Maximilian Moritz Schröter (25 February 1851 – 12 March 1925) was a German industrial engineer and university professor of thermodynamics and the theory of machines.
After his father′s death in 1867, Gustav Zeuner became the guardian of 16-year-old Schröter.
From 1873 to 1876 he worked in the locomotive factory Georg Sigl in Wiener Neustadt.
He then returned to Zürich, to become the university assistant of Georg Veith.
Schröter helped designing four important machines in engineering history: the refrigerator (1887), the steam superheater (1894/1895), the Diesel engine (1897), and the steam turbine (1900).