The Flick Affair was a German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to political contributions by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties "for the cultivation of the political landscape". Otto Graf Lambsdorff, then minister for economic affairs, was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from Flick. A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... Otto Graf Lambsdorff, born December 20, 1926 in Aachen, Germany, is a German politician with the Free Democratic Party. ...
The magazine Der Spiegel was involved in the uncovering of the scandal. Photo of the cover of the first issue of Der Spiegel (1/1947) Der Spiegel (German for The Mirror) is Germanys biggest and most influential weekly magazine, published in Hamburg, with a circulation of around one million per week. ...
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