Albert Köhl
Julius Albert Köhl was a French-Swedish chef de cuisine.
Biography
Albert Koehl was born in 1879, and grew up in central Strasbourg, Alsace, then the German Empire, to Xavier Koehl, and Caroline, as well as uncle to Edouard Dieffenbach. Married to Carolina in 1912, he was brother-in-law of John Nordlander. Besides education in Strasbourg, and military service in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army in Munich, his apprenticeship was carried out in Bavaria, France, Austria, and Italy.File:Strand hotell 1914.jpg|thumb|Strand Hotel on Blasieholmen in Stockholm, Sweden.
After chef service at European restaurants including at Grand Hôtel 1906–1912 in Stockholm, Sweden, together with its former maître d'hôtel Julius Grönlund, he co-founded Strand Hotel for the 1912 Summer Olympics, operating as chef de cuisine 1912–1955. Offering Stockholm's largest banquet hall, adjoined to the Bååt palace on Blasieholmen, Strand rivaled contemporary Stockholm as preference for habitués such as Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Erik Harald Zetterström, along with international royals, politicians, and artists.
Naturalized in 1922, he was a keen hunter, fisherman, and member of the Odd Fellows. He died in 1954, buried at Norra begravningsplatsen. His grandson, Dan Koehl, son of engineer Gösta Albert Köhl, is an elephant trainer.
Literature
- Köksalmanack,
- Strand Hotel, Andreas Theve, Laszlo Trifunovics,
Category:Businesspeople from Strasbourg
Category:German emigrants to Sweden
Category:French chefs
Category:1879 births
Category:20th-century French people
Category:People from Alsace
Category:Swedish chefs
Category:Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen