Erich August Gottlieb Albrecht (1907–1979) was a German-born (Magdeburg) Professor of German at the University of Kansas and Tulane University[1] and war-time military intelligence worker in the United States Army.
[2] Albrecht emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1932, becoming officially naturalized in 1943.
[3] He studied at various colleges culminating in the award of a Ph.D. (his thesis was Primitivism and Related Ideas in Eighteenth Century German Lyric Poetry 1680-1740) from the Johns Hopkins University in 1941.
Albrecht interviewed Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder in Berchtesgaden 22 May 1945.
[4] He later taught German at Newcomb College, Tulane University (1946–1965: Professor of German 1963 Departmental Chairman 1957–60, 62––65) and in 1965 joined the University of Kansas (and at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies) as J. Anthony Burzle Professor of German Language and Literature.