Alfred Albrecht (22.2.1899 Zastler/Hochschwarzwald – 10.7.1980 Munich) and Maria Albrecht (28.9.1902 Zastler/Hochschwarzwald – 17.4.1980 Munich)

Alfred Albrecht grew up in the Black Forest, where his Catholic family operated an agricultural estate. After the death of their parents, the six children sold the property. Alfred Albrecht moved to Munich and ran a trucking company and drove trucks. In 1929, he and his wife were baptized as Jehovah’s Witnesses. In 1936, they distributed the protest flyer “Resolution” in Haidhausen. One day before the action, each of them had received 50 copies. Alfred Albrecht handed over an envelope with the flyer to the SS sentry who was guarding Hitler's house on the Prinzregentenplatz with the request that he hand it over to the “Führer”. He was arrested five days after that. On May 4, 1937, the Munich Special Court sentenced Alfred and Maria Albrecht to eight and five months in prison respectively; these parents of three children served their sentences one after the other. After his imprisonment, Alfred Albrecht had to report to the Gestapo every two weeks. In 1939, he was admitted to the Eglfing-Haar sanatorium and nursing home, where he was held due to his “attitude hostile to the state” until the end of the Third Reich. Even after 1945, the couple remained active in a Munich community of Jehovah’s Witnesses.