An annotated catalogue of Albanian arachnids held in the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) Berlin is presented, including the type of the spider Zoropsis oertzeni Dahl, 1901. Most of the material was collected from the coastal city of Vlora in c. 1887 by the German naturalist Eberhard von Oertzen (1856–1909). This makes it one of the oldest arachnological collections from Albania. Biographical notes on von Oertzen are also included. Most of the MfN species have previously been recorded for Albania, but we provide here a new record of Sitticus rupicola (C. L. Koch, 1837) as well as locality data and collection numbers for all MfN voucher specimens. Of particular interest is the re-identification of two spiders as Dysdera corfuensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988; including the first record of the female from Albania. The bat tick Ixodes vespertilionis C. L. Koch, 1844 is labelled as Albanian, and would be a new record for the country but the locality is more likely to be in modernday Serbia.