In his work for Flick KG, he was responsible for the donation of about 26 million Deutsche Mark to all the major German political parties and their associated foundations between 1969 and 1981.
As a result of this scandal, he was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment on probation and 550,000 DM financial penalty for tax evasion.
Brauchitsch attended school in Berlin and Bad Tölz, where he was a classmate of Friedrich Karl Flick.
[5] Sums between 40,000 and 250,000 DM were directly paid to politicians like Franz Josef Strauss, Willy Brandt and CDU bursar Walther Leisler Kiep.
After both had suffered from long and severe illnesses, Brauchitsch and his wife committed suicide together in Zürich, aided by the Swiss pro-euthanasia group EXIT.