Friedrich Flick

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Friedrich Flick (10 July 1883 – 20 July 1972) was a German

After the

During the Nazi regime, Flick's businesses profited greatly from the process of Aryanization under which Jews were expropriated by being forced to sell their businesses, sometimes at a fraction of their market worth. Flick formally joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1937, and in 1938 he was named a Military Economic Leader (Wehrwirtschaftsführer).^[2]

Flick's enterprises were instrumental in Nazi Germany's rearmament efforts. After the launching of the Second World War, Flick's companies employed an estimated 48,000 forced laborers in his coal mines, steel plants and munitions works. It is estimated that some 80 percent of these workers may have perished.^[1]

After the end of the war, Flick was arrested on 13 June 1945 and put on trial for war crimes on 19 April 1947. The

The defendants in this case were Friedrich Flick and five other high-ranking directors of Flick's group of companies, Flick

Later career

Flick was released early on 25 August 1950, due to the institution of good time credits.

Daimler-Benz and held large amounts of shares in Feldmühle, Dynamit Nobel

, Buderus and Krauss-Maffei.

He was awarded numerous honours, including the Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1963 and the Bavarian Order of Merit, and was an honorary senator of Technische Universität Berlin. At the time of his death, his industrial conglomerate encompassed 330 companies and around 300,000 employees.

He died in Konstanz on 20 July 1972. His heirs were his son Friedrich Karl Flick and his grandson Friedrich Christian Flick, who established the modern art gallery Friedrich Christian Flick Collection.

See also

• Nuremberg trials
• Alfried Krupp
• IG Farben
• Slave labour
• War criminals

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Wistrich 1982, p. 76.
2. ^ ^{a b} Zentner & Bedürftig 1997, p. 273.
3. ISBN 978-0-19-165286-8
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Sources

• Wistrich, Robert (1982). Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Macmillan Publishing Co.
  ISBN 0-02-630600-X
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• Zentner, Christian; Bedürftig, Friedemann (1997) [1991].
  ISBN 978-0-306-80793-0
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Further reading

• de Jong, David (2022). Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties (Hardback). Boston: Mariner Books.
  ISBN 9781328497888
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• Frei, Norbert; Ahrens, Ralf; Osterloh, Jörg; Schanetzky, Tim (2009). Flick. Der Konzern. Die Familie. Die Macht (in German). München: Blessing Verlag.
  ISBN 978-3-89667-400-5
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• Ogger, Günter (1971). Friedrich Flick der Grosse (in German) (3 ed.). Bern-München-Wien: Scherz.
• ISBN 978-3-8353-0219-8
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• Ramge, Thomas (2004). Die Flicks. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte um Geld, Macht und Politik (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag.
  ISBN 3-593-37404-8
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External links

• Newspaper clippings about Friedrich Flick in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW