Famous People with Name Albrecht

Albrecht Altdorfer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Albrecht Altdorfer: German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht D

Albrecht D            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Albrecht D: a German painter, engraver and mathematician.

Albrecht Kossel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Albrecht Kossel: a German medical doctor.

Albrecht Goertz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Albrecht Goertz: was a German who designed cars for BMW including the BMW 503 and BMW 507.Goertz joined the US Army in 1940 and served for five years. After leaving the Army he drove the Paragon to New York and while driving it he accidentally encountered Raymond Loewy, the famous car designer. Loewy invited Goertz to his office, sent him to college to learn about design and later gave him a job in the Studebaker studio in Indiana.

Albrecht Penck            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Albrecht Penck: was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.Penck became a university professor in Vienna from 1885 to 1906, and in Berlin from 1906 to 1927. There he was also the director of the Institute and Museum for Oceanography by 1918. Penck dedicated himself to geomorphology and climatology and raised the international profile of the Vienna School of physical geography. In 1945, Penck died in Prague. Since 1886, he was married to the sister of the successful Bavarian regional writer Ludwig Ganghofer. In memory of Penck, the painter and sculptor Ralf Winkler adopted the nom de plume A. R. Penck in 1966.

Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht: is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and a former high-ranking civil servant of the European Commission. He served as Premier of the state of Lower Saxony from 1976 to 1990. He entered politics in his native Germany when he was elected

Harold Glenn Albrecht            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Glenn Albrecht: is a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga. He defeated the incumbent Liberal MP, Lynn Myers, by just over 1000 votes in the 2006 federal election to gain a seat in the Canadian House of Commons.