Albert Komp (born Johann Paul Albert Komp; 27 January 1845[1] [2] – 4 April 1910)[3] was a German-American painter who was active in New York City communist circles in the mid-nineteenth century.
Komp was born in 1845 in Prüm, Prussia, to Paul Komp and Anna Catharina Wilhelmine Hirfeld.[2] He emigrated in 1864.[4] He became a U.S. citizen in 1874 in Philadelphia, where he died in 1910.[5]
In 1857, Komp joined Friedrich Sorge, Fritz Jacobi and Fr Kamm in setting up the New York Communist Club.[6] He was a bank manager.[7] He was also active in the American Workers League, alongside James McGuire and Ida B. Davis.[8]
Komp was in correspondence with Karl Marx for a number of years, requesting literature such as The Poverty of Philosophy and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung be sent to him in New York.[9]
Komp was a childhood friend of Joseph Dietzgen, and in 1861 Ditzgen left the manuscript of his article Schwarz oder Weiss with him when he left for Germany.[10]