Overview

• About 100 cartons of investigative files were unearthed during an Essen police basement cleanup and formally handed over to the NRW State Archive on July 25
• The collection includes the 1971 abduction dossier of Aldi co-founder Theo Albrecht alongside unsolved homicide files dating back to 1927 and cases from the Nazi era
• Sabine Eibl and Landesarchiv President Frank Bischoff have begun conservation work that involves stabilizing documents, removing metal fasteners and digitizing records
• Police President Andreas Stüve confirmed the rediscovered Albrecht files contain no indications of further accomplices or new information on the missing half of the seven-million-Mark ransom
• Public access to the restored archives will follow archive law provisions, enforcing a ten-year privacy restriction after the death of individuals mentioned in the records