Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski

(April 5, 1866–December 17, 1929) was an Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb. He was a well-known economics expert and published a noted article in the "Bankarstvo" magazine in 1924. Between 1905 and 1910, Alexander was the city representative in the Zagreb City Assembly. In 1909 he became the adviser of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Alexander worked in and was a member of more than 60 associations in Croatia. He was the councillor, vice president ,and honorary president of the Commercial Chamber. He also worked as treasurer and later as a vice president of the Commercial Home in Zagreb, and as an honorary vice president of the Association of Traders for Croatia and Slavonija. Alexander was also vice president of the Bank for Commerce and Industry" and a board member of the Croatian Trust Bank" and the Croatian Commercial Bank. From 1885 he was the first vice president of the Croatian commercial association Merkur; from 1892 he was association’s president, and in 1910 he was honoured as its lifetime president. Within Merkur he advocated development of vocational education. Alexander was major stockholder of the First Croatian Machinery Factory and Iron Foundry in Zagreb. He also encouraged tourism development in Croatia and was the major shareholder of Zagreb’s Schlesinger Palace(now Hotel Palace. Alexander was member of the society "Narodni rad - društvo židovskih asimilanata i anticionista u Hrvatskoj" (People’s Work – Society of Jewish Assimilates and anti-Zionists in Croatia).