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Volume VI · Page 179
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Contemporaneous Documents on Flick and the Flick Concern |
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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-3020 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 5 |
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| PAMPHLET
PUBLISHED BY THE FLICK CONCERN, 1943, CONCERNING DEFENDANT FLICK AND THE HISTORY OF THE FLICK CONCERN¹ |
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| Friedrich Flick | |
| Friedrich Flick was born on 10
July in the Siegerland; he comes from a long-established Siegerlaender family.
His father was a farmer who, however, had close ties with the Siegerland ore
mining industry, in which at that time the guild tradition still prevailed.
Through him the growing boy, who already attracted attention during his school
years, by his serious, forward-looking manner, became at an early age familiar
with the world of the local iron industry, so that it automatically became the
goal of his vocational aspirations. After attending the Siegerland Realgymnasium [high school], he commenced his commercial training in 1902 at the "Bremerhuette" [foundry] in Weidenau. In 1902-05 followed his military service in Kassel. Thereupon, Flick attended a 2-year course at the Business College [Handelshochschule] in Cologne, in order to perfect his vocational armor in a special, and at that time hardly customary, manner. After passing the final examination [Diplom-Examen] with distinction, Flick returned to the "Bremerhuette" in 1907. Here he became a Prokurist² at the age of 24, an extraordinary occurrence at that time in an enterprise of such size. Five years later, on 1 May 1913, Flick entered the Vorstand [managing board] of the Iron Industry, at the Menden and Schwerte A.G., and thus attained his first independent sphere of work. In the same year he married Miss Marie Schuss, daughter of City Councillor Robert Schuss, a member of an old Siegen family of merchants. Three sons were born to the couple in the course of the years. The family was formed, which in the coming years of struggle |
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¹ This pamphlet was published by the Flick Concern in connection with the celebration of Flick's 60th birthday.
² Company or corporation official with power of attorney.
