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Flick family
The Flick family are a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty, heirs to an industrial empire embracing coal, steel and the DaimlerChrysler company.
Friedrich Flick was the founder of the dynasty after establishing a major industrial conglomerate during the Weimar Republic. He became a member and funder of the Nazi party, benefitting from the aryanization of Jewish property, and became one of Hitler's major armaments producers. His factories became notorious for using slave labour and concentration camp inmates.
He was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and served three years of a seven year prison sentence. He went on to rebuild his business empire, becoming one of the world's wealthiest people by the time of his death in 1972.
In 1986 the Flick family sold most of its industrial holdings to Deutsche Bank for $2.5 billion (£1.4 billion). Friedrich Flick's grandsons, known as "Muck" and "Mick", became renowned for their playboy lifestyles.
ControversyThe Flick family has courted controversy for its Nazi legacy and a refusal to pay compensation to wartime victims.
In 1997 Oxford University rejected a £350,000 donation from Gert Rudolf Flick to endow a professorship in Human Thought at Balliol College, Oxford, after a campaign by university staff and the Jewish community.
The attempt by Friedrich Christian Flick to display his art collection in Zurich in a museum to be built by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, was rejected by the Swiss authorities. In September 2004 the collection was exhibited in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery against the protest of Jewish groups.
Notable members of the Flick familyChildren of Friedrich Flick:
- Ernst Otto Flick
- Friedrich Karl Flick - industrialist, involved in a German political scandal
Children of Ernst Otto Flick:
- Dagmar Gräfin Vitzham
- Gert Rudolph Flick "Muck Flick"
- Friedrich Christian Flick "Mick Flick"
Other Flick family members:
- Donatella Flick - socialite and philanthropist, former wife of Gert Rudolph Flick
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