Erich August Gottlieb Albrecht (1907–1979) was a German-born (Magdeburg) Professor of German at the University of Kansas and Tulane UniversityAnon (1959) The South Central Bulletin, South-Central Modern Language Association Vol. 19, No. 1, Feb., pp. 1, 5-6 and war-time military intelligence worker in the United States Army.MacKenzie, S.P. (1994) "The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II," The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 66, No. 3, September, pp. 487-520
Emigration Albrecht emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1932, becoming officially naturalized in 1943. 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.
World War II work During World War II he was engaged by American Intelligence in London and traveled to Germany after the war in Europe had ended. Albrecht interviewed Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder in Berchtesgaden 22 May 1945.Schroeder, Christa (2008) He Was My Chief : The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary 208 p. Schroeder, Christa / Moorhouse, Roger (INT) / Brooks, Geoffrey (TRN), Frontline Books, AppendixJoachimsthaler, Anton (2009) I was Hitler's secretary: As Hitler's right-hand woman, Christa Schroeder had a unique insight into his intelligence, his temper, and his quirks. The Daily Telegraph, 26 Apr. He was also, for a short period after the war, a special consultant to the US secretary of War.
After the war He later taught German at Newcomb College, Tulane University (1946–1965; Professor of German, 1963; Departmental Chairman, 1957–1960, 1962–1965) 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.
His entry in Who's Who in America lists him as having been awarded the title of honor citizen of New Orleans (1965) and as having been awarded a German decorated Order of Merit (1960). These and further biographical details have been published in the .
Selected publications
Albrecht, E. (1938). , Lippincott, 1938. (xi–231, text 143 pp.) Albrecht, Erich A. (1949). "New German Words in Popular English Dictionaries", The German Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan.), pp. 10–16 Albrecht, Erich August Gottlieb (1950) Primitivism and Related Ideas in Eighteenth Century German Lyric Poetry 1680–1740, J. H. Furst, Baltimore
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