Max Duttenhofer
German businessman
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| Intro | German businessman | |
| Places | Germany | |
| is | Businessperson Industrialist Entrepreneur | |
| Work field | Business | |
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| Birth | Rottweil | |
| Death | Tübingen |
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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.
Life
In 1863 Max took over a powder mill from his father, from which the gunpowder factory Rottweil emerged. In 1884 he achieved his big breakthrough, a sensational development in the field of military technology: smokeless gunpowder.
In 1890, Duttenhofer was one of the three founders of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.
Duttenhofer was a member of the board of the Pan-German League.
He died of a heart attack in 1903.