Friedrich Carl Albrecht (15 September 1875 – 24 December 1952) was a major cotton merchant in the city-state of Bremen.
He was the son of the wealthy cotton merchant George Alexander Albrecht (1834–1898) and Louise Dorothea Betty Knoop (1844–1889).
& Co.; his mother was the daughter of the major industrialist, Baron Ludwig Knoop, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century Russian Empire.
In 1901, he joined the firm Sanders, Swann & Co., and in 1902, he founded his own company Friedrich Carl Albrecht with his partner Heinrich Müller-Pearse.
In 1902, he founded Albrecht, Müller-Pearse & Co.[1][2] In 1902, he married the American Mary Ladson Robertson (1883–1960), who belonged to a prominent planter class and slave owner family from Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina.