Alfred Cassirer (29 July 1875 – 11 July 1932) was a German engineer, entrepreneur and art collector.
Life
Born in Görlitz, Cassirer came from the entrepreneurial Cassirer family and was the youngest son of Louis Cassirer and a brother of Paul, Hugo and Richard Cassirer. Together with his brother Hugo Cassirer and his uncle Julius Cassirer owner of the company in Berlin-Hakenfelde. Cassirer was also the second representative of Section I of the "Maschinenbau- und Kleineisenindustrie-".
He was also an active hot air ballooner, co-founder of the Kaiserlicher Aero-Club at the Johannisthal Air Field near Berlin and won 1st prize in Class 3 in the 1908 International Race with his balloon "Hewald" in the endurance flight. He was also a co-partner of the .<ref>Gesellschafter.''' In Jahrbuch der Motorluftschiff-Studiengesellschaft, vol. 3 (1908), .</ref>=
On 15 July 1912, Alfred Cassirer married Hannah Sotschek (1887-1974), who, after divorcing around 1923, married Leo Blumenreich in a second marriage. The marriage produced the philosopher Eva Cassirer (1920-2009).
