The Flick Affair was a German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to political contributions by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties "for the cultivation of the political landscape". A conglomerate is a large Company that consists of seemingly unrelated Business sections Otto Graf Lambsdorff, then minister for economic affairs, was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from Flick. Otto Graf Lambsdorff (born December 20 1926) is a German politician with the Free Democratic Party.
The magazine Der Spiegel was involved in the uncovering of the scandal. Der Spiegel (pronounced /deːɐ ˈʃpiːɡəl/ German for "The Mirror" is a German weekly Magazine, published in Hamburg