# Carl Albrecht

carl albrecht (28 March 1902 – 19 July 1965) was a German psychologist, psychotherapist and medical doctor, who developed a new method of meditation based on autogenic training, and who was known for his psychological research on mystical consciousness. == Life == Albrecht belonged to a family of wealthy cotton merchants; his father was the cotton merchant carl albrecht (1875–1952) and his mother was the American-born Mary Ladson Robertson (1883–1960), who belonged to a prominent planter family from South Carolina. His father was a grandson of Baron Ludwig Knoop, one of the leading industrialists of the Russian Empire in his lifetime.He was the father of the conductor George Alexander Albrecht and of the politician Ernst Albrecht, and the paternal grandfather of the designated President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (née Albrecht) and the conductor Marc Albrecht.