Composer, born in Lobenstein, EC Germany. After studying at Leipzig, he became organist in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in 1631. He did much to develop Lieder, and composed many airs, songs, chorales, and hymn tunes.
Heinrich Friedrich Albert was a German lawyer who served as commercial attaché to German Ambassador to the United States Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff during World War I.
He was the paymaster for German sabotage operations in the United States and also arranged for false documents for saboteurs and labor agitators and Germans who wanted to return to fight for the Fatherland.
He and Franz von Rintelen established a cover firm called the Bridgeport Projectile Company to purchase and destroy munitions that would otherwise be shipped to the Allies.
He was exposed as a spy because of his association with George Sylvester Viereck, the editor of The Fatherland, a pro-German publication, who was himself under surveillance.
Back in Germany, Albert was given responsibility for foreign assets in the country.
He was a successful lawyer in Berlin, representing many foreign corporations.
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