedes" was re-registered by DMG worldwide as a protected trademark. The first Mercedes-Benz branded vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company on 28 June of the same year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes 1st logo:
The Mercedes 35 hp:
The three pointed star is a bit more enigmatic:
The Mercedes-Benz Logo History
The long history of Mercedes-Benz begins back in 1890, when the company was founded by engineer and industrial designer Gottlieb Daimler. Daimler’s sons Paul and Adolf would stay involved when Wilhelm Maybach and Emil Jellinek took over ownership. In 1909, the Daimler brothers used an 1872 postcard from their father as inspiration for the logo. On the postcard, the location of their home was marked by a 3-pointed star. That year, the company (then called Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, or DMG) acquired the logo. Initially colored blue, the logo was adapted with a laurel wreath border in 1926, and changed to silver in 1934.
The Mercedes-Benz Logo Meaning
You know the Mercedes-Benz logo was initially adopted in tribute to its founder Gottlieb Daimler and the Daimler family homeland, but is there more symbolism at work here? If you ask Mercedes-Benz officials, the answer is yes:
Together, the Mercedes-Benz star’s 3 points represent the company’s drive for universal motorization — but each point also has its individual meaning. The points represent land, sea, and air — environments the company believed they would one day dominate with Mercedes-Benz engines.
The biggest change came in 1926, when the pioneering companies Daimler and Benz merged. The occasion was marked with the Mercedes-Benz 3-pointed star’s enclosure in a circle — creating the brand mark that really would go on to worldwide renown!
https://www.mercedesbenzportland.com/m ... explained/
I've seen people link that symbol the cube and the trinity but it could be viewed as a reference to an upside down version of this;
