Dieter Bock
Dieter Bock (3 March 1939 – 12 May 2010) was a German lawyer and tax consultant turned businessman. At the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest Germans, with a fortune of £500 million. Bock was the son of a director of the AGFA film factory in Wolfen. In 1953, his family fled from East Germany and settled in Munich. He studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg. In 1973 Bock founded a tax consultancy and began to invest in real estate and investments. In 1974, looking for business premises to rent, he persuaded his would-be landlords to sell him an old building in Schwabing. He converted the building into a commercial building, where he initially housed his company Bilanz und Steuer AG (bistag), but sold it a few years later at a high profit. The company still exists today with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and a branch in Halle (Saale). In the following years, Bock switched to real estate trading and stock speculation and expanded his activities to include The Netherlands, the United States and South Africa. In 1986 he consolidated his companies in the real estate holding Advanta Management. In 1988 he