Albrecht studied medicine at the
Humboldt University of Berlin and became a member of the Marchia Berlin
Landsmannschaft in the winter semester of 1913/4. While still a student, he took part in the
Kapp Putsch. He finished his studies in 1921 and received his
doctorate. Albrecht was an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Charité from the beginning of October 1921 under medical professor
Karl Bonhoeffer. He later
habilitated in 1930, and became a
Privatdozent during that same year. Three years later, Albrecht became a professor at the
University of Berlin. In 1937 he joined the
NSDAP (membership number 4,830,422). He was also a member of the
National Socialist Teachers League, the
NS Lecturers (Association), the
National Socialist People's Welfare and the
National Socialist War Victim's Care. After the
Occupation of Czechoslovakia, Albrecht was appointed full professor of neurology and psychiatry at the
Karl-Ferdinands-Universität in Prague. As successor to , he was director of the neurological and psychiatric university clinic. Albrecht became rector of the Karl-Ferdinands-Universität in August 1944 (November 1944 officially) after
Friedrich Klausing's suicide, and held this office until May 1945. In the course of the
Prague uprising at the end of the war, Czech and Soviet soldiers occupied the university. Albrecht subsequently met a violent death in his clinic by his captors at the beginning of May 1945. ==See also==