Career
He was a leading researcher into the cure for leukemia. One of his patients was Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick. In 1935 he and his family fled Nazi Germany to England, where he established a medical practice, with a clinic in Harley Street.
He died in 1950.
Alfred Alexander was married to Henny Alexander and had four children: Bella Jakobi, Elsie Harding, Hanns Alexander and Paul Alexander, all of whom lived in England after leaving Nazi Germany. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his medical service at Saverne during World War I.
As father to the war crimes investigator, Hanns Alexander, Alfred Alexander is featured in Hanns and Rudolf (book) by Thomas Harding.