Aldi may appear as if they were a single enterprise with certain store brands or when negotiating with contractor companies. The individual groups were originally owned and managed jointly by the brothers. Karl Albrecht, who died in 2014, retained ownership of Aldi Süd with a personal wealth of €17.2 billion that made him the richest man in Germany. The co-owners of Aldi Nord, Berthold and Theo Albrecht Jr. came close behind at €16 billion. Dieter Schwarz, owner of Lidl and Kaufland came in third, with a fortune of €11.5 billion. Aldi started to expand internationally in 1967, when Aldi Süd acquired
Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen ("Karl Albrecht Nikolaus Leo Gratianus von Österreich", later "Karl Albrecht Habsburg-Lothringen", since 1919 – "Karol Olbracht Habsburg-Lotaryński"; (Pula, 18 December 1888 – Östervik, near Stockholm, 17 March 1951). He was an Austrian archduke, the oldest son of Archduke Charles Stephen and Archduchess Maria Theresia, Princess of Tuscany. He was a landowner in Żywiec, a colonel of artillery in both the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army (cavalry) and the Polish Army, and the 1,175th knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1910, etc. In 1918 and again in 1939 he became