Carl Albrecht (businessman)

Carl Albrecht (born September 15, 1875 in Bremen , † December 24, 1952 in Bremen) was a German cotton merchant.

biography

Friedrich Carl Albrecht was the son of George Albrecht (1834–1898), owner of the Joh. Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co. , and Louise Dorothea Betty Knoop (1844–1889), daughter of the industrialist Baron Ludwig Knoop . He was in the military in 1894/95 and then completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Gebr. Plate company . From 1896 to 1901 he worked in London , Moscow and the USA . In 1901 he became an authorized signatory at the company Sanders, Swann & Co. In 1902 he founded his own cotton import business Friedrich Carl Albrecht with partner Heinrich Müller-Pearse . Both founded the company Albrecht, Weld & Co. in Boston with Stephen M. Weld & Co. During the First World War , this company was dissolved in 1917, but in 1919 the company Albrecht, Müller-Pearse & Co. was re-established further branches. An import order with the Soviet Union in 1939 was significant . In the Second World War , most foreign connections were lost. In 1943, the company acquired the Hirschfeld house for office use. After 1945, the company that still existed was rebuilt at the time as Albrecht, Müller-Pearse & Co. (GmbH & Co.) KG , based in the Bremen Cotton Exchange .

Albrecht was represented in the plenum of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1916 to 1919 .

The physician Carl Albrecht is his son.

literature

• Fritz A. Grobien: Albrecht, Friedrich Carl. In: Historische Gesellschaft Bremen, Staatsarchiv Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912-1962 , Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 11 (column 1) to p. 12 (column 1).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

• Entry in the German gender book