Albert Friedländer

Who was Albert Friedländer?

Albert Friedländer was a German bank director, later French and Swiss author.

Albert Friedländer owned the then prestigious private bank "Bankhaus Friedländer Berlin". He also served as chairman of the Berlin stock exchange association in Berlin. Facing hardship as a Jewish citizen, he immigrated to France in 1934. After the occupation of much of the country by German troops, he was imprisoned in 1940 but managed to escape to Switzerland in 1942, where he acquired citizenship and settled in Zürich to become a writer. He lived there until his death in 1966.