Carl Benz: pushed out of his own company for being too slow
In 1903 Benz & Cie. replaced Carl Benz with a 25-year-old Frenchman. The sales collapse, the Paris-Madrid, and the boxer engine nobody credits him for.
Carl Benz
Siegfried Marcus: erased by the Nazis, buried by a fake date
The 1940 Propaganda Ministry letter to Daimler-Benz, the seizure of his car, and why the 1875 date the ASME still prints is false.