Infamous kidnappers take tip of blank millions to grave

Germany’s Bild daily reported on Wednesday that, with a men’s new deaths, a section had sealed on a 1971 abduction of Theo Albrecht, a billionaire co-founder of bonus supermarket sequence Aldi.

One of a ex-cons, Paul Kron, had upheld divided in an aged caring home in Jan aged 87, and his former confederate Heinz Joachim Ollenburg had died in Feb during a age of 93.

Their abduction of Albrecht was one of a many fantastic crimes of a kind in post-war Germany.

They kept a millionaire dark divided for 17 days in a habit in a western city of Düsseldorf, afterwards set him giveaway in lapse for 7 million deutschmarks (€3.5 million).

Kron, afterwards already a convicted criminal nicknamed Diamond Paul, was fast held after profitable in a emporium with a 500-deutschmark check from a release money.

Ollenburg, his former lawyer, had fled to Mexico though was arrested there and extradited.

Both were condemned to 8 and a half years’ prison, and they kept low profiles after they were released.

Albrecht, who was emotionally scarred by a kidnapping, mostly withdrew from open life. He died in 2010 aged 88.

Regarding a ransom, Kron claimed Ollenburg, a smarts behind a abduction, had usually given him several thousand deutschmarks.

Ollenberg insisted they had separate a income uniformly and returned his half – withdrawal about 3.5 million deutschmarks missing.

Bild recounted that it had interviewed Kron several years ago.

Kron, afterwards vital on a small state pension, had told a daily about a blank cash: “Honestly, we don’t know. we usually got 10,000 deutschmarks from Ollenburg. He was cleverer than me.”

Bild pronounced it had also searched out Ollenburg, who was vital nearby a Polish limit and who refused to speak to a newspaper.

Local townspeople, pronounced Bild, favourite to report that “he’s stashed divided a income in Switzerland”.