Max Duttenhofer

Max Duttenhofer was a German entrepreneur and industrialist. His factory invented smokeless gunpowder.

Life

In 1863 Max took over a powder mill from his father, from which the gunpowder factory Rottweil emerged. In 1884 he achieved a major breakthrough; smokeless gunpowder.
In 1890, Duttenhofer was one of the three founders of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. In 1898, he initiated the founding of a private military-industrial lab 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.