Max Albrecht

Max Albrecht (1905)

Max Albrecht (born October 24, 1851 in Liegnitz , † December 12, 1925 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg industrialist and politician .

Life

Pillow stone (right) for
Max Albrecht, Ohlsdorf cemetery

The son of a German-Jewish merchant family and nephew of the court president Siegfried Albrecht studied chemistry at the University of Halle and received his doctorate there in 1871. phil. He then worked for a few years on behalf of the Saxon lignite industry on the production of mineral oils from lignite and in 1874 took over the management of a factory he designed in Aussig . In 1877 he became a partner in a Riga company, for which he built refineries in Riga, Baku and, in 1884, Hamburg . At the Hamburg site, Albrecht used tankers for the first time and revolutionized oil transport with this cost-effective method. In 1891 he took over the factories in Baku and Hamburg as well as a transshipment point in Batumi on his own account and formed Mineralölwerke Albrecht & Co. KG from them ; later further handling facilities were added in Szczecin and Warsaw. When the Baku, Batumi and Warsaw locations were lost after the First World War, Albrecht switched to processing American crude oil in Duisburg and Mannheim.

Outside of his own company, Albrecht worked as an association politician, among other things as chairman of the Reichserdölverband he founded , and as the founder of the first Hamburg nursery (1911).

From 1910 to 1919 Albrecht was a member of the Hamburg parliament . He was a member of the right-wing group .

He is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery near the water tower . A statue of Arthur Bock adorns his grave.

His grandson Ernst Albrecht was from 1953 to November 1, 1956 and from 1957 to 1961 for the CDU also a member of the Hamburg Parliament and a member of the German Bundestag .

literature

Reinhold Bauer: Albrecht, Max . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 26-27 .
Maria Möhring: Albrecht, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 184 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Max Albrecht - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Family grave with pictures

Individual evidence

^ Membership directory of the Hamburg citizenship 1859 to 1959 - short biographies. Compiled and edited by Franz Th. Mönckeberg. Bound typewriter manuscript; No. 24.

personal data
SURNAME	Albrecht, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hamburg industrialist and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1925
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Membership directory of the Hamburg citizenship 1859 to 1959 - short biographies. Compiled and edited by Franz Th. Mönckeberg. Bound typewriter manuscript; No. 24.