George Alexander Albrecht (businessman)

George Alexander Albrecht (2 August 1834 – 24 November 1898) was a German cotton merchant in the city-state of Bremen.

He undertook an apprenticeship with the Bremen firm Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe.

He was a member of the boards of directors of several other companies, and in 1895 he was appointed as the Austro-Hungarian Consul.

[citation needed] In 1864, he married Louise Dorothea Betty von Knoop (1844–1889), the daughter of the major industrialist, Baron Ludwig Johann von Knoop.

[2] A street in Bremen and a bay on the eastern coast of Greenland were named in his honour.