Martin Tritschler was a manufacturer and retailer of clocks that arrived in Mexico in 1833 from Germany, and was thus part of the first generation of non-Spanish immigrants after independence.
He also participated prominently in the war against the United States, gave aid to the victims of the explosion of the Colecturía de San Andrés, during the Second French Intervention, and in 1873 he became the first man to fly the flag of Mexico on the summit of Pico de Orizaba.
He was the father of Mexican archbishops Martín Tritschler y Córdova and Guillermo Tritschler y Córdova.