Dieter Bock (3 March 1939 – 12 May 2010) was a German lawyer and tax consultant turned businessman.
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 1988 he acquired ten percent of the shares in the construction company Philipp Holzmann,[3] a little later he bought into Dywidag and Tilbury Douglas in order to sell all his holdings a short time later at a high profit.
His modest appearance contributed to Bock's special reputation: suits from C&A , plastic bags instead of briefcases, pasta his favorite meal (with which he drank Château Pétrus wines).
[7][8] Bock choked to death in the Atlantic Kempinski luxury hotel in Hamburg at the age of 71.