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Berthold Albrecht (14 August 1954 in
Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...
– 21 November 2012 in
Chur '' Chur (locally) or ; ; ; ; ; ; or ; , and . is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, town of the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of the Grisons and lies in the Alpine Rhine, Grisonian Rhine Valley, where ...
) was a German businessman and one of Germany's wealthiest men. He was co-owner (with his brother Theo Albrecht Jr.) of the
Aldi Nord Aldi (German pronunciation: ), stylised as ALDI, is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and T ...
chain of discount
supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. Strictly speaking, a supermarket is larger and has a wider selecti ...
s, which they inherited upon the death of their father,
Theo Albrecht Theodor Paul Albrecht (; 28 March 1922 – 24 July 2010) was a German entrepreneur. He established the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Karl Albrecht. In 2010, Theo was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the 31st richest person in the wo ...
, in July 2010. Together, the two brothers had an estimated net worth of . Albrecht was the chairman of the Markus Foundation. Additionally, addition, he owned Weba-Holding GmbH.


Personal

His uncle,
Karl Albrecht Karl Hans Albrecht (; 20 February 1920 – 16 July 2014) was a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He was the richest person in Germany for many years. In February 2014, he was ranked the 2 ...
, owned Aldi Süd and was Germany's wealthiest person up until his death in 2014. Berthold and his wife, Babette Albrecht, had three daughters and one son. The latter, Nicolay Albrecht, accused his mother and three sisters of embezzling money from the family trust in September 2020.


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