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.

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.

[3] In 1898, he initiated the founding of a private military-industrial lab Zentralstelle für wissenschaftlich-technische Untersuchungen [de] (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.