The Flick family is a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty, heir to an industrial empire that formerly embraced holdings in companies involved in coal, steel and a minority holding in Daimler AG. The Flick family is one of the richest industrial families worldwide.
Friedrich Flick (1883–1972) was the founder of the dynasty, establishing a major industrial conglomerate during the Weimar Republic, and who was one of the world's wealthiest people by the time of his death in 1972. He left his empire to his son Friedrich Karl Flick (1927–2006).
The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, one of the world's leading modern art collections, is named in honour of Friedrich Christian Flick, an art collector and grandson of Friedrich Flick, and the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition is named for Donatella Flick (née Princess Missikoff).
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