The Flick family are a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty, heirs to an industrial empire embracing coal, steel and the DaimlerChrysler company. DaimlerChrysler AG (Xetra: DCX), NYSE: DCX, has its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer. ...

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. The Flick family are a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty, heirs to an industrial empire embracing coal, steel and the DaimlerChrysler company. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic IPA (German Weimarer Republik). ... Look up Nazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

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. The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

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. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deutsche Bank AG NYSE: DB (German for German Bank) is a multinational bank operating worldwide and employing almost 70,000 people (2004). ...

Controversy

The 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. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Triona Giblin Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

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. General view showing Grossmünster church. ... Seattle Central Library, designed by Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas (born November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch architect, former journalist and screenwriter who studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ...

Notable members of the Flick family

• Friedrich Flick (10 July 1883 - 20 July 1972) - founder of the dynasty and Nazi war criminal

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• Otto-Ernst Flick, his children:
  • Dagmar Gräfin Vitzthum
  • Gert Rudolph Flick "Muck Flick"
  • Friedrich Christian Flick "Mick Flick"
• Rudolf Flick (born 1919, died during WW II)
• Friedrich Karl Flick - industrialist, involved in a German political scandal; his children:
  • Victoria-Katharina
  • Karl-Friedrich

Other Flick family members: Otto-Ernst Flick is the oldest of three sons born to Marie and Friedrich Flick in 1916 in Germany. ... Friedrich Karl Flick is a German industrialist and billionaire. ...

• Donatella Flick - socialite and philanthropist, former wife of Gert Rudolph Flick