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Re: Esoteric Lego history question
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Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:56:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jim Hughes wrote:
> Expert Lego historians:
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> I have a rather esoteric question that I have been unable to answer
> despite rather extensive searching.
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> Tracing the ownership of Lego by the Kirk Christiansens we have
> Ole who had several children, including Godtfred, who, as we know,
> assumed the company. Does anyone know the names of his other
> children? Were they connected with the company?
According to the book "50 years of play":
"Toward the ends of the 1940s all of Ole Kirk's four sons were employed at the
factory: in addition to Godtfred, there was Karl Georg, a qualified carpenter,
who was in charge of plastics production; Gerhardt, trained as a dairyman, now
head of wood-products manufacturing; and the oldest son, Johannes, who carried
out deliveries by truck."
The four brothers were all involved with the company, but went their own ways in
1961, with GKC acquiring the majority holding in the company at that time.
GKC had at least one sister, Ulla.
> Godtfred had 3 children, a boy Kjeld, and 2 girls, Gunhild and another
> who died in an auto accident> Does anyone know the name of the other
> girl and when she died? Early boxes show Kjeld in a white shirt and in
> some cases Kjeld and 2 girls, were these his sisters?
Don't know if they were his sisters on the boxes; but his other sister's name is
Hanne.
Hope this helps,
Kelly
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| (...) Kelly: This is very helpful. I am getting closer to a complete family tree. Looking at Wiencek's World of Lego toys it appears that the early boxes are in fact Kjeld and his 2 sisters. In 1996 Kjeld won a distinguished Family business award. (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Expert Lego historians: I have a rather esoteric question that I have been unable to answer despite rather extensive searching. Tracing the ownership of Lego by the Kirk Christiansens we have Ole who had several children, including Godtfred, who, as (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.general)
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