page_title: Béla Barényi
hierarchical_section_title: Béla Barényi
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Barényi Béla magyar feltaláló az első biztonsági fejlesztésekkel English: 1939 – Start of passenger car safety development by Béla Barényi Español: Mercedes Benz 125 años de innovación 1939 – comienza el desarrollo de los autos segurospor Béla Barényi.
context_page_description: Béla Barényi was an Austro-Hungarian engineer, who was a prolific inventor, sometimes even compared to Thomas Edison. Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design.
  Barényi is also credited with first conceiving the original design for the German people's car in 1925, – notably by Mercedes-Benz, on their website, including his original technical drawing, – five years before Ferdinand Porsche claimed to have made his initial version.
  Barényi was inducted into the Detroit Automotive Hall of Fame in 1994, and nominated for the award of Car Engineer of the Century in 1999.
  Barényi died in Böblingen, Germany in 1997. A Mercedes advertisement featuring Barényi’s image stated: “No one in the world has given more thought to car safety than this man.” Béla Barényi left a broad record of his inventions to the Technisches Museum Wien in Vienna in his native country.
context_section_description: Béla Barényi (1 March 1907, Hirtenberg, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – 30 May 1997, Böblingen, Germany) was an Austro-Hungarian engineer, who was a prolific inventor, sometimes even compared to Thomas Edison. Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design.
  Barényi is also credited with first conceiving the original design for the German people's car (the Volkswagen Beetle) in 1925, – notably by Mercedes-Benz, on their website, including his original technical drawing, – five years before Ferdinand Porsche claimed to have made his initial version.
  Barényi was inducted into the Detroit Automotive Hall of Fame in 1994, and nominated for the award of Car Engineer of the Century in 1999.
  Barényi died in Böblingen, Germany in 1997. A Mercedes advertisement featuring Barényi’s image stated: “No one in the world has given more thought to car safety than this man.”  Béla Barényi left a broad record of his inventions to the Technisches Museum Wien in Vienna in his native country.
caption: Béla Barényi
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