Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich ForMemRS[1] (28 January 1880 in Charlottenburg – 30 March 1941 in Minneapolis) was a German chemist.

[2][3] His father was of German Jewish descent, and his mother (née Finlay) was from Scotland.

He was a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (now the Fritz Haber Institute) from 1919 until 1933, when the racial policies of the Nazi party demanded the dismissal of non-Aryans from senior posts.

[4] Emigrating to England, Freundlich accepted a guest professorship at University College London.

His most prominent student was Robert Havemann who became a well known colloid chemist of the German Democratic Republic.