In 1883, Albert married the daughter of a Christian cloth merchant, and while the wedding was a Protestant affair, he did not convert. Despite Albert’s financial success, he was always viewed as somewhat of an outsider, and his refusal to become a Christian likely played into that.
Religion aside, Albert’s profitable schemes at his family business quickly caught the attention of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which hired him in 1886. Not long after, Albert organized and oversaw a pleasure sailing aboard a large luxury passenger vessel, thus...
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