Max Duttenhofer

Max Duttenhofer (May 20, 1843 in Rottweil – August 14, 1903 in Tübingen, full name: Max Wilhelm Heinrich Duttenhofer, 1896: Max von Duttenhofer) was a German entrepreneur and industrialist. His factory invented smokeless gunpowder.

Max Duttenhofer
Born	(1843-05-20)May 20, 1843 Rottweil, Germany
Died	August 14, 1896(1896-08-14) (aged 53) Tübingen, Germany

Life

In 1863 Max took over a powder mill from his father, from which the gunpowder factory Rottweil emerged.^[1] In 1884 he achieved a major breakthrough; smokeless gunpowder.^[2]

In 1890, Duttenhofer was one of the three founders of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.^[3] In 1898, he initiated the founding of a private military-industrial lab Zentralstelle für wissenschaftlich-technische Untersuchungen [de] (Center for Scientific-Technical Research) in Neubabelsberg which later gave its name to centralite.

Duttenhofer was a member of the board of the Pan-German League.

He died of a heart attack in 1903.^[4]