Max Reisch (1912–1985) was an Austrian long distance traveler, author, researcher and orientalist who in 1933 made the first overland journey by motorcycle to India (from Europe), and who in 1935/1936 was the first to circumnavigate the world by traversing Mainland Southeast Asia in a car.

Max Reisch attended primary and secondary schools in Bozen and Kufstein 1918 – 1924, then finished the HTL Mödling, and was graduated as "Ingenieur" (Austrian title) in Building construction 1931.

Further he drove as pioneer by car into the Far East, crossing Mainland Southeast Asia for the first time ever, going as far as China and subsequently via Japan and the USA around the world.

[3] These travels were performed using expanded serial Puch Motorcycles (models 175 and 250), a modified Steyr 100 car, and the first European Motorhome, invented and designed by Max Reisch himself.

See here the detailed list of audio-, video- and web-contributions in the "Max-Reisch-Biblio-, Media- und Webografie by Ingo Mörth" (section: Audio, Video and Web)[23] For recent and still active websites pertaining to Max Reisch see below (external links).