Max Graetz

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Max Graetz (1861-1936) was the President/CEO of the Ehrich & Graetz firm in Berlin. He was also the main inventor.

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Between 1900-1916 he invented the Petromax lantern.

Ehrich & Graetz was a big metalworks firm until the Second World War.

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