Albert Ehrenzweig was Professor at the University of Vienna specializing in insurance law. He was appointed to the Ministry of Interior in 1915, and moved up to head the Department for Private Insurance. There he composed the bill on private insurance that received parliamentary acceptance. Following the 1938 takeover by the Nazis, Ehrenzweig emigrated to the U.S.A. He was appointed Professor of Law at the University of California in Berkeley. After the defeat of Germany, he returned to Vienna. He was appointed Honorary Professor of Civil Law and Civil Procedure at the University of Vienna.
Albert Ehrenzweig was the author of a number of books, among them Die Rechtsordung der Vertragsversicherung (1929), in which he summarized his views on insurance. This book was a major reference for insurance legislation.