Industrialist. He graduated in business economics from the University of Munich in 1957 and joined his father’s Flick Enterprises. He was named head of the business in 1975, building the Flick Group’s stakes in Daimler-Benz, Feldmuhle, Dynamit Nobel and other automotive, paper and chemical ventures, into a worldwide conglomerate. He was believed to be Austria’s richest man and one of the wealthiest in the world when he sold the Flick Group to the Deutsche Bank, Germany in 1985, for $8.6 billion. (bio by: John “J-Cat” Griffith)