Max Haider (21 July 1807 in Biederstein, Schwabing, Munich – 21 June 1873 in Munich) was a German huntsman, draughtsman, lithographer, cartoonist and illustrator.

He married Therese Fäßler (1811–1893), and was the father to landscape painter Karl Haider, and grandfather to painter Ernst Haider.^[1]

Haider provided hunting illustrations for the Fliegende Blätter weekly magazine and the Münchener Bilderbogen bi-weekly broadsheet. These illustrations fitted the cultural programme of Maximilian II of Bavaria's belief in reviving regional and national art to awaken a Bavarian national identity, which countered those of his father Ludwig I.

Works by Haider are in the collection of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich.

• Max Haider: Die Jagd, Braun und Schneider, Munich 1862
• Ebnet, Werner; Sie haben in München gelebt: Biografien aus acht Jahrhunderten (They lived in Munich: biographies from eight centuries) Allitera Verlag (20 July 2016) p. 244. ISBN 9783869067445

• Media related to Max Haider at Wikimedia Commons
• Literature by and about Max Haider in the German National Library catalogue
• "Haider, Max" in Deutsche Biographie
• "Haider, Max", Consortium of European Research Libraries (cerl.org)
• "Haider, Max", Virtual International Authority File (VIAF ID: 39651441)