The Flick Affair was a German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to political contributions by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

, to various political parties "for the cultivation of the political landscape". Otto Graf Lambsdorff

Otto Graf Lambsdorff

Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff, known as Otto Graf Lambsdorff, was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party.- Biography :...

, then minister for economic affairs, was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from Flick.

The magazine Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...

was involved in the uncovering of the scandal.

See also

• 1999 CDU contributions scandal
  1999 CDU contributions scandal
  In late 1999, it was discovered that the German Christian Democratic Union political party had accepted illegal donations while under the control of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the 1990s...
  
  
• Friedrich Karl Flick
  Friedrich Karl Flick
  Friedrich Karl Flick was a German-Austrian industrialist and billionaire....