{{short description|German businessman and inventor}} {{inline|date=February 2026}} '''Max Graetz''' (1861-1936) was the President/CEO of the Ehrich & Graetz firm in Berlin. He was also the main inventor.
Between 1900-1916 he invented the Petromax lantern.
Ehrich & Graetz was a big metalworks firm until the Second World War.
==See also== *Kerosene lamp *Petromax
==Further reading== * Ernst Quadt: ''Deutsche Industriepioniere.'' Berlin 1940.
==External links== *[http://www.petromax.nl www.petromax.nl] *[http://www.hytta.de/info/en_graetz.htm Short History of Petromax and Graetz] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130506080336/http://classicpressurelamps.com/forum/ Historical Lamp Forum]
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Graetz, Max}} Category:1861 births Category:1936 deaths Category:20th-century German inventors
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