Albert Friedländer

Albert Friedländer (1888 in Berlin, Germany – 1966 in Zürich, Switzerland) 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 (Deutscher Börsenverein) 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.

Sources

• Anonymous: Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933. Vol. 1, p. 197, Munich 1980 [in German].
• Sternfeld, W., & Tiedemann, E.: Deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1945, eine Bio-Bibliographie. Darmstadt, 1962 (p. 95).