Max Duttenhofer
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Max Duttenhofer (May 20, 1843 – August 14, 1903; full name: Max Wilhelm Heinrich Duttenhofer, 1896: Max von 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.[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 (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]