Johann Christoph Albers

Johann Christoph Albers was a German businessman. He was the eldest of five children od the Bremen merchant Anton Albers and his wife Sophie Catharine Bussmann. He further expanded commercial activites of his father, and made the House of Albers in Bremen one of the decisive trading houses for centuries. During his lifetime, he also served as Ältermann of the merchants in Bremen.

In 1763 he married Maria Catharina Retberg and established a close link between the two families. The marriage had an economic importance, because the Retberg family was also an influential trading house in Bremen and Lippstadt. Albers had twelve children, a number of which later occupied influential positions - Anton Albers (merchant and later painter in Lausanne), Johann Abraham Albers (prominent city physician in Bremen), Johann Heinrich Albers (merchant in London and later art collector in Bremen), Johann Christoph Albers (merchant and official in Bremen).