• The love story between the German billionaire and the former Afghan refugee

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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 01 September 2019Love suddenly. Just that love that overwhelms everything, revolutionizes life, breaks down social conventions, knows no territorial boundaries and nationality whatsoever and like an impetuous karst river, suddenly erupts and defeats constituted orders and barriers redesigning the quiet and somewhat monotonous everyday. This is exactly when one least expects it. It seems like a dream but it is the coup de theater that life has unexpectedly reserved for reality. Reality that changes flavor and color and makes a jump to the top.

Well, that is exactly what happened to the two protagonists of the story that is making the rounds of the world revealed by the most widespread newspaper in Germany, Bild Zeitung .

History
She is an attractive forty-seven-year-old German, Katja Albrecht, wife of the billionaire and king of discount supermarkets Aldi Nord, sixty-nine-year-old Theo Albrecht Jr., one of the ten richest men in Germany boasting assets of about 15.7 billion euros.

He is a thirty-one-year-old former Afghan political refugee, Tareq S., who fled as a child in 1996, along with his family from the Taliban Afghanistan to Germany. Here the Afghan boy and his family were able to rebuild their lives. After graduating from high school, Tareq started working as a computer technician.

As in the most classic romance novels, Cupid's arrow hits the two protagonists of the story in 2014, when Katja, still the wife of Theo Junior, meets the young Afghan man because he is called into the home of the billionaire couple to install a computer system. Love at first sight bursts and after a year Katja leaves her husband to live with Tareq. A child is born who now has a year and a half. Child who is portrayed among parents in a photograph on Bild Zeitung in traditional Afghan costume. "The Afghan traditions of her husband also play an important role in her education," the German newspaper said. The woman is radiant and very elegant in the blue dress she wears equipped with pearl earrings. The man smiles happily.

The billionaire told a confidant from the Albrecht family circle: "She was bored with her life. Tareq was friendly, loose and casual," the source said, "Katja's life was so boring, between body-guard, privacy , family obligations: he was looking for a change. Tareq was kind and carefree, and certainly he saw that he had a chance with her. "

Tareq tells
The former political refugee arrived in Germany with his family from Kabul in 1996 and initially lived with his family in a hostel for asylum seekers in Aschaffenburg, where he was able to attend school. After that the family moved to Essen, where the boy graduated from high school. In 2003, says Bild, Tareq participated in a literary competition. In 2008 he told that "of the 160 asylum seekers who were with me nobody had maturity: just me and my brothers. It's something I'm very proud of". The Afghan boy wanted to study in Cologne, take a master's degree in London and become a sound engineer, but fate decided otherwise.

He is now engaged with Katja in the construction of a family villa in Meerbusch, near Dusseldorf, in North Rhine Westphalia, where Tareq's parents will also move.

Theo Albrecht Jr.
Resources are not lacking. Bild speaks of remarkable figures that Theo Albrecht Jr. - an austere man, as in the tradition of the Aldi dynasty, who rarely shows up in public - bestows on his ex-consort, writing that "After the separation, Theo Albrecht Jr. continues to support financially Katja generously ".

Theo Albrecht Jr. is owner together with his sister-in-law, Babette, his brother's widow, of the largest discount supermarket empire in the world, Aldi Nord. Theo Jr. and Babette Albrecht are currently building a new corporate headquarters in Essen. 100,000 square meters are planned, offices for 800 employees with fitness pavilion and nursery.

Since 1913, business has been going very well for the Albrecht family, that is, since Theo Senior (father of Theo Jr.) and his brother Karl in 1946 turned it into a small supermarket in its mother's store. In the 1960s the two brothers decided to separate the supermarket chain into two, giving rise to Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud, with offices in Germany and in Europe without competing.