Alfred Alexander (7 March 1880 – 15 May 1950) was a German physician who served as President of the Berlin Association of Doctors during the 1930s.
In 1935 he and his family fled Nazi Germany to England, where he established a medical practice, with a clinic in Harley Street.
He was awarded the Iron Cross for his medical service at Saverne during World War I.
[3] For his 50th birthday party, he received regards from the glitterati of Berlin, including scientist Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize winner James Franck, artists Rudolf Grossman,[4] Hans Purrmann and Emil Hertz, writers Leonhard Frank, Rudolf Kayser, Alfred Polgar, Walter Hasenclever and Jozsef Lengyel,[5] and a large group of actors, dancers, singers and musicians.
[citation needed] As father to the war crimes investigator Hanns Alexander,[6] Alfred Alexander is featured in Hanns and Rudolf, a dual biography by Thomas Harding (Grandson of his daughter Elsie).