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Re: Esoteric Lego history question
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Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:08:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jim Hughes wrote:
> > 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 we know,
> > assumed the company. Does anyone know the names of his other
> > children? Were they connected with the company?
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> GKC had at least one sister, Ulla.
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> > 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?
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> Don't know if they were his sisters on the boxes; but his other sister's name is
> Hanne.
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> Hope this helps,
> Kelly
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. One of the points
in the summary was that Godtfred considered selling Lego after the tragic
death of his daughter in a car accident. Does anyone know when this was?
I need to get me one of those 50 Years of Play books!
Again, thanks
--Jim
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| (...) Well, machine traslators don't do a great job, but (URL) this article> seems to indicate it was October 1969. You might be able to get a better translation from someone here that knows Danish. ROSCO (19 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) 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; (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.general)
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